Recovey time

Well, now it is all about recovering and healing. Sarah was a trooper and came thru her surgery really well. The hardest thing I did was have to let her go to a total stranger and make her way around that corner and lose control of my daughter. We were hugging each other so tight and I know she told me at least five times in jus

t a few seconds she loved me. She had an IV where she got antibiotics and steroids (for swelling) for the first 24 hours. Morphine by needle for the first 12 hours or so and then pain is manageable with just extra strength Tylenol (liquid). The swelling and bruising is harder for her to deal with. She is embarrassed at how she looks, the first thing she said when she saw herself was that she had a double chin. She said she will make sure she is never obese because she knows now what she would look like. (like that could happen) Today I do not think she is anymore swollen than yesterday, so maybe this is the worst, they said the peak would be at 72 hrs. She had x-rays yesterday, and what a difference in the before and after, she wanted copies but they can't do that so I took pics of the screen. The xrays are the only pics she will let me pot, and I understand that. Have a look a

t the front teeth, that is where you really see the difference. Now, the real challenge of keeping her from losing too much weight while her mouth is elasticized shut for 4 weeks. Kind of freak us both out when the give you the scissors in a sterile package to carry around with you in case of and emergency to open her mouth (ie:

choking) Here's the pics.

This is the before:

Here is the after:

She is much cuter in person!