Day three and four I get progressively swollen. Day one and two I refused to look into my mouth. So by day three when I do, it's gross
I tentatively gargled and waterpiked, then used my ortho brush head to manually brush. I felt a lot better after that and now i do that at least 3x a day after medication. Which I hate. yux yux yux.It's hard to look inside because of the swelling but I see the blue stitches and the elastics all the way in. I expect the swelling to start going down today (day four).
The way my teeth are banded and how my mouth is small to start with makes it a pain to gargle. It's easy enough to suck in water through my teeth or syringe it in through the sides but crazy to push same liquids out. There's also no space to squeeze in any pills of any size. Not even through the back behind my molars.
I'm super lazy. Finding the Ensure Plus was a godsend >.< I walked past the pharmacy on the way from the ward to the taxi stand and they waved at me! Haha. They were in 250ml servings and I bought 12 and lugged them home.
I realise that I OVERATE for day two and three. I bought Ensure PLUS which is 1.5kca per pack of 250ml and I had two of that on day two and three. No wonder I didn't feel hungry enough for a third pack! Today I will take about 1.5 packs and drink more soya and yoghurt drinks as well as apple juice.
They are a bit thicker than milk but not quite milkshakey. And they were in flavours i dig: fruits of the forest, SPAM SPAM SPAM and raspberry. I still have tins of normal powdered Ensure that I will use next week. (These are the normal 230kcal/230ml kind)
I'm stretching my mouth periodically. Weird tingling, aches and pains throughout but despite the numbness and swelling, feeling is there. My tongue feels complete normal and mutilated by the molar band hooks but there's nothing to be done about it.
My lips are still peeling. It's like, wow there's a lot of skin to peel off >.< Liberal use of vaseline means it doesn't hurt though.
<warning: bowel movement discussion ahead>
And though I've been to pee plenty, I haven't had to poop yet. Which makes sense since I've not had solid food for almost 4 days now. I tend to feel dehydrated so I drink more apple juice or soya milk or yoghurt drinks.
Can't wait till Monday when I hopefully get disbanded!!
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