Thursday, July 19, 2007
Jaw Breaker Series - Aftermath
Ok, so it has been a week since my Op... what has been happening so far?
1) I am a drug lord. Yup, 3 times a day I have to pound my meds in a mortar and pestle.. before mixing it with a bit of milo and downing it. I pound 1 tablet, then open 2 capsules to further grind them. I'm literally cooking, in all sense of the word! hahaha. The initial part was quite bad.. I couldn't take the bitterness. I also had half the mind to snort them up my nose.... (no kidding). But the milo helps.. and after taking it so many times, I kinda got used to the taste... However, there' s still a whole lot more meds left.. *sob*
2) I have been hallucinating. More specifically.. food. Being on a liquid diet, I get hungry every 2 hours. So... u can imagine the unsatiable hunger I keep having.. and frankly, it can never get satisfied. And for someone who hardly dreams, I have been dreaming about food. Just last night, I was dreaming about the delicious Nasi Padang near my workplace... The bergadil, the assam, sayur lodeh, tahu telor, beef rendang, the sambal brinjal... wah lau....... *droool*... oh, and my thoughts keep switching to food once every few minutes... need to be strong and keep clear mind... OHM...... meditate.....
*Note to self, do not play Cooking Mama after a jaw Op...
3) Liquid diet. I can only take clear liquids. I thought I would be able to drink cream soups, which would make me fuller, but I was wrong. The good people at Campbells add quite a bit of ingredients to their soups. I mean, for example, Cream of Chicken. The normal person won't think that it has anything inside, but trust me, there are a lot of small strands of chicken there. This has caused quite a few problems for me. The splint in my mouth is Z shaped. So imagine that my teeth are biting down on this. Then, my teeth are bound with rubber bands... And with that, we have a filter. It's no different to very fine wire mesh before a drain pipe. So imagine this... if u keep pouring soup down, it's bound to get clogged somewhat, due to the chicken strands. It's like, every 3 spoons, I have to rinse with 1 mouth of water. And after every 3 rinses, I have to go to the toilet to get rid of the stuff stuck in the bands. So I end up not drinking a lot of soup at all... darn... so yeah... now lunch and dinner are mostly clear soups. If not, it's just soya bean milk or chocomalt. This does nothing to quell my hunger.
4) Back, Neck and Headaches. Been suffering from this for the last 1 week. I guess largely due to swelling and maybe water retention too? Doesn't help that I can't sleep on my pillow... It seems to add strain to my jaw, resulting to some aching.
5) Pain. Yawning. Yeah... the mouth is still used to doing certain things. So when yawning, it does a reflex snap action. It does nothing to the jaw. But it does something to my teeth. My teeth are currently bound... so it's like someone ripping my teeth out... SHIT.....
1) I am a drug lord. Yup, 3 times a day I have to pound my meds in a mortar and pestle.. before mixing it with a bit of milo and downing it. I pound 1 tablet, then open 2 capsules to further grind them. I'm literally cooking, in all sense of the word! hahaha. The initial part was quite bad.. I couldn't take the bitterness. I also had half the mind to snort them up my nose.... (no kidding). But the milo helps.. and after taking it so many times, I kinda got used to the taste... However, there' s still a whole lot more meds left.. *sob*
2) I have been hallucinating. More specifically.. food. Being on a liquid diet, I get hungry every 2 hours. So... u can imagine the unsatiable hunger I keep having.. and frankly, it can never get satisfied. And for someone who hardly dreams, I have been dreaming about food. Just last night, I was dreaming about the delicious Nasi Padang near my workplace... The bergadil, the assam, sayur lodeh, tahu telor, beef rendang, the sambal brinjal... wah lau....... *droool*... oh, and my thoughts keep switching to food once every few minutes... need to be strong and keep clear mind... OHM...... meditate.....
*Note to self, do not play Cooking Mama after a jaw Op...
3) Liquid diet. I can only take clear liquids. I thought I would be able to drink cream soups, which would make me fuller, but I was wrong. The good people at Campbells add quite a bit of ingredients to their soups. I mean, for example, Cream of Chicken. The normal person won't think that it has anything inside, but trust me, there are a lot of small strands of chicken there. This has caused quite a few problems for me. The splint in my mouth is Z shaped. So imagine that my teeth are biting down on this. Then, my teeth are bound with rubber bands... And with that, we have a filter. It's no different to very fine wire mesh before a drain pipe. So imagine this... if u keep pouring soup down, it's bound to get clogged somewhat, due to the chicken strands. It's like, every 3 spoons, I have to rinse with 1 mouth of water. And after every 3 rinses, I have to go to the toilet to get rid of the stuff stuck in the bands. So I end up not drinking a lot of soup at all... darn... so yeah... now lunch and dinner are mostly clear soups. If not, it's just soya bean milk or chocomalt. This does nothing to quell my hunger.
4) Back, Neck and Headaches. Been suffering from this for the last 1 week. I guess largely due to swelling and maybe water retention too? Doesn't help that I can't sleep on my pillow... It seems to add strain to my jaw, resulting to some aching.
5) Pain. Yawning. Yeah... the mouth is still used to doing certain things. So when yawning, it does a reflex snap action. It does nothing to the jaw. But it does something to my teeth. My teeth are currently bound... so it's like someone ripping my teeth out... SHIT.....
# posted by Xallista @ 1:16 PM 
