Spent the morning updating and finally catching up to now on my blog.
Today I have had hardly any painkillers so far; only had some ibuprofen first thing and some paracetamol this afternoon. I didn't take codeine before bed last night either. I also didn't sleep elevated last night either, I wondered if I would sleep better getting my head down. I did wake a couple of times thinking I was in the wrong room but dropped off again quite quickly. Woke just before 7am.
Although I have updated my blog, I keep remembering things that I have forgotten. For example, I haven't mentioned weight loss.
So I'll mention it here. Before my surgery, my usual weight was 11st 4lbs (or 158lbs or 72kg), plus or minus a pound or two.
By the time I weighed myself on admission day I was down to 11st (or 150lbs or 70kg).
I was a bit frustrated on day 4, having endured a liquid diet and when I stood on the scales I had lost nothing! I was 11st 4lbs again! But I figure that must have been due to swelling, and the sheer volume of IV fluids and water, etc. Of course I should also listen to what I learnt during my degree at uni and know that it takes about 2 weeks for your energy to balance out.
By the beginning of week 2 I was down to 10st 9lbs (or 149lbs or 67.5kg) so that is 9lbs I have lost in total.
I seem to have stayed the same weight for the duration of this week. I wouldn't mind losing another couple of pounds, then I'll be back to the weight I was before I had my kids!
Breakfast: readybrek with mashed banana through it; it was actually quite tasty and made a nice change.
Lunch: Baxter's minestrone, Parmesan and basil soup, one of their feel fuller longer range soups. I had picked it up in Sainsbury's yesterday. Was really nice soup. I had a vanilla cheesecake for pudding and managed the biscuit base too.
I also noticed that today I can get a tablespoon in my mouth properly now.
This afternoon I made a hot chocolate with squirty cream (instead of going out)
Supper will be cauliflower cheese, I may or may not have mashed potato with it (I'm getting a bit fed up of mashed potato), we'll see.
Edit, supper was a huge plate of cauliflower cheese and I chose to have mash too. Didn't think I would manage it all but was very pleased with myself when I did.
This evening I had the urge to eat again. Like properly eat. It would've been cool if I had had some kind of inspiration and came up with something new and great to eat.
Well, jelly just had to do.
This morning, after updating my blog, I thought I'd take some different pictures so you can get an idea of how my bite is and how far I can open my mouth. I've read on a few blogs about being able to open your mouth according to finger widths and to be honest, that doesn't make much sense to me; everyone has different sized fingers and mouths. So I'll show you how far I can open my mouth.
I also straightened my hair in an attempt to get it to look as if I haven't been pulled through a hedge backwards twice!
Top picture here is my bite today:
This next picture shows my bite on 4th September, the day before surgery. Remember my top jaw was not moved.
I can open my mouth this far:
And general pictures for today are:
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