Post-op Day 11

Great. Just great. I fell asleep for several hours this afternoon, and when I woke up, I had a voicemail from the HR office at work. They were letting me know that they never received the letter I asked Dr. C's office to fax over yesterday saying I'm allowed to go back to work next week and I can't return without it but it's OK because I can just bring a copy with me on Tuesday. Yeah, well I don't have a copy. It was dictated and I just assumed someone would print it out and fax it over within the 24-hour window...guess not. And since Monday is a holiday and Dr. C isn't in on Tuesdays, if they forgot to print it out and have him sign it this week then there's no chance of getting a copy on Tuesday. Lovely. Well, OK, let's be honest - another day off wouldn't hurt. But I'm already mentally preparing myself for Tuesday and I hate when my plans get screwed up. If I show up and work my four hours, they can't refuse to pay me simply because I didn't get a copy of the letter till Wednesday, right? Right. That's what I'll do then.

Well, now that that's settled. Day 11 has been brutal. I'm in a lot of pain again and it's a new pain - my left eyeball. I massage my lower lids probably way more than I need to, but I realized how freaking stiff the right one is, so I don't want to end up with scar tissue. However, that can't have anything to do with pain in my left eyeball. And just a general head and face ache, but that's nothing new.

What's new is the tingling in the middle of my upper lip. New because I couldn't feel it for 10 days, so I hope this means some feeling is starting to return. Really, I can handle the numbness in my cheek for a little while longer, but I refuse to eat out in public until I have feeling in my lip and the skin below my nose again, because otherwise I end up with food around my mouth that I can't feel, or worse - I dribble while I eat. So embarrassing  and once the scars fade, I won't have any obvious visible excuse as to why I look like a complete ass when I eat or drink (without a straw - as long as I use a straw, I'm fine).

When I woke up this morning, I realized I had nothing to eat. No eggs, no oatmeal, no cereal, not even any bread, nothing. So I went to McDonald's for a bagel and a coffee. I really wanted Dunkin Donuts but the closest one doesn't have a drive-through and it wasn't sunny so I couldn't justify sunglasses inside and also the girl who works there is kind of a b*tch most days and would assume I was being rude or something. And I didn't feel up to driving several miles to get to the one with the drive-through, so McDonald's it was. McDonald's is two streets over, probably not even half a mile. I felt scared the whole drive. I have complete peripheral vision, but instead of being able to look out of the corner of my eyes, I need to turn my head since my eye muscles are still weak, and that resulted in looking both ways roughly 11 times before feeling safe to turn left. So I don't think I'm going to driving long distances any time soon. I just hope I can get to the grocery store and Target this weekend. I need a new hair straightener and I have almost nothing left to eat, and I still can't really eat anything hard or crunchy because of my painful teeth.