State of the eris - recovery day 10.
Mar. 25th, 2010 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hoveringsombreroDays 6-8 were HELL.
Pain got horrific, sleep went out the door, I went back to just liquids and squishy for a few days. Had to call surgeon and get some more pain meds and talked to the nurse there to make sure that everything was all right that this was normal. And yes, that's apparently about the time the scabs start shedding and the burned nerves start reviving themselves. Apparently it's mostly the nerves freaking the fuck out at their healing that causes the worst of the pain.
What pissed me off the most is it couldn't be polite and confine itself to the throat. When the pain gets bad the entire bottom half of my face and my neck get involved. Especially the ears and gums (WTF!).
Yesterday was only somewhat bad.
But then last night/this morning I actually had my first near full reprieve from pain in days. And it's been uphill from that point. The painkillers are almost totally covering the pain now with no significant breakthrough. And I'm taking less of it and less often as time goes.
I kept napping till a couple hours ago, upon my wakeup for more medicine I noticed that I was really weak and shaky and dizzy, and realised it'd been at least a good 12 hours since I'd taken in any significant liquid or food. Took about an hour to get my ass up as I kept longblinking and drifting back off. But finally up and made myself some tots, one scrambly egg and a protein shake.
And it's made a significant improvement, just feeling sickandtired now and not so much of the terrible weak and shakiness.
Chewing on some ice, and probably a bit more nap soon. But finally feeling like this is now progressing UPHILL towards Over Soon.
Pain got horrific, sleep went out the door, I went back to just liquids and squishy for a few days. Had to call surgeon and get some more pain meds and talked to the nurse there to make sure that everything was all right that this was normal. And yes, that's apparently about the time the scabs start shedding and the burned nerves start reviving themselves. Apparently it's mostly the nerves freaking the fuck out at their healing that causes the worst of the pain.
What pissed me off the most is it couldn't be polite and confine itself to the throat. When the pain gets bad the entire bottom half of my face and my neck get involved. Especially the ears and gums (WTF!).
Yesterday was only somewhat bad.
But then last night/this morning I actually had my first near full reprieve from pain in days. And it's been uphill from that point. The painkillers are almost totally covering the pain now with no significant breakthrough. And I'm taking less of it and less often as time goes.
I kept napping till a couple hours ago, upon my wakeup for more medicine I noticed that I was really weak and shaky and dizzy, and realised it'd been at least a good 12 hours since I'd taken in any significant liquid or food. Took about an hour to get my ass up as I kept longblinking and drifting back off. But finally up and made myself some tots, one scrambly egg and a protein shake.
And it's made a significant improvement, just feeling sickandtired now and not so much of the terrible weak and shakiness.
Chewing on some ice, and probably a bit more nap soon. But finally feeling like this is now progressing UPHILL towards Over Soon.
