Why oh why do I torment myself?  Now don\’t get me wrong, I adore Carly and I love reading her blog as I do with all my other friends blogs of course!  However last night while chewing on my wad of gauze and trying to eat yogurt (whilst pretending it was something yummy that I couldn\’t eat ha ha) I stumbled over to see what Mrs. Carly had been up to since I had pay her blog a visit last.  Man I tell you I was DROOLING!  Take a look for yourself and tell me that doesn\’t look yummy!  So I had to say that I \”hated\” Read: drooled over with envy 😉  her blog pictures simply because I was and still am jealous that she got to enjoy such AWESOME looking food!  If I ever end up that way I\’d love to check that place out!  Anyway moving along…

I GOT TO EAT REAL FOOD TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I have to be SUPER careful for the next 2 weeks until this gaping hole in my mouth closes over and the stitches fall out.  I\’m a little off balance from the painkillers and tripped over the area rug going into the tea room and almost did an epic face plant.  Thankfully no one was there except for my 2 co-workers because that was a little embarrassing!  Damn small feet of mine don\’t help either, I always miss-judge my steps because I purposely wear shoes bigger then my feet really are for 2 reasons: I\’m TIRED of people commenting on how small my feet are in spite of the fact that I am almost 6\” tall, no they\’re NOT cute it throws my balance off more often then not so wearing a larger size makes them \”appear\” to be in proportion to the rest of me.  Also the shape of my feet is odd to say the least.  My arch doesn\’t really exist, in fact my feet are almost flat.  In part due to working at such a young age (14 by choice) and being on my feet all the time so finding shoes that are wide enough is usually an issue best solved by buying a size or two bigger.

So aside from some minor residual discomfort and the odd pang of pain from doing stupid things like stepping down to hard, or bending down too low and trying really hard not to sneeze I\’m doing OK.  I ate like a champ today which was nice!  My diet is extremely limited mostly because I am SO paranoid of getting \”dry socket\” that I would like to avoid that at ALL costs~!  In any case it was nice to eat since the last proper meal I had was pre surgery but its SO frustrating not being able to eat normally.  Because one of my molars (you know the one I had looked at 2 weeks ago that\’s full of cotton) isn\’t exactly helpful when it comes to chewing so i\’ve stuck to stuff that I can tear up into bite sized pieces.  I\’ve eaten a lot of toast with peanut butter today.  After bleeding for almost 12 hours from the surgery my blood sugar was way low and having to take regular rounds of pain killers my stomach wasn\’t having it either so the bread helped stave that off and the peanut butter gave me some much needed protein.  We also had salmon \”Patti cakes\” at work today which consists of : Salmon, mashed potatoes, celery, onion and seasoning so I was able to eat that too which helped me feel less nauseated and light headed.  Getting your teeth pulled has a long lists of don\’t and flat out no\’s:

Don\’t sneeze, spit, cough, brush your teeth, do anything strenuous, smoke, eat real food, drink/eat anything hot, no alcohol for 12-48 hours depending on what it is among a ton of other things.  Thankfully I can brush my teeth but that\’s strange now because I\’m terrified of going too far back and hurting myself!  I have to stay more on top of my salt rinses though, I\’m allowed to do them every 1/2 hour to help speed healing and its a must after I eat especially because I will be dammed if anything get\’s lodged in there!  I *think* I\’m doing OK though so far!  I lived through getting 4 wisdom teeth out in one shot will no major ill effects so here\’s to hoping I have the same results this time around!