Day-6 (Tuesday) Rough Day

Today was rough.  Maybe my roughest day home so far (which I didn't really expect at almost a week post-op).

The icky parts:

• Headache all day
• Ear/Nerve pain
• Ran a low fever all day
• Yawning hurts
• Laughing hurts
• Face still swollen, tight, tingling, and just uncomfortable
• Still not sleeping well 
• Can't smile (this is really, really hard...not being able to physically smile, has a serious psychological effect and truly makes me feel sad)
• Reflection still doesn't look like "me"
• Completely exhausted, ALL.THE.TIME.
• Lips and cheeks are still cut up and swollen
• Can barely open my mouth...still hard to even fit the infant toothbrush in there!

But even the bad days have good parts...

The good parts:

• Two of my friends offered to go to the grocery store for me, just the reminder that friends are willing to help makes the day better
• I had flowers delivered from another sweet friend
• Another friend brought me pureed Tomato Basil soup for lunch
• The swelling has gone down a little
• I am getting to try lot's of new soups (I do actually love soup...)
• My kids came home! 

Anyway, here are some pictures from today and hopes for a better day tomorrow: