Today I am on post op day 5. I feel like I deserve some sort of award but all I really want is to see a slight improvement in my recovery. Nothing is really wrong, my wife would argue I am doing better, but I just do not feel as if I am bouncing back fast enough. Everyone told me it gets worse before it gets better but in all honesty it really has only been about the same since day 1. Pain levels are about the same, hunger, exhaustion, and the inability to concentrate for long are also the same. With all of that said, this has been an easy process that I believed heading in. The pain is never overwhelming, it is just constantly annoying. Different days have different pains but for the most part everything stays the same. For example, post op days 1-3, I had horrible phlegm that made swallowing difficult at times. Days 4 and 5 I now have a shifting pain on the left side of my throat that makes swallowing difficult at times.
Anyway, other than the monotony of just being a little off all the time, the recovery is going much smoother that I had anticipated. Hopefully the next few days will be uneventful as my scabs start coming off before the weekend. I’ll keep praying that I get through this without experiencing some of the horror stories I have heard and I will keep posting as well. Here is a photo I took today of the surgery site following a tonsillectomy. Again, I am on post op day 5 but for the most part my mouth has looked this way since post op day 1 just with a little more swelling. Sorry the photos did not turn out all that well but between the two hopefully the tonsil beds are visible. I will make my wife take a better photo in the morning. Until then…..
