1 week post op.

After one week I had definitely made progress. The first week was slow but progress was definitely made. The swelling had started to go down and I could speak a little better. (Still wasn't my normal voice but a little less like a baby). I had worries in the first week as my bite didn't feel perfect anymore and some of my teeth weren't touching. Naturally I panicked but after seeing my orthodontist and surgeon they assured me that there is loads of movement in the beginning as they fine tune my jaw. So that little freak out was over thank god! I really worry about these things as I monitor every little thing and get rather impatient. I also expect perfect results so unexpected outcomes concern me!. Week one is the worst week but it is important to know that jaw surgery is a very slow looonnnngggg recovery and it will be months before I really feel like me. I talked to my surgeon and he said it takes 4-6 months for the bone to fuse back together so I have to be extra careful about being knocked etc. So unfortunately my Uni drinking habits will have to calm down for a while. This is annoying but at the same time hopefully I lose some of my student unwanted weight.
I hear things about people losing 8-10 kgs from this surgery and well I have had 2 other surgeries that I have lost much more weight than I have lost from this. I am sort of angry as I was prepared to lose tons of weight so didn't care much about my eating in the months before my surgery. Unfortunately I have only lost about 2kgs and the first week is where you lose the most. A little bit upset about this as I have been through so much pain I was hoping to be skinny as a reward but NOPE not in my case. Never mind I will just have to lose weight like normal people... (exercise and healthy eating) HOW UNFAIR HA. So in conclusion week one basically sucked but I defs had started to feel better. Also I am sorry that these posts are written so poorly, I keep switching to the past and present tense as I am writing them from memory and get confused.