Progress is so slow now its barely worth writing about. I still have most of my stitches although they are becoming much looser and starting to hang down around my teeth which looks LOVELY. I'm too scared to try and take them out myself but I'm hoping they don't hang around for too much longer.
My numbness is almost completely gone in all areas. I still have the smallest amount of numbness (about 0.5cm square) on the left hand corner of my mouth and I still don't have full sensation on the left hand side of my nose but that's it, everything else is back and feels great!
Ive piling the pounds back on (thank F) in the last week. Its probably due to the mahoooosive baked potato with about a kilo of tuna mayo I've been having for lunch every day. I'm able to eat much bigger meals now which I think is mostly due to me being able to have bigger spoonfuls meaning meal times aren't such a drawn out mission anymore. I'm also able to open my mouth a lot wider now which is also making things easier. So (drumroll please) I'm back up to about 7 and 3/4 stone :)
Last night I went out for dinner for the first time with my friends. Obviously I didn't ask the restaurant to puree my food for me so I just cut up my pasta into really tiny pieces (I mean REALLY tiny) and either swallowed them like that or very gently and slowly chewed them. Although chewing is really exciting its also a bit scary. I'm so scared I'm going to damage something and undo all the good that's been happening over the last few weeks. It also feels really different than how it did before the op so that's going to take a bit of getting used to.
(this is how wide I can open now with my bands on, with them off is slightly more)
The only complaint I really have is that I've been getting some pain around my nose/sinuses. I think this is pretty normal because in my surgeons words they've been "pretty messed around" and I think this is them just settling back down. It doesn't hurt continuously only when I touch my nose/under my eyes and the pain is probably no more than a 1.5/10.
So yeah, life is pretty sweeeet.
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