Oh god make this painkiller work

[sincere]

I'm not in pain yet!

I was freaking out before I became very dispassionate and eventually unconscious and woke up a minute later to find the surgery done. No complications yay.

I am now finding that, inconveniently, I am continually leaking blood from my mouth and cannot feel my lower lip or chin. In fact, my lower lip does not feel like it is related to the rest of my body. It keeps getting in the way and not responding when I poke it. When I was first feeling out my face, before I found a mirror, I thought it was gauze hanging out of my mouth.

Swallowing has become a very unfortunate experience that I cannot avoid, because my options are A) drooling blood, B) drowning on blood, C) spitting up my limited supply of gauze, or D) swallowing blood. It doesn't taste good. I'm not cut out to be a vampire, I think.

I'm beginning to regain feeling in my tongue. This is the prelude to pain.

Not sleepy, which is good, because I would... wind up with option B there, I think.

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[luvbishie.livejournal.com]

I thought I was going to be in a lot of pain too, but the dumb docs only gave me motrin 800's. I took one of those when I got home, slept for four more hours, woke up, and was in no pain. When I first got home, I tried smoking a cigarette, but like you, my lip didn't feel like it was mine. Every time I went to put something in my mouth, I had to feel where my lip was, and what it was doing. For having all four done at the same time, there was no pain at all, none, whatsoever. However, I did wake up from the IV crying like a baby...