1 week post-op!!!

Hi Everyone! Yesterday was 1 week post-op and the swelling is slowly going down! It wasn't as bad as before but definitely not good enough that I wanna go out in public! I just had my 1st post-op appt with my OS and he said everything is healing well and I go see him again this coming Tuesday! I hope by then he'll OK me to be on a soft chew diet! I am so hungry! I now know how famished countries feel like! I should of loaded up on food prior to my surgery! I didn't feel like I went all out eating and now I am on an all liquid diet and I totally regret not going on a binge eating spree! Oh well, hopefully this will blow over soon and I'll be back enough to eat at least soft food! I am craving so many different kinds of food right now but all I can do is just drool while seeing my family eat their daily meals! Man, I really took eating for granted because I would remember saving food for another meal or trying to watch my weight that I would try not to eat too much and boy do I regret it! After this, I will definitely eat! eat! eat! So word of advice future jaw surgery patients, eat now or forever hold your jaw shut while you're banded from eating! I am hoping by next week, my swelling would be down enough that I can go out because I hate being cooped up in the house and not being able to go anywhere! I think the upcoming days are harder now than the days after surgery because I was so drugged up that all I did was sleep through the day whereas now, I can't bring myself to sleep too much because it actually makes me more tired by oversleeping! On top of that, I'm not longer taking painkillers so I don't get weak and tired as much! There's a reason why you shouldn't sleep no more than 7-8 hours! Well, I hope my 2nd post-op with my OS will go well enough that I get the greenlight to go on a softchew diet! Mash potatoes, chicken noodle soup, pasta, anything and everything mushy! I am the hungry hungry skinny hippo right now!!