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note to self: vomiting up your pain meds and everything you've eaten for the day only 4 days after having surgery on your face doesn't feel very good.
okay. that was my one bit of complaining for the day. now it's time to be positive and think of all the things i'm thankful for today:
1. my face isn't monstrously swollen anymore
2. i only have pain in my nose and throat instead of my nose, throat, head, lip, teeth, ears and under my eyes.
3. i'm only taking tylenol now instead of nolotil (which, by the way, kind of worried me because it's a medicine that hasn't been used in the united states since the 1970s and is the #1 pain killer used in russia)
4. i can breath enough through my nose now that i actually slept with my mouth closed all night long.
5. i'm not in a hospital
6. i don't have an IV hooked up to my hand, nor do i have bitter nurses ripping IVs out of my hand making me bleed profusely all over the hospital room floor. (thanks for that one, angry morning nurse. you will never be forgotten)
7. i get to eat lots of icecream because the doctor said so.
that's a pretty good list for today. it does make me feel better to be able to see the progress i've made. hopefully i'll be able to add to that list tomorrow and monday as i continue to improve.
i also wanted to write a little bit about cristóbal. people always ask me how married life is, and i know they really do want to know because they're curious. i used to ask people all the time what it was like to be married because it always made me nervous to think about being married and being stuck with someone for the rest of my life. well, folks, today you get to read about some of the best parts about being married. being married means you have someone who spends 8 hours a day at the hospital with you just being bored and doing nothing so you don't have to be bored doing nothing by yourself. and when your face is ridiculously swollen and you look like a bull dog with your cheeks drooping down, they laugh with you about it instead of lying and saying you look fine (which you obviously know you don't), and they still love you anyway and still manage to make you feel sexy. i don't even know how. being married means you have someone to listen to your complaints, but to keep you in check so you don't complain excessively. they give you hope that you'll be better soon--not so much that it's unrealistic, but just enough so that you stay positive and keep feeling better. being married means someone wants to sleep next to you even when you'll be sleeping terribly and getting up to take medicine and making horrible snoring sounds because you still can't breathe right. anyway, that's my take on marriage today. not so bad, right? i hope cristóbal knows how much i appreciate him.
hope everyone else is trying to stay positive about life these days too. do it. you know you want to.
okay. that was my one bit of complaining for the day. now it's time to be positive and think of all the things i'm thankful for today:
1. my face isn't monstrously swollen anymore
2. i only have pain in my nose and throat instead of my nose, throat, head, lip, teeth, ears and under my eyes.
3. i'm only taking tylenol now instead of nolotil (which, by the way, kind of worried me because it's a medicine that hasn't been used in the united states since the 1970s and is the #1 pain killer used in russia)
4. i can breath enough through my nose now that i actually slept with my mouth closed all night long.
5. i'm not in a hospital
6. i don't have an IV hooked up to my hand, nor do i have bitter nurses ripping IVs out of my hand making me bleed profusely all over the hospital room floor. (thanks for that one, angry morning nurse. you will never be forgotten)
7. i get to eat lots of icecream because the doctor said so.
that's a pretty good list for today. it does make me feel better to be able to see the progress i've made. hopefully i'll be able to add to that list tomorrow and monday as i continue to improve.
i also wanted to write a little bit about cristóbal. people always ask me how married life is, and i know they really do want to know because they're curious. i used to ask people all the time what it was like to be married because it always made me nervous to think about being married and being stuck with someone for the rest of my life. well, folks, today you get to read about some of the best parts about being married. being married means you have someone who spends 8 hours a day at the hospital with you just being bored and doing nothing so you don't have to be bored doing nothing by yourself. and when your face is ridiculously swollen and you look like a bull dog with your cheeks drooping down, they laugh with you about it instead of lying and saying you look fine (which you obviously know you don't), and they still love you anyway and still manage to make you feel sexy. i don't even know how. being married means you have someone to listen to your complaints, but to keep you in check so you don't complain excessively. they give you hope that you'll be better soon--not so much that it's unrealistic, but just enough so that you stay positive and keep feeling better. being married means someone wants to sleep next to you even when you'll be sleeping terribly and getting up to take medicine and making horrible snoring sounds because you still can't breathe right. anyway, that's my take on marriage today. not so bad, right? i hope cristóbal knows how much i appreciate him.
hope everyone else is trying to stay positive about life these days too. do it. you know you want to.