Tonsillectomy Lifestyle

Movies Watched:

What About Bob?
Pride & Prejudice
The Holiday
Baby Mama
Punch Drunk Love
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Office (Season 3)
Say Anything
& one other that I rented but can't remember because it was right after I got home and the codone was flowing. (Ah! I remembered. Dan in Real Life.)

Magazines Read:
InStyle
Real Simple
Food Network Magazine (this was torture because it made me produce saliva which makes you swallow which makes you want to die, so I had to put it down.)

Food Eaten:
None for 4 days
Ramen
Jell-o
broth
Popsicles
ice cream
chicken noodle soup
ice

Showers Taken:
Not enough

Coffee:
None for nine days! None. Nine days.

Leaving the House:
Not once until day eight

Things Learned:
I learned that I had this temper that flared when I would point at something I needed (narcotics) and no one understood. It was like I was a toddler. That temper grew when I would write down that I needed medicine and neither Christian nor my mom could read my writing.

Darvacet is candy. It also is worthless in pill form to someone who just had their tonsils removed. So, my alchemist husband learned how to crush them and separate each pill inside a glass with glasses lined up on the counter full of white powder as my rations for the day. Roxicet (Oxycodone Hydrochloride and Acetaminophen) sucks at first because it makes you puke, but then, then becomes your friend. Note: is addictive. Oh, and fever sucks.

Trivial (or not so) Side-note:
I currently sound like Juliette Lewis in that movie that I can't think of the name where she falls in love with boy just like her who is also mentally challenged. My pride might be what is suffering most right now because I have fear that my voice will never be the same. The Dr. said it could take up to three months to return to nowmal. (Yes I meant to spell normal that way because that's how I sound).

And so, if you're an adult and your Dr. tells you to get you need your tonsils out, even after a second opinion confirms, don't do it. I would say it's worse than 32 hours of labor (of which the first 24 were without medicine) with Thomas + labor and delivery with Wyatt + recovery after both deliveries.