food

I am so excited.... I can finally start eating solid foods again. Yesterday I had my 1 weeks post-op check up and Dr. Matty said I was healing very well. He took out the stitches that were in my jaw and will hopefully take out the rest next Tuesday at my next appt.

After a week of being on a liquid diet, I am so thrilled to be eating real food. On Monday night I tried to eat some pizza but my mouth/jaw became tired very quickly. I tried to eat again last night and again it was the same, but I know it will get better. Its just a relief to not have to drink my food. I love soup, and we usually have a lot of it in the winter, but right now all I want is anything that is crunchy or has to be chewed. Its amazing how much you miss things like that when you can't have them. So bring on the food... what a great challenge.

Oh, and for those of you who want to know how much weight I've lost over the past week... (everyone keeps asking me that) that answer is ZERO!!! I was so hungry this past week that I was drinking eveything in site, and that includes lots of sugar filled hot chocolate. So I definitely made up for the lack of real food with the empty calories of sugar.