Day 9

Today was another rough one, I didn't see much progress and I just felt exhausted all day.  My jaw really, really aches. Just a constant, gnawing ache that isn't relieved with warmed up facecloths or cold ice packs. Looking down to work on my puzzle or read just increases the pressure in my face and makes it all the worse. Tom also seemed to have more trouble understanding me today, maybe I was mumbling more from the effort? But because of all this, I called work today and told them that I would not be ready to return at my exact 2 week date of this coming Tuesday, but that I will still shoot for the end of next week.  They knew this was a possibility, but I still feel like I let them down. I know it is silly in that I can't control how quickly I heal, but never the less I know that they will now need to scramble to cover my patient load and I hate inconveniencing others.

One bright spot in my day was my sweet husband who spent time with me and made me an amazing peanut butter ice cream milkshake (with some protein powder thrown in) for lots of calories!