Pain, Recovery and Realisation of Self

It'll be a week tomorrow since I had my op and the recovery is progressing with some words being spoken today with a little pain. The frustration level has hit all time highs with the cravings for non-mushy, cool foods (catch-cry has been
I NEED STEAK!)increasing everytime Mr Grump eats something nice for dinner or lunch. I have had to spend a lot of time in the past week not speaking and therefore listening to the inner voice - which has'nt been too bad as the pain in my jaw, my tongue and throat have been consuming the majority of my concentration.

Liquid Paracetamol is effective for a relatively short period of time (4 hours initially) with overly sugary vanilla/strawberry flavour which induce children to imbibe but me (a sweettooth) to go, hmmm just work quickly please...

Everyone has been absolutely lovely sending me well wishes and even recipes for mushy savoury food (soup). Mr Grump has been an angel worrying, fussing without fussing, and being patient while I cry from frustration or write incredibly long messages about short subjects and buying mushy cool food which is quite good for me but quite naughty at the same time (King Island Vanilla Bean Yoghurt to begin with!)

I had a lovely message from Francesca in Fiji - Jealousy was roiling around me as I looked at the absolutely beautiful Pacific scenery - (one day it'll be us), what a wonderful opportunity for her to experience medicine in 'island time'. I hope she has lots of stories with pointing at bodily parts included.