Oh Look, A Third Shoe.

Sorry for not posting recently.  Yesterday was not a good day for me and I pretty much didn't do anything.Nothing terrible about yesterday, I just didn't sleep well the night before and I think all this is starting to catch up to me, mentally.  It's starting to be a little overwhelming.  But I'm sure that's all normal for the circumstances.

We did have a third shoe drop on Tuesday.  I went to see Dr Keller and he found a seeping fistula in my mouth on the lower, right jaw.  That means I have an infection in there that's draining.  That completely blind-sided us.  I was having no symptoms at all (no fever, no pain, etc.)  After some xrays, exploration, and talking with Dr Movahed, they think the infection is from a temporary screw that was used during the surgery.  They've put me back on clindamycin (antibiotic).  Neither of them seem too worried about it but I see Dr Movahed today and I'll get more info about it then.  This was getting close to the last straw on surprises, part of what made yesterday so bad.  Things were going so well during/after surgery and now it seems like it's coming undone.  I'm not at all happy about that.  I am grateful for all the good I've had up to now but the current trend seems to be in the wrong direction.  Sorry, not good at positive thinking under normal circumstances and doubly not so at the moment.

We took some new pics after my shower yesterday.

We see me every day so we don't notice much difference.  I did notice my lips look different and my face is slimming out (that may be because I've lost 9lbs since the surgery).  Emoting still isn't happening for the outside world, though Jamie says he's learning to read the new expressions.  Feel free to comment/email anything you notice since the last set of pics.

Speaking of changes, I didn't really realize how much my face had changed until Jamie made this for me.

What a difference a surgery makes!

That's about all for now.  Let me go find something cute/funny...  (dig, dig, dig)  Ah!