Last night was a bad night for me.
As I shared with you yesterday, I had an upper molar extracted early afternoon yesterday. It went fairly well with no need for incisions into the gum. However…
However, it hurt like a son of a gun all night. Even with the pain med, my jaw was throbbing and I couldn’t get comfortable. It wasn’t until about 4:00 a.m. that I finally fell asleep for one sleep cycle. I was up at 6:15 a.m. What woke me at that time was my stomach growling away because I had very little yesterday and it was all soft: yogurt and applesauce. I also needed to take my morning meds.
So, I took my meds and made myself some cream of wheat and let it cool since I’m not supposed to have anything hot yet today so that it doesn’t cause bleeding. After I ate, I sat back in my recliner to sleep. Nope, wasn’t going to happen. I was so overtired that I couldn’t fall asleep.
I’m hoping to recover some of that lost sleep by going to bed early this evening.
The good part of this is that my mouth barely throbs anymore and bleeding is very minimal. Both really good signs.
Tomorrow, I have the morning 8:30 a.m. Mass and there is nothing else on my calendar. If need be, I will spend a short time in the office and then come back to the house to rest so that I heal quicker.
Here’s to a good sleep tonight.
g’night