"What do you want to drink, John?" "MEEEEEEEEAAAAT!!!"

[thehefner]

So I just got back from getting a cyst removed from my lip. This damn thing's been growing for five months now, it's finally time I got rid of it. Don't you just love it when the doctors get all excited during surgery? "Oh, wow, look at all! Oh man, that's a deep one! Look how much there was! Get more gauze!"

I have eight stitches in my lip and the anesthetic is juuuuuust wearing off. Don't worry, I have precious, precious codine on the way. Of course, I probably really shouldn't go to rehearsal tonight, but Saturday's rehearsal was canceled and we only have five left. So I'm gonna take it super-duper-uber-easy. I'm still acting like my lower lip is numb because I'm so paranoid and scared of popping a stitch, so I'm walking around looking like Bub the Zombie.

I nearly got a heart attack from reading the $850 bill. Dad agreed to pay half anyway, so there's that.

So for the next four or five days, it's liquid diet time! I just had soup, Mom's gonna whip up smoothies, and I'm gonna try to not go berserk and try to puree a cheesesteak. Because man cannot live by smoothie alone.

Comments

[fishymcb.livejournal.com]

"But I LOVE solids!" Semper fi, bro.

[tazira.livejournal.com]

Be sure to take loads of Vitamin E; it will minimize scarring. (Trust Jaki to know scars and what to do with them.)

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Is there a good source of vitamin E other than my multivitamin?

As for scars, I ain't too worried. It's the inside of the lip.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

There really is a quote for everything.

Thankee, pally!

[tazira.livejournal.com]

You can pick up Vitamin E in the vitamin section of any drug store; it's commonly available. Inside the lip? Damn, it's going to be a bitch to keep that from infecting...

[tompurdue.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's antibiotics in spit for exactly that reason. Cuts to the inside of the mouth are rare to infect if you're otherwise healthy. (It has the advantage of being technically outside the body, so you can use harsher antibiotic measures than you can inside. Bleach kills AIDS just great, but don't drink it.)

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Uh, try meat tea?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

eep. sounds like not-fun. Best wishes for speedy healing.