Three days post-surgery

I repeat: It's great to be home. But now we start the long-haul of feeding Tor liquids and then soft foods for a few weeks.

The eating process is laborious and can be a bit frustrating. Tor is not allowed to use a straw, and his face is still a bit numb (as well as swollen). So he uses a large syringe with a tube at the end. He sucks the food up into the syringe and then injects it into the back of his mouth. Because he doesn't have much feeling in his lips, it sometimes dribbles back out. But he's getting better at it. This morning's oatmeal (blenderized with milk and brown sugar) and muscle milk didn't dribble out at all.

He got up several times in the night to ice his face and take pain meds. So he's still tired. But that's to be expected. I think we'll start to get into a routine today.

Here are the latest photos. Some of the swelling is definitely down. And after today we should see more improvement.