Bit of Ivory

Am munching on a S’more made from a marshmallow toasted on the leftover charcoal from our hamburgers tonight and a couple of the digestive biscuits that I picked up from London Market a while back. It hurts to swallow them, but after living on baked beans, cracked wheat cereal, yogurt and pasta for the past two weeks, I’m willing to put up with the pain. I finally ate a hamburger tonight, and it tasted wonderful. I had to forgo the potato chips & dip, as well as the tortilla chips and fresh homeade salsa, though. I might be up to actually eating the ice cream my best friend (Burnt Almond Fudge, my favorite) and Relief Society President (Caramel Caribou, very yummy) which I haven’t been able to eat because they have nuts or prailines that I haven’t been able to swallow. I’ve really only had a bit of raspberry sherbet– not nearly as much ice cream as I was planning on. I eat more ice cream when I’m healthy than I have these past two weeks.

My lack of food has left me feeling weak. That, combined with my still-tender throat, is really the only thing that’s still bothering me from my surgery. I did a bit of research and discovered that the recovery time from the UPPP is longer than for just a plain tonsilectomy, and really, my soft palate area is the only part of my throat that still hurts. It’s rotten, though. Don’t like recovering from surgery.

The M*A*S*H* episode I watched today is the one where Radar has to get his tonsils out. I felt his pain.

Need to finish betaing AP15b. Going now.