today's tips:
#1: you can never have enough paper towels.
tip #2: make a staging area. mom made up two catch-all bins also. i know, it sounds silly. but seriously. you need a box for all the meds and a box for the plastic stuff. we are constantly washing and rinsing out the medicine syringes, the drinking/eating syringes, sippy cups and the cool condiment jar things. it helps to have them all in one area. they can just be thrown into the box while they are drying.
tip #3: make sure you call for refills before the weekend. took my last dose of this today. and the doctor isn't open on the weekend. so we called for refills of both the ibuprofen and the vicodin. i am almost out of the vicodin. even though i am not taking it as much, i don't want to be without it. i am still numb in areas. if those areas wake up before i'm healed i am sure i will want some pain meds. so it's better to be safe than sorry.
i have a list of things you should have in the hospital on hand after surgery. i'll post it later this weekend. i keep thinking of things so i have been jotting them down.
also, i woke up this morning with another painful event. i yawned and my jaws went haywire. they opened what i can only imagine was way wider than they are supposed to... then slammed shut. brought back together by the bands. it's hell to have your jaws opening out of habit while half asleep. once again, i nearly was in tears it hurt so bad.
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