when i had my surgery which was to remove some of the palate, upper jaw etc ... i woke with a lot of pain in a lot of places, was bleeding from my throat and it was so so so so sore i could not swallow meds and swallowing even water hurt so bad ... nurses acted like i was making it up which made me so angry - because i wanted to get better, i was trying my best ... anyways long story short in about 4-5 days it was enough better i could swallow better but not great .. when i got home i found they had cut / tore / biopsied >???< my tongue, throat, several areas around my mouth ... and they had cut the lip in two places (which they had apologized for in the hospital) they had not just done the surgery like they said ... once i saw that, where my tonsil was actally cut and looked different than the other side ... then i understood all of the pain and showed hubby because he bought what the nurses had said thinking i was making things worse than they were (as if i had ever done that in my life before argh ...) but anyways once i had him look he then understood fully what i had gone thru.