One week later and these drainage sites on my jaw continue to drain. There are two of them now. One of them takes over 2 ft of the gauze strip stuff to fill.

All I can accomplish in a day is to get up, care for the dogs, go to the IV for antibiotics, then to have the wound redressed and then home. In between I can sleep standing up I swear.

What also amzes me is that it felt so much better when we first opened it up and now it is just feeling the same every day. I wonder if there is a lull in the healing and then all of the sudden it will get a bunch better? Gee I hope so.

Even though I am trying to be strong about this and I know that it will get better it is easy to get a little depressed about this type of set back when I had been doing so well. It is affecting my progress with foods and just my general day-to-day progress because of no energy and a lot of pain. I have learned to speak up about the pain though.

Thanks for listening guys.

Patty