Day After Surgery

I think I left off waiting for Curt to go home. He was really thirsty (he had no liquids since midnight except for a sip of water with a pill that morning) and drank lots of apple juice and some jello in the recovery room. We got back to Angie's after 5:30 and Curt ate some supper too. His left eye really bothered him for a while (watered), but finally settled down. He noticed the difference in his mouth too. His cheek does not feel so caved in. He bit his lower lip, but is not sure when that happened, and thinks eating will be better. He took some oxycodone when we got to Angie's and before bed (about 9). He had trouble sleeping with his head elevated to help with the swelling and used eyedrops a few times. He is used to sleeping on his stomach.
We had an exciting ride to see Dr. Downs this morning. It was snowing when we got up after 7. We left about 9:15 and Angie mentioned we might have trouble with about 1 to 2 inches of snow and the steep hill down from their area. I went slowly, started going sideways and managed to head into the curb. Some people standing there recommended we stay there, but other cars managed to make it down. A man standing there offered to drive it down (I was most of the way down and Curt is not supposed to drive) while a couple ladies held up the cross traffic at the bottom - so I let him. After we got down, a car coming down behind us went sliding across the road at the bottom and up over the sidewalk. Angie suggested we drive through downtown Lake Oswego and on Hwy. 43 along the river to OHSU's lower campus (instead of taking the Interstate). The traffic to downtown L.O. was stop and go. An ambulance passed us. We were almost 45 min. late for the appointment, but I guess some other people had problems too. Dr. Downs cleaned his forehead wound and thought everything looked good (considering). We need to keep the wounds lubricated twice a day. He will have swelling and bruising for several days, but his eye does close better now. They gave us the gold weight that was in his eye before - very interesting. Dr. Downs said to keep using the dry eye drops until the eye adjusts to its new configuration. It will take a couple weeks before we know if this will eliminate the pain. He cannot play tennis or do any heavy lifting, etc., for a couple weeks either. He took some oxycodone this morning and switched to Excedrin when we got home. By the time we headed back to Corvallis (about 11:30), it was just raining and wet. We stopped to eat in Albany and got home after 2. Curt wants to go to his class at church tonight. I will take him and he will get a ride home. I admire his resilience! He sees Dr. Downs again on February 5.