Sleeping and Nose Packing

It is currently 5:30 AM here in Taiwan.

The evening went better.  There were only two or three nurse visits throughout the night.  Tessa has been sleeping better since yesterday afternoon since implementing the funny airplane neck pillow as our primary pillow.  Throat pain is subsiding but the left hip is still making moving around a wincing experience. 

Yesterday afternoon her face started to swell a little bit. Typically, we ice her face with some really cool pink and blue face masks rotating frequently at home. But since Tessa had her own fat (they refer to it as live cells) injected everywhere in her face they do not want ice on it because they say it will kill the live cells. It does not appear to be causing pain to her but just adds to the list of things she would rather not have. I thought there would be a lot of bruising but we have not seen any yet.

Tessa shared that she is nervous about her nose packing being removed today.  She has packing in each nostril to absorb and slow down blood loss.  Think spongy flip-flop material about 2 inches long.  We will meet with Dr. Lou sometime today to see if we will be discharged today.  He will remove the packing and allow the nose to rest for a few days.  Next Monday we come back to the hospital to have some stitches removed and a nose stint put in which she will have to wear for several hours a day.  As you can imagine, she was not excited when she heard that at our pre-op.  Please pray for Tessa’s anxiousness for this Dr. appt. 

This morning for breakfast will be chocolate ice cream.  At least the morning will start off with something to look forward to.