For the past few weeks, I’ve been recovering from corrective jaw surgery and a septoplasty. It hasn’t been easy, and recuperating is getting old to say the least. While the worst is now behind me (try to imagine your face stretched so tight with swelling that it’s shiny, being totally congested but not allowed to blow your nose, and the constant feeling that you’re about to suffocate on your own face), I’ve reached the point now where progress has slowed and it’s hard to imagine that my face is going to look normal again someday. The six-week liquid diet, the part of this I’d been dreading most, is frankly the least of my worries now.
