Gosh, I was in pain immediately after my surgery. And my parent really kicked me when I was down, criticizing me because she said I was grumpy. Which seemed pretty unfair as I was extremely groggy, in pain, and couldn't even say anything to her with the gauze in my mouth. Talk about a failure of empathy.

Anyway, that first day was the worst until I got the facial muscle spasms a couple days later. I went to work as usual the day after my surgery to get away from my mean parent. I did take a percocet after I got to work though. And my face was still swollen and I looked ridiculous in my ice pack thing.