Ugh

Well, I just came into work after visiting the surgeon. The procedure took maybe five minutes, but my upper lip is still numb from the anesthesia. He told me the anesthesia would wear off after 30-45 minutes, but so far it’s been about 80 minutes and it’s still numb. Of course, I’m mister paranoid hypochondriac, so I have this fear that the anesthesia killed the nerves in my lip or something. I hope that’s not true. I hate this feeling, and I’m in a slight manic panic right now because I want to feel my right upper lip again.

Anyway, when he was done, I looked in the mirror and the lip was a little puffy. I reminded myself of Bubba from “Forrest Gump.” (“Shrimp stew, shrimp soup, shrimp salad…”) I have a couple of small stitches there, too, which apparently will dissolve on their own in a few days. Yay, lippy fun. It looks a little nasty now, so I guess I won’t be kissing anyone for a few days. Which sucks, because I *love* to kiss…

On top of that, I barely slept last night. I went to bed around 10:45, at night and for some reason I woke up at 1:45 in the morning. I couldn’t fall asleep again until about 6:45. I don’t know if I was nervous or if it was some side effect of the Claritin I’ve been taking to reduce my congestion.

Anyway, I’m trying not be so paranoid about my lip, but it’s really making me nervous.

I’ll try to relax now.

Update: The anesthetic finally wore off about 45 minutes ago. Now my lip just hurts. But at least I can feel it! Yay.