Today is Tuesday August 16th. Tomorrow will have been a week since my UPPP surgery. The healing is going well. I'm able to consume more fluids than I've been able to in the past few days, and some of my appetite is returning. I made my first attempts at solid food yesterday.

My first foray into real food was a fried egg. I tried some of Traci's on Sunday, and thought I'd give it a try (besides it's good protein). Egg has been going down well. You can cut it quite small, and it's soft and fleshy enough to go down easy. Last night I wanted to treat Traci to dinner to celebrate her first day at work. Her only request was that we be able to sit outside and enjoy the nice evening. We ended up going to Baja Fresh (http://www.bajafresh.com). The best thing I could find for myself was a bean and cheese burrito...

The good part: Wow was it great to taste something other than soup! The flavor of the tortilla, beans and cheese was great.

The bad part: Wow was it difficult to chew and swallow. I did my best to eat what I could, I had to abandon the tortilla because it was too difficult to chew. As tasty as the beans and cheese was, it too was difficult to swallow. Each swallow was painfully laborious. I might be exaggerating a little but it's not far from the truth and of course hindsight is 20/20.

The result: It was good to get some more protein in my system. I awoke with my throat in much more discomfort than the previous day. Granted it could be due to the healing process... but I'm thinking I tried to push my recovery too quickly. So today I will be sticking to the tried and true; soup.

I am also going to attempt to return to work today. Since I took some of my pain medication this morning I'll have to delay my arrival into work, which is probably for the better since I probably shouldn't push myself into a full-day of work if my body isn't ready.