Day 28 – Art

Four weeks since surgery!
Let's celebrate with a picture of my side profile.

As you can see, I have had yet another shave. I'm on recruitment duties at work tomorrow morning so I need to at least attempt to look presentable.

I'd signed up for this a while back, but was expecting to have to pull out. I expected that at least one of the following would have prevented me from taking part:

• Not being back at work at all
• Being unable to speak
• Having bad breath due to an inability to brush my teeth 
• Dribbling like this

Fortunately, none of these are an issue.These recruitment events were my target for my recovery, so I'm pretty chuffed.

I work in Marketing¹, so I am incredibly creative and artistic². I thought I would put these skills to good use tonight and draw a diagram of my face.

The blue circles are the zones of numbness. The green shapes are where I'm still a bit puffy. The red zones on the bottom jaw are where I am still tender. The plates, and therefore the breaks, are in those places. Pressing down to shave hurts, as does looking up.

Today's menu:

Banana for breakfast.

Kofta for lunch, with melon for dessert.

It's ironic. I can now eat pizza properly, whereas before I had to roll it up to get it to my molars for biting. But, I struggled with the kofta because my mouth doesn't open wide enough currently for me to eat a rolled-up wrap.

Chicken sandwich for tea.

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1. Marketing Finance

2. My masterpiece is surely worth as much as these.