I am tired of biting my tongue.

It's been almost a week now, and my tongue is really starting to get sore. It started with biting it to distract myself from the pain in my mouth, when it got to be too much. Then I started biting it to keep my mouth from closing all the way and catching swollen cheeks in between my teeth. And as that passed, I found myself biting my tongue to keep my mouth from closing because its out of joint and won't line up properly when it closes. And guess what - my tongue is getting tired of it. It keeps reminding me that this isn't it's job, that it didn't sign on for this. I tell it I'm sorry and that it'll be over soon. I'm off to the chiro this afternoon, so hopefully that will get my jaw back in place and fix the last of the problems. Then it's just a matter of waiting for the bruising to fade and learning how to eat solid food again.

It's definately not an experience I'd want to go through again. The agonizing pain was pretty bad, and I pride myself on being fairly tolerant of pain. The codeine induced daze made me feel stupid and useless, and the inability to eat solid food just made me hungry and grumpy. The swollen cheeks looked awful, and I hate the way the bruising makes me look now. It really sucked not to be able to laugh, or smile, or even yawm without carefully thought out planning. I felt so contained. And the lack of food left me with no energy or will to do anything.

All around, it was just unpleasant. I might wish the experience upon my worst enemy - afterall, they probably deserve it - but definately not on anyone I even remotely liked.