Crunching as fast as I can

I met with the oral surgeon today for my second pre-surgery consulation. This time I had the CT scan results, and after viewing those, Dr. Burger informed me that, following surgery, I would need to be on a liquid diet for 2 months. This will be a preventative measure, to avoid any possible jaw fractures from chewing. My impacted wisdom tooth has an abscess, and that has destroyed enough of the surrounding bone that a fracture is a good possibility.

So, after my initial dismay at hearing of a possible broken jaw, I have been researching liquid diets. There are a lot of websites out there dealing with this. It's amazing that so many people have had to do this same thing, for similar reasons.

Suggestions for things to drink range from smoothies to liquified "normal food" entreés. I found one website put together by a chef who'd had his broken jaw wired shut for 8 weeks, and who'd come up with a bunch of liquid recipes. The funny thing was that they were regular dishes, but they nearly all ended with, "put in blender and liquify."

I'll be reporting my pre-surgery research here, and also posting as I go along through these 2 months.

I'm trying to resist the urge to eat lots of crunchy junk food in the next couple of weeks.