It’s been a little difficult to eat solid food since I got home on Tuesday. I’ve had pumpkin pie, ice cream, pudding, a small bit of mashed potatoes, one of those ubiquitously-advertised cans of Ensure, chicken noodle and tomato soup. Some have offered more difficulty than others.

This morning, however, I managed to eat a sausage-and-egg burrito without too much trouble, so tonight for dinner I’m going to try my favorite part of Thanksgiving: a turkey sandwich. If I cut the turkey into small enough bits and remember to take very small bites of bread at a time, I think I can do it.

Clever to have oral surgery done the week of the most food-intensive holiday we Americans celebrate, wasn’t it?