It's been about 5 weeks since it was done. As I already said the sinus stuff was nothing at all. Seriously it was nothing like I expected and could have easily gone back to work after a couple of days. However, the tonsils were pretty rough. A big pain relief was the medicated lolly pops. 1-2 minute of those things and your mouth and throat are NUMB!!
One bad part was I couldn't sleep much and the worst part was I can't sit and do nothing all day. By Thursday I was dying to get out of the house so I called my boss (he's a good friend btw) and we met for breakfast Friday morning. Needless to say I didn't have much energy partly because I lost almost 10lbs in 4 days and eating nothing but soup.
I went back to work Monday (7 days later) still pretty much eating; soup, mashed potatos, mac & cheese, the occasional piece of baked chicken, drinking gatorade ( which is still the only thing I want to drink) and taking roxicet every 4 hours. No need to tell you that I went back to work too soon. Talking about killed my throat and made the recovery time a lot longer than if I had stayed at home another week.
The only problem I still had ( still have) is my uvula was swollen as big as my thumb and still is really swollen. I tried to get the doc to cut it out during the surgery, but he wouldn't and he still doesn't want to.
The doc visit 10 days later was a good report and I just needed to continue to heal and the swelling in the roof of my mouth / uvula should go away in a few months. At some point I may just get out a good pair of needle nose wire cutters and cut it out myself!
Long story short I wish I had done it years sooner and if you need any kind of simple surgery like mine was do what the doc tells you and it will make it A LOT EASIER ON YOURSELF!! lol I just don't listen to them very well when it comes to resting and giving your body time to heal.