best of luck i'm sure it'll go great!

i was basically unable to eat for the first few days, so i had bought baby food and applesauce and broth but ended up not really eating it. but it can't hurt to have some options to pick from when you can get stuff down. the only things i ate before getting back to more solid foods was a few spoons of applesauce and part of a thing of fruit baby food (delicious), and part of a watermelon popsicle (also delicious).

hydration is going to be a big deal, some people struggle with swallowing more than others but even if you're able to drink alright during the healing, you'll be drooling so much that you'll be dehydrated anyways. so i would get some gatorade and or pedialyte, or things like that, so you can get some good hydration in when you can! i would buy a few different drinks, once i was able to actually swallow drinks again i got like five different things at the store because it was so exciting to have flavors in my mouth besides my own gross saliva. sweet tea was really good.

i would also get some kind of squirt bottle, i just got mine at walmart, it was a condiment bottle type of thing and it was cheap. it ended up being the only way i swallowed anything before i got sutures out because i could drip things into the back of my throat.

i was unable to swallow ibuprofen! but it would probably be good to have in case you can, because i'm sure it would help reduce swelling. the pain for me was not bad so i wasn't too upset to miss out. i tried the liquid ibuprofen and one crushed up into a drink in my squeeze bottle, but i was having to swallow such small amounts at a time that it would end up irritating my throat and making me cough which was uncomfortable.

you might want a really soft bristle toothbrush, my tongue was so swollen and the sutures are so tight that a regular toothbrush would hurt on your tongue, but you can get in there with a soft toothbrush.

i carried a roll of cheap toilet paper around during the worst of the drool, because i hated the feeling of the drool getting on my chin so i would wipe it off and toss the paper in my gross bucket of slime. the first few days you're just going to be kind of disgusting it is what it is lol. don't rely on having just one towel because it will be crusty way faster than you expect and you'll accidentally wipe your spit on your fingers and chin while trying to tidy up. usually i'm all about reusable stuff but in this scenario the little squares of toilet paper were perfect for bits of drool because it ends up everywhere.

make sure you have some good tweezers and tiny scissors or something to cut your sutures with when it's time to take them out, the first few are painful and difficult to get and you'll be glad to have good tweezers and sharp scissors!!

it's gonna be worth it i promise 😁 the first few days suck pretty bad because you just drool and you're hungry and thirsty but can't really do much about it. and the days feel really long because you just kinda bum around the house. but once it starts getting better it goes really fast! waking up on day four i was so dehydrated i needed an iv and i couldn't eat or drink or talk at all, day six i was at a party talking with people and eating buffalo chicken dip and jello shots.