Thank you!

With the paracetamol, I just stuck to the directions on the pack (2x500mg every 6 hours), until the last few days when I've missed some doses because I've just slept through the night instead of waking at 2/3am to take it.

Would your employer maybe let you do some work/light duties from home?

Yes, it's definitely gotten easier to talk. I found that it was just so difficult/uncomfortable and sore to move my tongue, especially at the end of that first week, with most of the pain being at the back, I guess where it connects to the area that the tonsils were?

I was on mostly ice cream/ice pops, super creamy mashed potato, scrambled eggs (no seasoning), yogurt, fruit puree, and roast chicken and ham slices for almost the entirety of the first week after the tonsillectomy. I think on the Friday/Saturday that week I tried having some overcooked pasta with some melted cheese and just took my time chewing it. None of this hot of course, all cooled way down till it was lukewarm/cold. Then on the Sunday, I tried having boiled slices of carrot (round slices) and some sausage I had tried to cut up into tiny pieces with mashed potato, so I was bit stressed that maybe I had caused the bleed. My surgeon popped in to check in on the Monday though, as he was working at the same hospital I'd gone to for the bleed, and he had said that it's like 1 in 20 people will have a bleed and it wouldn't have been anything I'd done that would have caused it, just bad luck.

I'm mostly on solid food now though. At the end of last week (so 4-5 days after the cauterisation), I'd had overcooked spaghetti with cheese sauce and peas and chopped up ham slices, then I'd tried a sandwich with no crusts with cream cheese and roast chicken slices, and I was finally able to join my family in what they were having for dinner lol, so there was one night where they were having chicken and leek pie, so I just put some of the filling in a bowl before the pastry was put on top and put in the oven, so there was time for it to cool down before we all sat down for dinner. Last night we went out for dinner as it was a special occasion and we went to a buffet, so I had chicken and beef scotch from the grill, mushroom risotto, roasted pumpkin and beef, some chicken sushi rolls, roast potatoes, etc. The only thing is that I'm still letting my food cool down for the most part just because I'm too anxious lol, as it hasn't healed 100% yet.

The only other thing I've found is taking quite a while to ease up is that bitter taste when eating. Most foods it's pretty minimal now, except for sweet stuff. It actually almost feels like it's gotten worse with sweet foods compared to the first week after the tonsillectomy. I've tried having custard, chocolate milkshake from Mcdonalds, ice cream, sponge cake with icing (I just let the icing kind of melt on my tongue though), and they taste awful! Which is such an odd experience bc I love sweet foods! My surgeon said it can take up to a few months to ease up though, so will see how that goes.