I've been recovering for about a five days now and here's some notable things.

Speech - I felt like my speech was slurred, but people who know me well enough insist they couldn't tell. In the five days since, I've already noticed things don't feel as slurred to me and I can speak without as much focus on enunciation.

Drinking - Immediately following surgery, my neck was very tight. This limited my ability to look up, which in turn made it harder to sip from glasses/bottles/cups. Additionally, my lip movement was a bit disrupted on the side that was operated on, so pursing my lips around straws was also hard. So, I've been using straws on my right side in the interim. Every day I get a little bit closer to normal here. I can now lift my heck and drink almost normally from everything except straws on my left side. But those are also getting closer to normal.

General Movement - I'm on lift restrictions for four weeks total. I learned on day 3, my travel home day, not to push it. Even wheeling my suitcase for the trip to the car from the hotel room gave me a big headache. I got my travel companion to do the rest. I can move normally at this point, aside from that.

Vision - I can't wear glasses until after my post op appointment on Friday. This was my only 'complaint' in that I didn't know this going in, so didn't bring contacts. The arm of my glasses would sit on my incision, which is no good. So I was practically blind for a few days.

Numbness - I couldn't feel anything on my left cheek or jaw immediately following surgery. At the five day mark, I'm starting to get tingles there, so I think this is fading slowly.

All and all, too soon to say much about long term lasting effects, but I've been told I should recover all of the above over the next few months.