Here’s my day 8 update. My mouth felt better yesterday than it has since the surgery — it’s starting to feel like a bad accidental cheek bite rather than a weird raw wound. It is amazing how fast that tissue heals! Hopefully my urethra is healing just as quickly. So glad there’s not pain down there. The nighttime catheter routing (straight up toward my navel) has improved my sleep a lot — erections are just slightly uncomfortable rather than excruciating. I’m getting more rest than I have since my first son was born almost 5 years ago. That part I can’t complain about at all. My “wound check” with my surgeon is tomorrow and from my perspective things are going well.