Unfortunately, I almost died during this surgery. A massive bleeding occured during the osteotomy and I lost 1 liter of blood on the table and another half litre after the surgery. My waking up was the worst scenary I could ever imagine - still intubated, vomiting huge ammounts of blood (because my gastric sond did not work properly) and sufflocating on it while I had my jaws wired shut. Seriously, had it not been for these nurses on the intensive care/resuscitation unit, I might not make it
They kept me under morphine and I received a lot of plazma with no effect, so they had to give me blood transfusions after the major bleeding subsided (horse dose of drugs later, lol). After the transfusions, when my red blood cell count jumped a little higher, I got much better, but anyway spent most of monday half comatose and very ill on tuesday. I had to stay on the intensive care unit for 3 days, then they slowly moved me to a normal room.
I must admit, I was cursing myself for going under the knife in the first few days, but even though I am still sore, swollen, weak and banded shut (heavy duty rubber bands), I am glad I did it.
I just hope that my next surgery will not be so eventfull, lol.
Glad to hear you made it through even with those horrendous circumstances. I hope you next one goes much more smooth.
I'd still be blubbering like a baby. As soon as you're back on your feet you deserve a big round of drinks, and a pet pony. 
