Step one: Cut a Hole in the box

And so the adventure begins.....

I had my FIRST meeting with the orthodontist yesterday. Everything that I had been researching for the last week was true. So no surprise when she said "yep we'll have to crack you open like a fortune cookie". Eh oh well. I think the one thing that bothers me about the orthodontia piece is the sole fact that I have to have braces for a SECOND time in my life, and my teeth aren't even messed up! Not much I can do as there is a valid reason why I need them post-op

For those who are un-informed before I continue my rant, I am having orthognathic surgery. So basically, I have had TMJ for the last, oh, 10 years of my life. Over the last few years, i have been getting progressively worse headaches with muscle pain. My dentist has been hounding me to get it checked out and i FINALLY agreed to it. Sooooooooooooo....fast forward to today. What will be done, is this: my upper jaw is not wide enough to contain my lower, so they will split my palette and widen my upper jaw, then break and reset my lower so that they fit together. Lovely mental picture right? I'll have my mouth wired shut *most likely* for a few weeks...and I'll basically look like Nancy Kerrigan's leg after Tonya's henchmen beat her...just my face instead.

So this will be used to post pictures and log my daily boring life as my journey progresses into the unknown world of extreme makeover....It shall be interesting!

Catch ya in a few weeks when I meet the surgeon...