This is me...

Well its been a while huh? After reading about 82635872365 other blogs and web pages regarding this fun filled adventure I made an executive decision: I need to update this pig more. So here I am.

Whats new....hmm....Well i have about $7k less in my bank account....that's exciting right? hahaha...Maybe I am just not as enthusiastic about this whole thing as others because, well people can be superficial. *RANT ALERT* *RANT ALERT* I tried to not let this whole process deter me from any social life I had prior. I have made a full fledged effort in going out and meeting new people, and hanging out with old friends. I have had the BEST phony upbeat attitude one can have. Believe you me, I am one of the best fakers around. But seriously, that doesn't ease the twinge of hurt you get when you meet someone new and that very first reaction they have when you open your mouth and they see you have braces. I can now pick that face out of ANY crowd, regardless of the amount of alcohol in my system. I know this whole thing is just temporary, and I have heard an ENDLESS amount of supporting stories....that doesn't make this any easier on me. I know shocker, right? I guess you could call this hitting a wall. The time when you wonder, is this really all worth it? I mean I haven't had surgery yet, I can go back to Go and fore go my 200 bucks right? *sigh* I just want this all over and done with so i can get on with my life...

Ortho news: In the last orthodontic appointment, the orthodontist asked me if we had a "game plan" for when all the surgery was going to go down. I told her the original game plan was to have surgery in May/Early June time frame. She then said that those dates sounded about right and that at my next appointment in April they would do molds, to give me the go ahead or if i needed more work. PRAISE THE LORD!! I feel like i have been flying at night without night vision since this whole ordeal began. Now i may actually have gone far enough in this tunnel of hell to see the light at the end. It may be incredibly far away, but at least i know its there now! So i called my HR department and got my LOA paperwork going so that i can be ready if i am ready to go. YAY!

So what is the original game plan for surgery you ask? let me tell you. 4 months in braces in hopes to shift my bite enough to only do one surgery on both jaws. I have a very narrow upper jaw so they would need to widen and plate that. Unfortunately if it has to be wider than 3mm i would need some funky contraption known as an expander (ew). My bottom jaw needs to go back and sliiiiiiiightly to the left. The OMS told me its approximately a 7.5hr surgery. Sweet right? I'll be like the bionic woman once this is done...hahaha

So today i FINALLY uploaded some pictures on this. Before braces and a bunch while i have them. If i get the OK in April, i will take some more so that we have some good shots. And of course once i have surgery I will have nothing else to do but take pictures of my beat up face so you'll be overloaded then....weeeee

Good luck everyone else going through this. We will all get through this together. Until next time...