I had to....I cannot take credit for it, but I had to do it. That line always makes me laugh....
Anyways enough with the lyrical shenanigans. You don't come here for that. You come for the excitement of my life!! hahahahahaha. Soooo where did I leave off?? Oh yes...I have an almost daily appointment with the surgeon to check up on me. I seem to be healing well. I was there on Wednesday and he said that "we were just going to let it all settle where it is". Good, bad? I don't know. I am pretty happy with it. Although it seems as though my bite changes daily, I am hoping this settling thing will occur soon. I am still rubber band free (woot! woot!) and it is fabulous.
Eating is still a challenge. I am certain this will be a challenge for a long time to come. I don't think people understand exactly why I am unable to eat normally right when they unwire me. This is what I have been saying. You bust your knee playing tennis, they keep you in a knee brace/immobilize the knee for 6-8 weeks. At the conclusion of the 6-8 weeks does the Dr. tell you go to play tennis on day 1? Nooooo....for 2 reasons, 1 because it would not be good for the knee, and 2 you wouldn't be able to anyways cause you don't have a full range of motion in it. The muscles in your face are no different. I have to retrain them how to work again. I can't just open my mouth and shove a sandwich in there.
I'd have to say though the 2 things that have bothered me the most from exposing the new face to the real world are reactions I have gotten from people. One of them I have heard a lot, some people have even asked me it more than once, and it is "Oh welcome back...when do you get your braces off?" Really? That's all you have to say? Honestly, that's the least of my worries at the moment. So I hate to sound like a bitch, but I don't know, and frankly there are more important things I need to worry about before they do that. There. I said it. I do not need the back handed compliment....
The second thing was, I think, even worse than that...."Oh but I don't notice anything..." Well that was supposed to be the point, sort of. I wasn't going all Joan Rivers on you, but come on....you don't notice the 25lb weight loss? Or the fact that my face isn't grotesquely crooked anymore? Ok ok ok whatever. Maybe I am being nit-picky. I just expected more people to just say "You look great!" without questioning future things, or just kind of tossing it aside. Can't a girl just get a plain old compliment????
Anyways, that's my venting for the day. Maybe I can try and eat some more stuff today. Bust out the sweet bib and the mirror!
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