Does this seem right?

June 22, 2004

I just saw a show on TV where a 17-year-old boy had his upper jaw

segmented into two and then brought forward, to repair damage from a

car accident. Everything they showed pre-op was very familiar - the

surgical model, the splint, the explanations of what he would go

through. Watching the surgery itself was not exactly comfortable.

I kept thinking, " They did that to me. That's what I looked like.

That's how it went. "

Then they showed post-op. The narrator said, " Four days after the

surgery, is sitting up and able to eat. " I thought, " FOUR

DAYS??? He didn't sit up for FOUR DAYS??? " I had to think that he

had been sitting up all along, but the show skipped days 1-3 and

that's just how it happened to be worded when the cameras came back

on day 4.

Then they showed his mother feeding him with syringes. He was NOT

banded or wired, and she was pushing food into his mouth with a

syringe. He would pull away when he had enough to swallow. This

seems very odd to me for two reasons, but I thought, maybe it's

different when you're 17, maybe it's different when you have a

doting mother around. Can those of you who nursed your children

through this tell me if you fed them, or if they handled the syringe

themselves? It seems so much easier to do your own syringe than let

someone else squeeze it into your mouth. You know when you have

enough and you can stop squeezing. And why was he not eating off a

spoon if he wasn't wired shut? He was complaining that the goop was

too thick, it should have been just right for a spoon.

I know everybody is different and I'm not slamming him for needing a

syringe if he was maybe having trouble with a spoon, but it just

seems so odd to me that mama was feeding him. Maybe it's just that

my mom was never like that with me and I just don't know how other

families are, or maybe because I couldn't stand for other people to

be in the room with me when I was squirting at day 4. Those of you

with experience with surgery at that age - is that how it normally

is?

Kris

June 22, 2004

Hey Kris, im 18 and i had upper and lower done on June 8th and i too

find this very strange. I dont see why his mother was feeding him,

or why he was using a syringe was he physically handicapped or

something? This is unusual its not just you. And he just sittin up

after 4 days. The night of my surgery i was up walking the floor of

the hospital because i couldnt sleep.

-Krystal

> I just saw a show on TV where a 17-year-old boy had his upper jaw

> segmented into two and then brought forward, to repair damage from

a

> car accident. Everything they showed pre-op was very familiar -

the

> surgical model, the splint, the explanations of what he would go

> through. Watching the surgery itself was not exactly

comfortable.

> I kept thinking, " They did that to me. That's what I looked

like.

> That's how it went. "

>

> Then they showed post-op. The narrator said, " Four days after the

> surgery, is sitting up and able to eat. " I thought, " FOUR

> DAYS??? He didn't sit up for FOUR DAYS??? " I had to think that

he

> had been sitting up all along, but the show skipped days 1-3 and

> that's just how it happened to be worded when the cameras came

back

> on day 4.

>

> Then they showed his mother feeding him with syringes. He was NOT

> banded or wired, and she was pushing food into his mouth with a

> syringe. He would pull away when he had enough to swallow. This

> seems very odd to me for two reasons, but I thought, maybe it's

> different when you're 17, maybe it's different when you have a

> doting mother around. Can those of you who nursed your children

> through this tell me if you fed them, or if they handled the

syringe

> themselves? It seems so much easier to do your own syringe than

let

> someone else squeeze it into your mouth. You know when you have

> enough and you can stop squeezing. And why was he not eating off

a

> spoon if he wasn't wired shut? He was complaining that the goop

was

> too thick, it should have been just right for a spoon.

>

> I know everybody is different and I'm not slamming him for needing

a

> syringe if he was maybe having trouble with a spoon, but it just

> seems so odd to me that mama was feeding him. Maybe it's just

that

> my mom was never like that with me and I just don't know how other

> families are, or maybe because I couldn't stand for other people

to

> be in the room with me when I was squirting at day 4. Those of

you

> with experience with surgery at that age - is that how it normally

> is?

>

> Kris

June 23, 2004

If he was in a car accident, maybe his arms were broken.....