Ray...who is 5 months post op

November 1, 2004

How exciting to get your braces off soon!!! Here's a few

questions...is your numbness gone? is the swelling gone? can you eat

like a normal person again?

Carole Anne

>

> Ok, that's it everyone. This thread stops here, please. We have

much more

> better things to discuss.

>

> Let's hear (or read) about how those wired during last holiday

season, and

> how they got through, eating turkey and stuffing, and the

extras.. Or how

> they explained their current situation to their familly? I, for

one, am just

> about fed up with repeating the same old thing. Not that I view

this whole

> thing as simple, but to tell the same story over and over, is kind

of getting

> on my nerves!

>

> And, while being at it, here's a short update: I'm 5 months post-

op, and I'm

> meeting my ortho tomorrow morning. He'll take a mould of my upper

jaw

> and he will remove the braces in the weeks. If I'm lucky (as I

feel I am), he

> will also discuss removing the lower braces... Just in time for x-

mas, or

> even my birthday (Jan 13). That would be a great gift !!

>

> Ray

> co-moderator.

November 1, 2004