Neta-Lee!! Re: Hi Cammie and everyone else!

January 18, 2005

Neta-Lee!! My fellow three-timer!!

I'm glad to hear you're doin' well. I also had a little relapse

after my 3rd....about 4 mm. Like you, I can live with that, if it

doesn't get worse.

Funny that we both " popped in " around the same time. I've been away

from the board for a long time, too.

Good to hear from you!

>

> Hey! I can't beleive you're still on here helping others! You're

the

> best!! Me? I drifted away from the board a while after I got my

> braces off. I'm sticking out my hand, you all can slap it if you

> want. I know, bad girl....but it was such a focus of my life for a

> while that my brain needed a break. And to those of you going

> through this now - yes, there WILL come a time when you don't think

> about your jaw or mouth anymore. Anyway Cammie, I've relapsed a bit

> again but not enough to make me regret having it done a 3rd time

> (yep, newbies, a three timer here!)so... as long as it doesn't get

> worse I'll be happy. It really sucks to not have it absolutely

> PERFECT after all I've been through but in the back of my mind I

> never really expected it to stay put 100%. I'm normally a very

> positive and optimistic person but to think that way would've just

> set me up for extreme disappointment. I'm still wearing the

> retainers which sometimes I feel fit well, others not so well...and

> I guess I'm due for some follow ups with ortho and surgeon just to

> adjust retainers and check things out so I'll try to find time to

> update on that when it happens. In the meantime I've been

recovering

> from ear surgery to get rid of a cholesteatoma - I was checking if

> there was a board on that and thought I'd pop in here while I was

at

> it. Let me tell ya, ear surgery is MUCH better. Shoot, this has

been

> NOTHING compared to all that. I really feel for all of you going

> through this! And if you are wondering why I addressed this to

> Cammie it's because she's the only name I still recognized here

> (unless I missed someone in which case I'm so sorry)

> Hope you're well,

> Neta-lee

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