Re: Anyone else having surgery in early March?

[Guest guest]

Bob,

You're having surgery about 2 weeks before me so I expect you &

Katja to keep me updated as to your progress! I feel so fortunate

that there are two people going in just a couple of weeks before me

to share in the experience. Everything is going to be fine! This

site is amazing and great idea reading the posts, that's what I've

been doing!

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> Hi

> I've been reading the posts for months since, learning that I

> required surgery...Great Site....just got the call , my surgery is

> March 8 (lower jaw back 5 mm and genio ) I'm 48 years old and

gettin

> a little nervous...

> Bob

[Guest guest]

I'm set for March 28th. I'm really excited but a little nervous at

the same time. I guess I'm just looking forward to being on the

other side. Good luck to everyone.

Aliesha

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> >

> > Hi

> > I've been reading the posts for months since, learning that I

> > required surgery...Great Site....just got the call , my surgery

is

> > March 8 (lower jaw back 5 mm and genio ) I'm 48 years old and

> gettin

> > a little nervous...

> > Bob

[Guest guest]

Everybody gets nervous, so it probably won't help for me to tell you

to try to relax. But do, anyhow.

Many folks also get to a kind of " calm spot " just before surgery,

which is nice.

It is major surgery, and requires general anesthesia with intubation -

- so it's serious business. But remember, you'll have more experts

keeping more careful track of what's happening to you than probably

at any other time of your life, and they're all poised to help or

call in experts to help if you should hit a bobble. Most folks don't,

though.

I hope it will go easily and well for you. (I was 56, nearly 57, when

I had lower advancement. And I still wasn't my surgeon's oldest

patient, who had been a woman of 62!) So you're a spring chicken!

Cammie

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> Hi

> I've been reading the posts for months since, learning that I

> required surgery...Great Site....just got the call , my surgery is

> March 8 (lower jaw back 5 mm and genio ) I'm 48 years old and

gettin

> a little nervous...

> Bob

[Guest guest]

Hi there--

I'm having surgery March 3rd in Ann Arbor, MI. I am having a lower

advancement and genio. Anybody up to bat before me, or am I the next one??

I had my pre-op workup at the orthodontist's office. eight little

hooks; four top and four bottom. not nearly as big as i thought they

would be. I was expecting for little claws to be on my teeth, but

they're not so big at all

Pamela

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> I'm having surgery March 9th, Mel is having surgery March 21st, is

> anyone else having theirs around that time? We figured we could be

> surgery buddies and commiserate as we go through this together....

> That is NOT to say that we won't need all the veterans who have gone

> before us for support and to answer crazy swelling/bruising/etc.

> questions later!! Everyone's support and feedback here is and has

> been invaluable- it is helpful particularly when some of those

> individuals close to me and involved in my life can be skeptical, not

> understanding or supportive, and just don't " see " what I'm talking

> about or why I'm " doing this to myself " . Before I started learning

> about orthognathic surgery and my jaw problems (that my first ortho

> and all my dentists NEVER bothered to mention!), I didn't know that

> not being able to bite into anything- sandwiches, cookies, pizza, an

> apple- wasn't normal. I simply lived with it because it was all I

> knew and all I had ever experienced. Because I didn't know any

> better, I never questioned it. I think that is totally bizarre.

> Anyway! Katja