Re: Joining the June surgery club

[Guest guest]

LastingViolet, congrats on your surgery date! I'll be just 2 days

before you (surgery on June 6th) so I'm sure we'll have lots to talk

about during recovery and to keep us busy and thinking positive. Hard

to believe that after so long,the surgery date is almost upon us!!

Sara

>

> I just got my surgery date of June 8th. I am so excited (and a little

> bit nervous)!

>

> I've been mostly a lurker here and have learned a ton. I had SARPE in

> Feb 2004 and will now be having upper and lower to correct a class II.

>

> My surgeon said that there is a 90% chance that he'll have to wire me

> shut due to the size of my overjet. He'll also be harvesting some hip

> bone for a bone graft. Any tips from anyone who has dealt with either

> of these?

>

> You wait and wait for a date to be set; you just want it to come and

> be done with. Now it feels like the big day is quickly approaching!

> Yippee!