Sara

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Wow Sara, what an experience!

Who the heck cares what the doctors staff thinks! You look

absolutely great!! All of your buddies on this site know what you

have been through and applaud you for your remarkable recovery. You

are my inspiration to get through my upcoming surgery.

My OD did inform me that they normally try to create a 2.0 to 2.5mm

gap at the most. So it sounds like your OD is right on target with

my OD. I will be sure tomorrow at my OS appt. that both him and the

OD are in sync with each other regarding what needs to be done.

Anyway, I better get off of here and get some work done! Maybe a

little studying wouldn't be a bad idea.

Take Care,

> So today I woke up feeling strangely very positive despite the fact

> I'm more swollen on one side of the face so now I look lopsided and

> my palet is killing me (everytime I swallow I feel the bones

> literally move and tense up against my flesh) AND not having any

hot

> water to shower with. Lucky for me it's darn hot here in NYC.

Anyway,

> back to the plot. So I was feeling very chirpy today and really

> looking forward to going to see my ortho for the first time since

my

> surgery last week. I thought he would be so pleased with the

results

> because so far I am pretty pleased.

>

> Instead I guess I caught him on a bad day becuz boy did seeing him

> bring me doooooowwwwwnnn. I walk into the office and everyone is

> like, oh, hi Sara. You look good. Swollen but good. Maybe I'm a tad

> bit sensitive but I was like, you have to be kidding me, all you

can

> say is you look good but swollen. Folks, I've had a remarkable

> recovery, come on! And what about my profile? What about how my

teeth

> meet? Give me something more to cling onto. Nope. That was it

except

> that they decided to add that maybe now I need a 2nd nose job to

get

> my nose to go down again. Thanks a lot! And there I was trying to

> stay positive about the Miss Piggy look.

>

> I sit down in the orthos chair and he takes some pics of me from

the

> front and from the side and then I see him come towards me with

those

> plastic tongues they use to pull back your lips and get a really

good

> shot of your teeth. I was like, YIKES! You have got to be joking! I

> can;t use those yet, I;m still in stitches and I have a cold sore.

> Nope he says, we must use those. So I grin and bear it while my

> stitch is ripping the inside of me and my sore starts bleeding

again.

> Grosse I know. Sorry for the details. I saw my xrays and in them I

> could see where they put the titanium plates/screws in. I only have

> 4, 2 on each side but they're literally right underneath my eyes so

> now I understand the reason behind the puffy cheeks and the pain

> right in that spot as well as the tender sinuses. Then I asked my

> ortho about how big the space that was left from where they removed

> the upper bicuspids. Apparently I touched a sore spot because that

> really set him going. He said that it was much bigger than it

should

> be and he doesn't understand why and that my surgeon has some

> explaining to do. The gist of it was that my surgeon apparently did

> not communicate with him very well pre-surgery which I wish he had

> told me because I would have done something about it. But no, right

> before surgery he said everything was fine. I don't get doctors!

>

> Anyway, the good news is that the gaps can be still closed via

> orthodontics. The bad news is that it will add a lot more time to

how

> long I have to wear braces once I get the splint off. This is not

> good news at all for me because I need to move out of NYC pronto

and

> find a job in Italy soon and having an ortho in NYC is just not

very

> feasible. Apparently the spaces should have been about 2.5mm and

> instead they are 5mm (an average tooth is 7mm wide). I have the

best

> faith in my surgeon and I assume that he didn't close the gap as

much

> as anticipated because he might have hit a nerve and didn't want to

> cause any further damage. We'll see tomorrow when I go see him for

my

> first post-op visit.

>

> Just wanted to share because it goes to show how you can be in a

> really good mood and then one word from one of your doctors can

> really make you gloomy. I think my ortho is great but today I

really

> wanted to hit him on the head and tell him to ease up on me with

the

> bad mood. Goes to show that doctors are human too and no one is

> perfect.

>

> And so the good funks and bad funks rollercoaster ride continues...

>

> Sara xx