My meeting with my surgeon today...

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I am rather annoyed at everything right now!

He kept telling me I'd be wired/banded shut for a week. Now it's

changed to three weeks, and I won't get my braces off until

February, right after I turn 20! Ugh, I'm so upset as I thought I'd

be okay for, say, Christmas with no braces! He said about six and a

half weeks

until I can eat normal food. I guess maybe he's just giving me the

worst case scenario? I hope so... I'm going to have to take off a

few weeks of the begining of this semester, as I'm having surgery

Aug

3 and school starts up again Aug 17 and I do NOT want to go to

school

all wired/banded up! Some idiots in my classes already commented on

me being ugly with my underbite, I do NOT want to know what they'd

say

to me if I was banded shut and could say nothing in class (and I'm

talkative!).

They are moving my lower jaw back and my upper jaw forward, as well

as

tilting my upper jaw to a more normal angle as apparently the

midline

of the upper doesn't fit with the midline of the lower, or something

like that. Tomorrow I get to meet the other surgeon who is

performing

the surgery and I get to ask them more questons.

Did anyone have to give obscene amounts of blood? They were talking

to me about taking a few pints of blood, though we talked them into

letting my dad be the one to do it seeing as how extremely

needlephobic I am. They wouldn't answer any questions regarding

that

and my wanting sedatives or something before I get an IV or blood

test!

Hopefully I'll know tomorrow, if we do go see the other doctor

tomorrow... I'm just really, really paranoid and worried, not having

been under the knife for anything but a hernia.