my surgery is scheduled!

July 5, 2005

I have a surgery date! Whoohoo!

July 20th. 15 days away. 2 piece Leforte 1. (I have an open bite

and a cross bite). I get all the details on Friday when I go in to

visit my OS.

I am so excited, I have been in braces since last May (which I know

is short compared to some!) and it seemed like this day would never

actually come. I feel like I have been fighting my ortho and my OS

to get this done, if I hadn't been such a pain in the ass I don't

think it would have been scheduled until NEXT July. When I last I

went in to the OS he was waiting on my records from my ortho and he

said, " It seems like you are chomping at the bit to get this done as

soon as possible. " I didn't quite know what to respond, I said

something like, HELL YEAH I AM! (of course I didn't for real). I

just said, `Yes, I'm ready to go, my teeth are ready, I'd like to do

it soon. " He was fine with it and it was scheduled once he got my

records but I was kinda annoyed but that. I really like my OS and

he has been great to work with. However I think many people,

including our orthos and OSs, don't realize that this can be quite a

buffer on our lives. My husband and I have been unable to plan any

time away over the summer (we usually do some time away with his

family and with mine) because we were told in April that my surgery

would be `some time this summer'. Now I realize that we could have

planned something and dealt with it if it came up, but we just

didn't want to deal with getting excited about a vacation and then

canceling it due to surgery and disrupting many other's vacation

plans as well, and/or delaying surgery for a vacation. Add in the

fact that we have been talking about starting a family, yet didn't

want to do that before my surgery as it was only months away, has

been very draining. I'm so much happier now that it is scheduled!

I feel like we can start planning other parts of our lives again!

Who else is up for surgery in the coming weeks? I have been reading

posts around here forever and keeping up with most but I haven't

been paying that close of attention to surgery dates. Do I have any

surgery buddies?

cori w

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