Re: Sara/Hooks/pre-admin testing/pre-op discussion

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Hi Sara,

What a long day for you!! So now welcome to the world of hooks..

(haha) I really don't even notice mine are on anymore. Yes, the

bottom ones seem to be the pain for most. My biggest complaint with

the hooks is all the food that gets trapped in them.

I can't believe that it is less than a week until your big day! I am

so excited for you! I still have a few more appts. to get through

the next few weeks before my big day, but I am sure it will be here

before I know it.

Anyway, I will talk to you later!

> Hi All

>

> Well today was a LONG day! Started off at 9am at the orthos to get

my

> hooks on. I am now the proud donner of 16 metallic hooks. Grrrrr

says

> she! Actually they are not as bad as I expected. A lot less obvious

> when I smile than I thought they would be. The bottom center hook

is

> killing me though, really digging into the inside of my life but

I'm

> sure my mouth will build a barrier to this just as it did the

braces.

>

> Next stop was the hospital to go through all the pre-admin surgery

> testing. Unfortunately for me, it being the day after Memorial day

> meant that there was the longest line ever so it only took me three

> and a half hours to get what could have taken 40 minutes. Oh well.

At

> least it's all done now. I got blood drawn, blood pressure and temp

> measured, chest xray and a whole set of questions asked and

answered.

> All very basic stuff. What I made sure to do was tell them that

I've

> had previous ops before and vomited afterwards as a result of the

> anesthesia. They gave me two little tablets to take pre-surgery to

> help descrease the nausea. One to take the night before and one to

> take on the morning of the surgery with very little water. They

also

> confirmed that I will have a catherer put in since the operation

will

> be approximately 4 hours but they also helped to calm my fears

about

> this as well.

>

> After this I ran to Dr. Sachs to have my pre-op discussion. He gave

> me good news in that he has decided that they will only need to

> operate on my upper jaw. My lower jaw should swing into the right

> position. Whoopee! No lower jaw which really made my day. He'll be

> removing the two upper bicuspids and also performing genio which I

> knew already. We went through a lot during the discussion but since

> it's been a long day and I have to get up at 5:30am to fly to L.A.

I

> think I'll call it a night for today. I'll try to sort out all the

> information he gave me into a nice, short and concise posting for

> everyone tomorrow.

>

> Thanks for listening/reading.Can't believe surgery is almost here!!!

>

> Nite to all.

> Sara