Sara/Re: Caboose:-)

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Hey

Yes this is just a temporary phase in our life and IT WILL get

better. I promise. I've just come back from another long weekend in

Tuscany. Alessandro, his sister and her boyfriend and I spent the

whole weekend painting, cleaning and moving furniture and I am beat!

Obviously I wasn't allowed to move very much because everyone is

terrified that my jaw will just drop off my face (it's hilarious

really, the things that come to people's minds!) but I'm impressed by

how much I did despite being only 6 weeks post-op. I'm also eating a

lot more. I managed to eat a sausage last nite cut up into very small

pieces so that I wouldn't have to chew it. And Alessandro's mother

has been cooking up delicious pasta recipes for me every nite. Yummy!

I fear the weight I lost will start to come back on if I don't

exericise soon. Mind you, squatting on your legs for hours while you

paint the bottom of a wall does a number on your muscles! But it's

just so satisfying to see all the apartments on the vineyard coming

together. I am looking forward to relaxing there when it's all done

and over with finally!

I sent an update pic of my bite to my OS and he said things are

looking good. I still wear my elastics only at night and every day i

feel that I am getting more and more accustomed to the feel of my new

bite and the shape of my palet in its new position. I asked my OS

about exericise and he said to stick to light exercise such as walks

and simple yoga movements for now and if I went swimming to make sure

no water got into my mouth or nose. To be honest I don't think I

would have the energy to do heavy exercise at the moment.

The elastics are really not that bad . I don't think anyone at

work will even notice them and I find that now that my jaw is in the

right position I even mind the braces less than before. Everything

just seems improved now so the pesky braces are bearable. On Thursday

while I was on the train going down to Florence from Milan a family

of 4 sat in front of me all eating big fat sandwhiches. I eyed the

sandwhiches longingly but it was nice to know that some day soon I'll

actually be able to bite into one properly!!

Keep me posted on how you are doing. I get the results of my biopsy

today. Keep your fingers crossed for me. It's mad being in Italy at

the moment. We are constantly on terror/bomb alert after the London

bombings and now that there has been a second terrorist attack in

Turkey it looks like Alessandro and I will have to cancel our holiday

there. Oh well. I still have a good bite:-)

Sara