10-days post op now - questions, concerns, comments

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Hi everyone,

I've been pretty quite the past couple days on the board. I am just

so wiped out still from surgery. The littlest thing I do wears me

out and I have to rest or take a nap. It's unreal how tired I still

feal from this surgery. (I could go to bed right now if I let myself

and it's only a little past 8:00 p.m.!)

I found out recently something that I didn't know. Some of you may

remember me posting about a little bleeding I had two or three days

ago...well, that turned out to be nothing - it's perfectly normal,

and it has stopped. Well, when I talked to my OS, I found out that

I am indeed - wired! My lips have been so sore, and I've been

swollen enough that I didn't take a 'peek' inside my own mouth until

yesterday and then saw the wires. I have to say it is upsetting to

me, I didn't think they'd have to wire me like this. It's pretty

freaky to look in my mouth and see little wires going into my gum-

line!

It explains why my teeth feel so 'tight' though. Now I am worried

and scared to death about how it's going to feel when those wires

have to come out! When do they come out? I was told 6 weeks of

healing time for me with what I had done (upper, lower jaws brought

forward, genio, deviated septum fixed, and uvula removal). So, does

that mean I'll be unwired at the end of my 6 weeks...or will I have

to have the wires out or changed or anything like that when I go in

for my post-op check up on July 12th?

Sorry if it sounds like I'm paniky...but I'm worried about the wire

removal part....

On the positive side of things...my swelling is going down a lot,

although I still have a lot under my nose (above my upper lip area),

and cheeks, plus the jawline and chin-neck area. It's a lot less

than it was last weekend though.

I've also converted soley to using the little 3-oz SOLO cups,

instead of the syringe. The syringe was messy and I didn't like

using it much. As long as I take it slow using the small cups is

working like a charm.

I think I was getting a little dehydrated so I've tried increasing

my water intake...it's so slow though that I have to practically

take little 'sips' of water all day long.

I'm trying hard to brush my teeth...but it is SO hard! I can get

the front 'ok'...and I desperately want to brush the back - it feels

so scummy and I just want to scrape my teeth clean! Is there anyone

who found a solution to that? I'm trying hard, I just can't get

there with the wires and bands keeping my mouth this far shut :-(

Judy