Greetings from Italy and an update

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Hello All!

See I told you I'd be posting from Italy as soon as I could. I think

my mom thinks I am officially addicted to the site since I haven't

been home even 2 hours and I logged online right away to see how you

were all doing.

Becky and Diane - you girls are such sweeties! Made me really smile

to see your messages about missing me and the Caboose. I miss the

Caboose too! I hope her surgery went well!!!

Well let me update on my last 48 hours. So yesterday I set out to go

to my OS before heading to the airport. I thought I had given myself

ample time to get to him but the fact that it was the July 4th

weekend paired with the fact that my OS's office is near La Guardia

airport and that the Mets were playing at O'Shea Stadium really

messed up my plans. An hour and half later I was still stuck in

traffic and in no way closer to my OS. So I pick up the phone to call

him and tell him I'll be late. He said to me that there was no way I

would be able to make it to JFK in time for my flight if I went to

see him so we agreed that I could skip the in-office visit and

instead opted for a telephone consultation. The wonders of

technology, I'm telling you! Anyway, I updated him on how my visit

when at the OD's and then I told him my OD took me off the elastics.

Well he was not happy AT ALL about that. Kind of freaked me out

because I had a sneaking suspicion that taking me off the bands was

not the plan he had in mind for me. He said that he thinks I'll be

fine any way but the issue is that I had such a major open bite

before that he doesn't want me risking a relapse (and neither do I

for that matter!!). He described it has taking a cast off a person

who broke their foot and then sending them off to walk around without

providing them with a support bandage. He also told me that I was the

3rd patient of his this week whose OD had divergent views with him on

the bands. Go figure. I guess ODs and OS's don't necessarily see eye

to eye all the time. Anyway this time around I think I agree with my

OS. It just felt weird having no support whatsoever so soon after

surgery.

So I agreed with him that I needed to go back on the elastics. Just

one problem. I have no hooks to attach the elastics too. Bummer! So I

suggested that I could try to wrap the elastics around my brackets

and see how that works. Well it works, feels a little tight around

the teeth and the bands tend to come off more easily. Also I am only

able to attach the bands to 2 teeth instead of 3 teeth as he wanted

me to, to make a triangle shape. The problem is that the OD put on

powerchains on my side teeth to close up the gaps from where they

took out my bicuspids so I have no bracket to hook on to. Regardless,

I was able to keep on the elastics for my whole flight to Italy and

hopefully even though they are on just 2 teeth it will be fine. I am

going to take a picture of myself with the elastics on and send it to

my OS to see if he is Ok with them being like that.

Did I mention that my OS is an ABSOLUTE SWEETHEART?! He gave me his

cell phone and email and I can contact him when ever I have any

concerns or questions. Must be those 2 bottles of red wine I gave him

as a thank you gift. Hee hee. Just kidding, i think he is a genuinely

nice guy. Anyway, so now I have to wear my bands for 16 hours a day

which is not that bad. Leaves me 8 hours bandless. We'll see how i

managed.

The good news is that I am definitely splintless. Yipppeeeeee!!! And

secondly, today I was checking out my teeth and noticed that one of

the holes in my mouth from where the teeth were taken out has

practically closed ALREADY! I can't believe how fast my teeth move.

That also explains the soreness but it's bearable.

Well that's enough from me about me for now. I am going to read

through the rest of the posts now and try to catch up!!

I have to say, it sure is good to be home. Something about how the

air smells here, it's just so relaxing and peaceful. And very HOT!

Sara