Thursday, October 16, 2008
Three Words
So I go in to Dr.Styrt's this morning for a tune-up. Get seated. They have a peek and a poke. And he says to change my top wire to an 18-25 stainless and then I'll be..."ready for surgery" !! It's really hard for me to gauge how my Leaning Tower of Molar is moving so I thought it'd still be months down the line. Needless to say, I was not expecting to hear those words today, even in a forecasting context. The less awesome news is that I had a busted bracket AND a loose band on my lower chompers so we had to fix those, then go backwards to a nitinol wire on the bottom. So actual "ready-for-surgery-ness" will be bumped back at least 5 weeks. What makes this less not-so-awesome news is that I've already planned a snowboarding trip to Tahoe for December so surgery will have to wait till at least January one way or the other. This also is the best scenario as far as work is concerned so I'm not sweating it. Things are moving. I'm gonna have a great vacation. I'll get to eat real food on Thanksgiving and Christmas. So things are sweet!
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Hey -- great news! I can do January, altho we do need to coordinate with the Caps schedule (I crack myself up!) (and it's in the mail to you today)... February would be great too -- it's always better in Feb in SoCal than in DC.
Can't wait to see you next month, even if I still can't believe you told those things to Bobby...they may be true but why did you rat me out?!
Hey there,
It's great to see your blog! Looks like lots of people go through jaw surgery (though I don't know any in my life). I am signed up for jaw surgery tomorrow morning! I too considered January but felt it would be too depressing and nervewracking over the holidays. I'm definitely counting on being able to eat mashed potatoes by Thanksgiving, though.
If it's ok with you, I'd like to post a link to your blog on mine, http://susanfsu.wordpress.com. Also, if you're so inclined, I'd love it if you could link to mine as well.
Happy Election Day!
-Susan
Hey there,
I probably already left a comment (that'd be embarrassing), but I still thought I'd thank you for your blog, if I haven't already. My upper jaw situation looks pretty much exactly like yours (I loved where you said 'you could train a lion to jump through that thing', that quote has been handy) and I'm nearly to the day a year behind you in my treatment schedule (SARPE on Oct. 30th, still expanding - whee!). So I get to see if I can beat your progress every step of the way. Although I musht shay, having she exshpander hash not been shuper at all. I look and shound like the deranged coushin of the eashter bunny.
Good luck, you're almost there -
U.
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