Thank you all so much, for Your sweet words and advice. I am sorry I have not posted for a few months! I think I have figured out this blogging app. If I type it in my gmail, I can then copy and past it to my blog, and it lets me post! I seriously can't believe it has been a year sense I had a computer last. Thank goodness for iPads. To top off not having a computer, I dropped my phone in the toilet two weeks ago too! I am totally too disgusted to use it, so I'm using an oooold one that does nothing but text, haha. Now I really never have internet. Luckily I've got a trusty iPad right now.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
I'm still here
Thank you all so much, for Your sweet words and advice. I am sorry I have not posted for a few months! I think I have figured out this blogging app. If I type it in my gmail, I can then copy and past it to my blog, and it lets me post! I seriously can't believe it has been a year sense I had a computer last. Thank goodness for iPads. To top off not having a computer, I dropped my phone in the toilet two weeks ago too! I am totally too disgusted to use it, so I'm using an oooold one that does nothing but text, haha. Now I really never have internet. Luckily I've got a trusty iPad right now.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Thank you all so much
I don't know why I have so much tissue in my face, that I am still swollen.
I don't know why any of this is the way it is, but I know I can't keep comparing and waiting for it to get better.
For so long, I had no idea, and then I found you through blogs.
THANK YOU!
I hope mine can too. This is why I decided to keep blogging.
I am just as happy with my face now, as I was before. I do not like it, but I didn't like my jaw before either, which was one reason why I got the surgery. The hard part now, is that it is so completely different. I would much rather have my jaw before, but look like the person I am used to. Now I look too strange to myself. And I am numb. But I am okay. God made me healthy and beautiful, just as he made each of you. This whole post surgery thing, just takes a lot of getting used to. And with each day, it get's a little easier.
To my eyes, I look so different..
It's been a while..
It's been a while since I checked your blog.
It's been a while since I posted.
It's been awhile since my surgery.
It's been a while since my face wasn't numb.
I guess it's just been a while.
How is it that they look better and I don't?
How come they aren't still swollen?
How come they aren't numb anymore?
Because..
Every recovery is different.
Every surgeon works differently.
And Every person is different.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
- I have my appointment to meet with my awesome surgeon the end of this month and then only one small surgery and I should be finished for good! I'm really excited.
- I'm still numb, my nerves are healing enough that it's painful in some places, but the majority of the bottom half of the face is still numb.
- I'm still swollen and feel huge! But nothing compared to how I was during my "cheese burger days" Which most of you refer to as "post surgery" You know what I'm talking about. Those few months when you're so swollen it looks like you ate too many cheese burgers at McDonalds.
I hope you're all recovering well, and getting ready for a fun summer! Thanks for sticking with me, I can't wait to have a computer again! (Someday) lol.
I feel like the worst blogger ever, I haven't even stopped by your blogs in ages. I'M SORRY! I can't wait to see what you've all been up to, and how the recovery is going! It's a long process, it's crazy. It feels like it'll never end! ...Much like this post, lol.
But here it is, the end. And it won't let me post pictures at the moment so that's fun.
Thanks everyone!!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Pictures 6 months post op!
im still computerless and feel like the worst blogger/follwer ever. I read your posts but it never lets me comment from my ridiculous phone, so Im sorry, guys.
Ill try publishing my original post again later, vut for now this will have to do.
all doing super well, and thsnk you for sticking with me and putting up with my neglect!
Ps, braces are off and it feels amazing! :D
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Forgive me?
Oh gosh. I'm terrible. But as you can see, it isn't just this blog I'm neglecting, it's internet in general. I was doing so well updating, and had like, all these recipes for recovery I typed up to share, that I thought Hey! I should make a real blog that anyone (family and the occasional stalker) can see! A "me" blog! Obviously that worked. I haven't had a computer in who knows how long, so I've been using my phone. and unless it has a simple little app like facebook and instagram, I'm not on it. But apparently blogger does... you just have to text your entire post... and it's proving to be a bit more annoying than a laptop. I'm just hoping it posts when I click the button. You guys deserve a blog post from me, dang it! That is, if any of you are still following me? What the H. Someone better be, if I'm going to be blogging from my tiny phone! Lol.
So this whole process has been a pain. I am finally out of bands, yay! No more rubber jail! But I am now having to see a Tongue Thrust Therapist. Who knew they existed? Not this girl! I can't get my braces off, until I correct my tongue thrust. What is a Tongue Thrust you say?
Apparently your tongue should be resting on that bumpy area of your mouth. You know, on the roof behind your front teeth. The tongue should not touch your teeth. Ever. Mine rests against my bottom teeth, and pushes against my top ones when I swallow.
It seems impossible to break this habit, but apparently it can be done. And unless it is, my teeth will forever be in braces. Noooo!!! My orthodontist should have seen this when he first put my braces on (6 years ago) and I could have been correcting this problem all this time. But he's a horrible Ortho. And he didn't even know I had a tongue thrust.
I also will be having two more (though smaller) surgerys in the next few months. My swelling was happening too quickly durrying my jaw surgery, so my surgeon had to finish the procedure quickly. Because of this, my chin didn't get shaved off properly, and is still very jagged, making the scar tissue pile up. So, my jaw is fixed, but my chin is having major issues. They will be taking the tissue out in one of the surgeries.
My face is still numb, from the corner of my lips down. Mostly just the area they will be correcting.
I still have tissue all over, but it is going away properly. I just feel like it's taking forever. I want this all to be done already!
I forgot to mention, that because of my rapid swelling durrying surgery, my surgeon had to act fast, and stitch me up quickly. Which resulted in a terrible job. And he knows. I have a wonderful doctor. So it is all messy inside my mouth, and it will be nice to finally have things cleaned up ans back to normal in there. It's really a site for sore eyes, I'll tell you what.
I am recovering from a horrible sinus infection at the moment. Because I've been dick, I've had to cancel my last two Tongue Thrust appointments. My Dr. Emailed me and told me if I don't make it in this week, I have to start therapy all over. So I'm lying in bed trying to recover so I don't have to do that! I ate a clove of Garlic and drank a cup of garlic tea just to try and get over this. Yes, I am just that desperate guys. And I smell delicious! Lol.
Anyway, I'll try to be better at posting. Let's see if it posts from my phone though!
Brytt
Also, I don't know if this picture Im adding will work. It's a good side shot of my chin at the moment. People ask me about it a lot. It's really wierd and annoying right now.