I'm really starting to get frustrated with the hurry up and wait with all of this. I guess having the FAA medical and move to OKC temporarily for the job over my head is not helping. It's definitely lighting a fire under my ass in terms of wanting a plan more. The aviation doc is going to want the records and plans too, but I have no plans to give him except that I am cautiously optimistic that I might have surgery by Dec. Saw my ortho again yesterday. He did some more bends/tweaks in my lower wire and then put both wires back in. I told him that I am seeing a flight doc and he's going to want to know what is going on with all of this and probably want a better estimate of a date to try and plan if he should approve me medically now or wait until after the jaw surgery. At least my ortho did pipe in and said that he would prefer me go to the academy first and then come back and do the jaw surgery since it's critical he sees me and does a lot of tweaks those first 3-4 months post op. I know this and plan on being around for those first 4 months regardless whether its done before or after the academy. In a perfect world I would like to get the jaw surgery done in Dec, wait 4-6 months to allow healing and all the ortho to happen without worry, and then go to the academy after. I don't want to wait because, 1.) I can't stand this bite for any long than I have to. The thought of having it 4 extra months while I am in the academy is making me super upset just thinking about it. 2.) I am already at my out of pocket max on my insurance. I already paid to have my double coverage this year for the surgery. Pushing surgery to Jan or Feb 2016 means I have to get double coverage again, which over the year is costing me a couple thousand dollars again. So, for job reasons it would work out great if I could be ready to roll by Dec and for personal and financial reasons too. I just am scratching my head still at the vagueness of an estimate surgery date. I am being told *maybe* by the holidays, and then I see a note in my chart yesterday that said he's afraid Dec will be too soon. OK, well if that is too soon, then when? All I am asking for is an estimate, and if you want to be conservative and tell me later when it could be earlier, then go for it. Just as long as I have something. Something to throw out there, because right now when the aviation doc asks me about this, I have nothing close to concrete to tell him. And from a personal level, I have nothing concrete to plan off of for my life. Right now I have kept Nov/Dec open on my calendar. My life is officially on hold at that point, and if he thinks there is a good chance I am not doing surgery by then, then tell me so I can plan some stuff for those months. I have a life, and if possible, I'd like to do something around the holidays if I am not going to be laid up. And then there is no reasoning. I have no clue why it's going to take longer than the originally hoped for Nov/Dec time frame. As far as I knew I was getting my bottom space closed, top braces back on closer to surgery, and then surgery. Bottom space has been pretty much closed for a while now and top braces on since June. So, what's good, doc? I hate being a pest, but I am really started to get frustrated. Again, the whole FAA thing has been the straw to break the camels back in terms of my frustration with this, but I was already going in that direction for the last appointment or two.
Below is the new pano from the last appt. After he saw this, he started doing the torque to my roots on the bottom. It always makes me sick to look at my roots. My top teeth are in such bad shape. Just makes me want to cry every time I see an xray and see the look on the doctors face when they see the xray. Ugh, oh well. Other thing I think I see is the screw popping out in my left cheek. The ones on my right look really flush, and I am pretty sure the one on the left you can see not flush and backed out of the bone a bit. That is the side I can actually feel it sticking out on if I run my finger on it and it's tender. Luckily not infected or anything, so I am just going to continue to let it be. I did manage to convince the ortho to at least look in to a better estimate for me, so he took some molds and will take a look. I don't expect much to come from it though, so we'll see. I go back Oct 6th to get the scoop on that. Stay tuned!
Below is the new pano from the last appt. After he saw this, he started doing the torque to my roots on the bottom. It always makes me sick to look at my roots. My top teeth are in such bad shape. Just makes me want to cry every time I see an xray and see the look on the doctors face when they see the xray. Ugh, oh well. Other thing I think I see is the screw popping out in my left cheek. The ones on my right look really flush, and I am pretty sure the one on the left you can see not flush and backed out of the bone a bit. That is the side I can actually feel it sticking out on if I run my finger on it and it's tender. Luckily not infected or anything, so I am just going to continue to let it be. I did manage to convince the ortho to at least look in to a better estimate for me, so he took some molds and will take a look. I don't expect much to come from it though, so we'll see. I go back Oct 6th to get the scoop on that. Stay tuned!
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