Well, really it was the last non-adjustment adjustment. Nothing was done, which I was expecting. Ortho just wanted to get a final looksie at everything and hear from me how everything feels still. Everything has felt pretty settled the last 6 weeks or so and there have been no major changes. He checked my bite and looked really excited and happy. I think he's happy about his work and genuinely happy for me and getting to where we are now after the mess we started with. I felt really bad, but he could sense I wasn't as excited. He asked why, and I politely told him it's just a weird place to be in finally. I have a mixed bag of emotions. Part of me is waiting for some awful trick to be played on me by the powers that be. For my bad luck to resurface and find out something else is wrong, something else needs to be done, the braces will have to stay on. The other thing is I really am dreading feeling the looseness of my front teeth in all of their glory without the security blanket of the arch wire keeping them stabilized. He understood and said it will all be OK. He reminded me that yes, we have quite a bit more work to do, but we have come a VERY long way from where we started. He's right, and I am always aware of that and try to look at the bright side and be thankful for all of that, but with the restorative phase now knocking on the door, it's tough to NOT be aware of what is to come. As always, I am sure all of my doctors understand.
So, that is it. Technically my last (non) adjustment and in 13 days, I come back to get debanded. I really did feel so many things at once walking out of the office. Part of me wanted to cry, another part of me was anxious, another part excited. I know this will be worse at the debanding appointment. Who knows, maybe I'll get to see my full results and feel more excited about it, but I am sure there will be some tears. Probably happy tears, but there will be some tears. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it in a few weeks.
On a totally different topic-- I went out of town to work an airshow with the weather service. Super awesome opportunity as an aviation enthusiast and outreach person for my office, but I was also dreading the talking and my jaw. This was going to be the first outreach event I've done since surgery, and it's a HUGE one. I seriously non stop talked for 4 days straight, and I definitely felt it. I packed heat packs to bring with me. I also brought wine and vicodin, but luckily I just needed heat packs and lots of advil. I wasn't in a ton of pain, but just general soreness and mostly stiffness. Like I had to keep stretching and massaging throughout the day. I probably looked like an idiot doing it, but oh well. While I was in Wisconsin for this show, I happen to run in to a long time online jaw surgery friend. It's so awesome when we get to meet up and put faces to these online names we've gotten to know!
So, that is it. Technically my last (non) adjustment and in 13 days, I come back to get debanded. I really did feel so many things at once walking out of the office. Part of me wanted to cry, another part of me was anxious, another part excited. I know this will be worse at the debanding appointment. Who knows, maybe I'll get to see my full results and feel more excited about it, but I am sure there will be some tears. Probably happy tears, but there will be some tears. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it in a few weeks.
On a totally different topic-- I went out of town to work an airshow with the weather service. Super awesome opportunity as an aviation enthusiast and outreach person for my office, but I was also dreading the talking and my jaw. This was going to be the first outreach event I've done since surgery, and it's a HUGE one. I seriously non stop talked for 4 days straight, and I definitely felt it. I packed heat packs to bring with me. I also brought wine and vicodin, but luckily I just needed heat packs and lots of advil. I wasn't in a ton of pain, but just general soreness and mostly stiffness. Like I had to keep stretching and massaging throughout the day. I probably looked like an idiot doing it, but oh well. While I was in Wisconsin for this show, I happen to run in to a long time online jaw surgery friend. It's so awesome when we get to meet up and put faces to these online names we've gotten to know!
Peggy and I at EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2016
So, that was way cool and one of the highlights of my trip! Hopefully we can meet up again next year and maybe this time I'll let her talk more. I babbled on and on because I was running off of 5 hours of sleep over two nights combined (and admittedly a little hung over too) and I tend to just blubber on to basically stay awake. lol
That's that for the next 13 days. My next update I will be brace free!!!!!!!!
That's that for the next 13 days. My next update I will be brace free!!!!!!!!
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