Seven Weeks

I am seven weeks into recovery going strong and i have 14 days left to go till i can chew again. I can only pray and hope and stay positive that my top Jaw will be ready for me to chew on December 12th. It's crazy to think 2 weeks from yesterday this will be over with and i'll be able to eat normal again. So far about 6 random customers at work noticed and asked me if i broke my jaw in an accident. Hahaha sure if you want to put it that way but nope my oral surgeon broke it and fixed it all for me. People ask me how my jaw is doing? I guess its healing good so far i don't know what to say. It's healing the way we want it to so i guess that's what matters most. I don't have an x - ray system to look at it everyday and believe me i get so tempted to freak people out and tell them i have screws in my head. LOL! I do get sick of this insane liquid super soft food only diet too.

I can say if you end up having Jaw surgery done right around the holidays like i just did. Sure i had surgery before Halloween but i had to miss out on Halloween candy ( candy all together) I haven't had a candy bar since before my surgery and my Thanksgiving dinner was a little different i had to miss out on Turkey but i was okay with out eating turkey. I was able to still enjoy Thanksgiving dinner just with yams, mashed potatoes & gravy and cranberries ( i am not one for canned cranberries) and i also got to enjoy stuffing. I was able to enjoy pumpkin pie without crust and chocolate pie without crust. If you want turkey and like i was advised if i wanted to i could purify the turkey and eat it that way but it wasn't worth the hassle of trying to purify it.

I am excited to have my surgical splint taken out on December 12th it will be a good day to enjoy foods again. Christmas Dinner will be a big meal for me and make up for the foods i missed out on during Thanksgiving dinner.

1 Month

Its crazy how it is already been 1 month since I had my jaw surgery done. I saw my Orthodontist last Tuesday and he was very happy with the results and said Dr Viehwig did an amazing job. I am so very happy and i love the new results. Now that we are onto the 5th week in this i have about 3 and a half weeks left to go. I also saw my oral surgeon for a check up yesterday morning and my top jaw is healing and the numbness is now all gone so i can feel everything and since i know my oral surgeon went through my nose i know i can't blow my nose so i asked him when could blow my nose again? and he said i can blow my nose just very gentle and i can't block both nostrils at the same time because my nasal cavity tissue is healing he doesn't want me to blow to hard when i blow my nose. He told me in the next 3 to 4 months i will be experiencing some nasty stuff coming out of my nose too. So that will be fun to deal with as time goes by and i went back to work for the first time since October 9th 2017 and that was a nice welcome back. Everyone was surprised and they were happy to have me back. Some of my co workers had no idea i was having surgery so they all thought that i went on vacation. They asked me where did you go? did you go on vacation? hahaha yeah sure if you consider surgery a vacation. LOL! I go back to see my oral surgeon on December 12th and my surgical splint will come out and i am sure by than i will be back to chewing again. :)

I still looked cute before surgery but now i look 10 x better. You can tell i had surgery done and i loved my smile ever since i was little so when i lost all my confidence in my smile i ended up not liking my smile. Now i love my new smile and i have so much confidence back in my smile. I don't know how one simply enjoys this insane diet? i'm dying over here and yes i have lost some weight in this which is to be expected. I'm just glad not much longer to wait to have my normal food again.

Three Weeks Down

It is so crazy how 3 weeks went by and i had my check up with my Oral surgeon on Halloween. Things are going very well and he is so happy and pleased with the way I am healing and recovering. I couldn't be more happier with the results and I am loving my smile again. I can now brush my teeth but i have to be gentle of course. I can suck out of a straw i just can't use one with milkshakes or smoothies. I have 6 weeks left to go and with that i get to start eating again on December 10th. I will be honest nobody understands what this is like and of course nobody will understand cause they have never been through this. If i met someone that went through this i can only say i understand what its like cause honestly i know how it felt to go through this alone while my family tries to understand why i did this. I am a little on the lactose and tolerant side so I can tell when i have to much milk in my system cause i automatically feel sick to the stomach. I have to drink Vitamin D milk which is my choice over nasty skim milk. I honestly can't wait to drink 2% milk again when this is over with. I drink water like its going out of style. I have found i enjoy hot showers because i can't blow my nose so that hot water really hits good and really helps get things loosened up so it comes out easier. I am glad i have a love for drinking Gatorade because Gatorade is a big help in keeping me hydrated. Yeah this is a torture being on this crazy diet but i deeply enjoy it. I get to enjoy eating ice cream, yogurt, pudding, Jello, scrambled eggs, smoothies, milkshakes, cottage cheese, soups, mashed potatoes, applesauce and protein shakes. My mom has made a few dinners that she has been able to purify for me and some of them are a hit and some of them its like gross don't blend that ever again. My Thanksgiving dinner will be different for me i will only get to eat mashed potatoes and stuffing and hopefully pie. This has been a remarkable road to recovery and honestly it has helped me personally grow and it helped me learn that i can remain strong through other difficult trials in my life. I see my Orthodontist for the first time tomorrow since before my surgery happened and i am excited i can't wait till he see's my new results. I am going to shock everyone at his office tomorrow and it will be a  good one. :)