Youtube video!

Hey, y'all! (I'm not sure why I just said y'all..)

Anyway, I have ventured into the realm of YouTube and have concocted an extremely long video about my experience with jaw surgery. Obviously I am incapable of capturing the realities of surviving day to day throughout jaw surgery recovery, but I think it's a pretty decent first look for anyone thinking about going through with it. Excuse my slight lisp...braces and stiff jaw combined is not pretty. Anyway, if you want to check it out that would be great. If you want to continue to check out new videos that I post, even greater! ;D

Anyway, I thought I would let any readers know about it if you have about 20 minutes to spare hahaha.

Hope you're all having a fantastic day, week and year, we'll potentially see you next week!!

xxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt2Key6_kTY

Back again really quick! I just made a little collage of before and after pictures! The before pictures were taken actually back when I was just sixteen and a bit, so that would have been August of 2012. I have a post about it here: http://adventureoftheunderbite.blogspot.ca/2012/08/blog-post.html#comment-form 

Anyway, I used those and then pictures of me right now (the ones I used in my week fourteen post/three months) at the ripe old age of eighteen. There is SUCH a difference that I didn't completely realize the severity of, it's absolutely incredible and I am SO thankful to be living in a world where this is possible. I am SO happy with my new bite. Even though I have those "oh wait, that's a bit off" moments, I just look back at stuff like this and think 'hey, at least I don't have THAT anymore'. 

I'm learning to love it completely more and more with each day (plus I can bite into things now!!)

Anyway, that's it for today! Thanks for reading!!

xxx

 

Week Fourteen!! ((January 30 marked month 3!))

Wow I've missed a couple weeks now! It 's so weirdbecause before surgery I would literally spend hours looking at blgs and looking forward to making one of my own, it occupied my mind almost all the time, but now that three months have passe it's just sort of normal life I guess. 

I saw my surgeon on January 27 and he told me that everything was looking great. He sai something had shifted which was too bad but not a bad thing per se so I'm not too worried.  I don't see my orthodontist until February 19th thoigh so still bo word on when I get my braces off. I had to have my grad photos done with them on whoch kind of sucks but oh well. 

My chin is still a bit stiff but I can eat pretty much anything now, I just have to be a lot more careful with hard things like certain chocolates or almonds etc. I still think there is a TINY amount of swelling left but for the most part I think that it's pretty much gone. 

I know people have said that some numbness can take up to a year even to go away but the right half of my bottom lip is still, I would say, about 80-90% numb. It just doesn't feel normal, but there is pain when pressure is put on it so there is SOME feeling in there. The same goes for my chin. I guess all I can do now is be patient about it. 

I don't have much to say anymore, but I might make a YouTube video about my journey in the future, we'll see how my schedule pans out hahaha. 

Anyway, that's all for week fourteen (on wednesday at least) , You'll see me again eventually!!! (: 

xxx