dena wrote:gypsydoodlebug--I was thinking of you yesterday! I woke up with a huge swollen welt on the inside of my cheek because all of the pointy, nasty braces parts had united the night before and attacked me. I was covered in wax, and it still hurt so bad and was totally swollen.
Oh, you poor thing! I'm so sorry!
Is it me, or are the ceramics harder on the cheeks than the metal braces? My bottoms are fine but it's my uppers that are cutting. And I'm having a hard time wrapping my lips/cheek muscles around my canines -- they're really impairing my speech. Ugh!
OK, so, we actually ate OUT tonight!! If I didn't get out of this house and stop feeling sorry for myself, I was going to seriously lose it!! Dh said I had to stop using my braces as a disability: "My teeth hurt -- you have to to the dishes." "My teeth hurt -- you have to give DD a bath." "My teeth hurt -- you have to clean the kitchen floor with a non-ortho toothbrush and no cleaner, then give the dog a bath and scoop the litter boxes while I lie on the couch and watch TiVo'd episodes of Maury Povich."
Well, fine. So we went to the Olive Garden (yeah, I know, but it was the only soft-food place we could think of other than PF Chang's, and our 2.5-year-old is a picky eater). Waited 45 mintues for a table -- I work for a national pizza magazine and it still never ceases to amaze me WHY people dig this place so much -- and finally got seated. I perused the menu, and finally ordered a specialized dinner of cappellini and marinara (not their chopped tomatoes and basil concoction) and I got the pasta e fagioli soup as my appetizer. Oh -- and a glass of Precipato white, too! It worked well -- I cut my cappellini really, really small (like I would for my daughter) so I could swallow it whole. Ate about 1/2 the soup and managed to pick the inside out of their yummy breadsticks. I was finally FULL!!
Then, I proceeded to do the Archwired group proud! I brushed my teeth in the public bathroom with my travel cup, toothpaste and toothbrush! LOL!!