Well, Tomorrow a.m. Upper Jaw Surgery!

[Delag]

3 weeks sound aobut right. I am sorry to hear you are having such a hard time right now. You are such a wonderful person and are always among the fisrt here on AW to offer help and encouragement. I think after a few weeks you just get worn down. Every night you go to sleep thinking, 'tomorrow I am going to feel so much better', and then you wake up and are still numb, have lower energy, and after 3 weeks you are expected to cook food for everyone else (that you can't eat), and be back to normal in everyone elses eyes. It is hard. You want to be normal but still need more time to heal and get all those toxins out of your system. Can you take a little time to pamper yourself? I know you have to take care of your dd now, but instead of ironing - send it out and watch a movie....order Chinese food instead of cooking and relax with a book. And if your dd gets snippy (as they all do) stick some headphones in your ears - you have my permission

I also am finding the numbness to be a royal pain, and I don't even have that much of it. I miss feeling both my lips when I kiss my little ones goodnight. I miss testing how hot my coffee is with my upper lip before I take a too big gulp. I miss being able to smile and feel how big I am smiling. I miss being able to feel if I have food stuck. I miss being able to lick my lips and being able to smack my lips together to get the lipstick just right. I agree, the numbness is really annoyning

[Andantae]

How ya doin' sspidermom?

[ssspidermom]

Delag and Andantae,

Thanks for the encouragement! I am doing much better now!! I had my arch bars removed a week ago, and was put under "twilight" anesthesia. I had a bad reaction to the laughing gas, and felt really gross for a couple days. But now I am noticing steady progress, both emotionally and physically. Today I cut down tons of bamboo that is growing along side our fence, and hauled it out to the curb. It is gorgeous weather here now, and was nice to be outside.

Prior to surgery, I had condylar degeneration, which caused my open bite, exaggerated my tongue thrust, and I developed a lisp. The lisp has gone away now, on its own I am so happy about that. I am a speech pathologist, and work with kids who lisp. It has been very difficult to help them when I can't make a clear "S" sound, so I am very pleased with the spontaneous remission of my lisp. I was expecting speech therapy and exercises to make it better, but I won't need any of that now.

Thanks again for your kindness and concern.

[nullalux]

Glad to hear from you on the other side! Sending healing thoughts your way. Keep us posted.