momof2grlz wrote:
Evelyn, I just noticed that you've been braced for 3 years! I have no right to be whining about a year.
awww you do have a right, no matter how long you've had them braces are a pain and no one wants to deal with them. Three years s*cks. Majorly. But there's really nothing I can do except complain on my website
![Crying or Very sad :cry:](./images/smilies/icon_cry.gif)
and stare at my teeth in the mirror for hours imagining what they'd look like without the braces. It's been so long I forget what I looked like without them. I forget what it feels like to not have to laugh with your mouth closed when eating and to not have to unhook your cheeks from them in the morning, to play clarinet without this huge metal tearing up your lips/cheeks, but most of all to smile in the mirror and be proud of what I see. All I can do is trust and hold on to the tenuous string that is hope. These days I can hardly even see it, I just have to trust that it's there and that the end result will be worth all that we've been through. As Anna Nalick said, there's a light at each end of the tunnel you shout 'cause your just as far in as you'll ever be out....
Patience
is a virtue, it's a lesson hard learned and all we can do is sit tight and hope that debanding will make it all worth it and that that day will eventually come...someday....someday...someday.....as I said before, together we'll make it
Eve