Morning, Day 1: doing great! The process itself was fairly easy, painless. I left the office feeling good that I was doing this for myself, scoffed at the ortho's advice to take some painkillers, and headed to work
Evening, Day 1: still doing pretty well. Lots of pressure, felt all my teeth loosening, some pain but not too bad. Eating was impossible, but hey, this is cool anyway! Still haven't taken any painkillers.
Morning, Day 2: still doing okay. Took the dog for a walk, went to work. Felt a lot of "itchiness" from the loosening teeth (if that makes sense), but still no need for painkillers even though I'm hurting somewhat.
Afternoon, Day 2???? Okay, shoot me
Now my cheeks are all scraped up from those darn hooks on my molar brackets, I can't chew because my molars don't meet since my top teeth hit my bottom brackets, I can't talk right, can't eat, every single tooth in my head aches. I already popped a bracket from top tooth hitting bottom bracket. And every time I look in the mirror I see these horrible metal things in my mouth! I feel like I've been decked with a baseball bat, and then reincarnated as a 12-year-old Plus, my midline has shifted already -- and NOT in the right direction, and trying to sit through meetings at work is absolute TORTURE!!!
It can't get *worse* than this, RIGHT???!!!
? Remember when Tootie had braces on the Facts of life, she still had to go to work everyday, and talk with a mouth full of metal. And she couldn't even vote yet.
