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Braces Installed: February 7th, 2006
Jaw Surgery Performed: January 31st, 2007
Braces Removed: September 17th, 2007!
Retainers Attached: October 2nd, 2007
Who's Counting?
Before & After
Before & After Photos
- All Before & After Photos
- X-Ray Comparison
- One Year Post Op
- Christmas 2006 Vs. 2007
- Thanksgiving 2006 Vs. 2007
- A Different Angle
- Seven Months Post Op
- Six Months Post Op
- Five Months Post Op
- Four Months Post Op
- Three Months Post Op
- Two Months Post Op
- Four Weeks Post Op
- Three Weeks Post Op
- Two Weeks Post Op
- One Week Post Op
- Three Days Post Op
- Semi-Profile Comparison
- With My Brother
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2007
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February
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- Four Weeks Post Op!
- Dr. Kasey Li
- All Sorts of Sensations
- Oslo
- Flex Spending Frustrations
- Before & After Photos
- Response to the Anonymous Comment
- Less Is More
- I couldn't help but wonder....
- Cookie-Cutter Houses and Rookie "Rednecks"
- Hmm....Something Is Different
- Disbanded
- Another Before & After at Three Weeks
- MLD
- Good stuff!
- Three-Week Mark!
- Stranger in the Mirror
- Paranoid
- Jawbreakers
- What to Venture into
- A real meal!
- Recipe: Egg Custard
- Postoperative Instructions
- Farmers' Market
- My Natural Bite
- Almost The Profile
- MLD Therapy
- Sprint to A Splint-Free Day
- Out and About
- The World's Dorkiest Smile
- Milestone: Two Weeks Post Op
- Wanna Kiss?
- No Pain, No Gain
- Sayonara, Syringes
- I'll learn how to talk again.
- Necessary Evil
- Straws Suck
- Look at all the references!!
- Progress Since Last Week
- All Clear!
- Horizon Organic Chocolate Milk
- Numbness
- Blueberry Milk Shake!
- Plain Vain
- Bitter Sweet
- Rambling Thoughts
- Summer!
- Before: Smile and Laugh
- Still Round
- The Super Sticky Gum
- Good Thing My Birthday's Not Coming Up Anytime Soon
- Watch Surgey On A Skeletal Model
- Ideal Facial Proportions
- Class III Malocclusion
- Food Cravings
- Wanted: Pain Killers!
- Ha, "Chunky" No More!
- Soup Galore
- Feeling Much Better
- Swelling Be Gone
- Brace Face!
- One Week AND One Year
- A Week Ago Right Now
- Chin Chin Chin :P
- 11 Days Before Surgery
- Daniel's Blog
- Good Luck on the 8th, Kim!
- New Kid on the Block
- Why I Did It - Medical, Not Cosmetic
- Progress
- 8 mm
- Over the Hump
- Grateful
- Support Group
- Miracle Formulas for Clearing Your Nasal Congestions
- Day 6
- Breathing Through A Wet Sponge
- A Walk in the Park
- Turtle-Necks and Pony-Tails
- 1st Before & After
- On the Other Side
- Heading Home!
- Posing with the Monkey
- Comfort
- Bunny Ears!
- Hand in Hand
- Beauty & the Beast
- Self-Rising Dough
- No Glamour Shot
- The Rise of the Chipmunk
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4 comments:
Salsa on cottage cheese. Mmmm....!
Ooohhhh! GREAT idea. Tomatoes would be tasty!
I started eating oat bran after my surgery, with flax seeds and a little raw hone, and have made it a new habit. Its amazing what a great treat it is and how healthy it is. By the way, I'm curious about your numbness as I recall that a lot of your nubmness went away right after surgery. How is your numbness and what, if any, do you still have? Also, I wanted to comment that your pictures really look great! Whoever takes your pictures seems to be able to capture your mood. I do think its a great improvement over the long chin and the gummy smiles and I can imagine that it will take some time to get used to. I did read that Kelsie said she had a hard time with her new face (she had an 11 mm advancement (or maybe more) and that she felt she was looking at a stranger but that now she's used to her new look and that the old pictures to her now seem like a stranger. It is interesting how we adapt. I think you look adorable and more vulnerable! What does your boyfriend/husband (?) and your family think? Regards, Mary
Hey Mary, thanks for the compliment. Yes, I do still have a significant amount of numbness in my lower right lip and lower right chin. My upper right lip was numb, too, but the feelings have returned. Right now, if I press my lower right, it causes a tingling sensation. Read your blog.... Yes, it is disheartening to not be able to feel 100%. But I think it will come back, albeit slowly. Together we will wait. :)
My boyfriend didn't say anything about me looking more vulnerable. He is being politically correct, and he says oh I liked the way you looked before, that's the girl I went out with. But I like the way you look now, too. He says my profile looks great when my hair is up in a ponytail. :). One of my friends, however, did say that my face looks less hard and less angry now. That's good to know. :)
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