Days 5 & 6

  Sorry! I'm Late posting. But it looks like I have my wisdom teeth taken out, which I did in addition to the jaw surgery. But I have allot of bruising. I have a huge bruise that falls all the way down to my neck on my left side. It's pretty intense.

  Day 5: sucked. I just felt gross all day. I took all my anti-nausea meds, all my pain meds, and stayed as hydrated as I could. I even showered. Ehh. It was just a down day.

  Day 6: SO MUCH BETTER!!! Ah, I just woke up feeling better all around. My Mom got me to sit at the table and we did a 550 piece puzzle! And my youth pastor came to visit and he even helped with the puzzle. Then 2 of my Best Friends came over to visit me! (the 3rd is in mexico!!) We colored, chatted, laughed at cheesy tv shows, and just hung out. It was soo nice! I didn't get to see them before I had my surgery so I missed them twice as much, they even  brought me a peanutbutter banana chocolate smoothie :) mmmmmm. And one of my friend's little sister made me a picture!! She's two so its polka dots all over a piece of paper but it's beautiful. :) Then we completed another 550 puzzle, my brother and other friend helped.  It was a great day.

  Maybe tomorrow I will be able to go out in the am. (so its tremendously cooler, mother doesn't let me go outside after the temp hits 100, which happens really fast) Pain: Still sucks. Still on pain meds 24/7. (Trammadol, and motrin) see it's weird, because I'm only numb in 3-4 spots. I can feel everything but my lips, nose, and the skin right under my eyes. So, everything that was worked on (besides my nose) I can feel. And it hurts, anyone else have this or are you all numb? I dunno. Anyways, the pain meds work so I'm not complaining, just curious, where are you all numb, everywhere, some places?  Ok, well I'll post pictures tomorrow 1 week!!! Crazy fast! Appointment with the surgeon on Friday, oh and we were officially "fired" by our orthodontist. So we'll be using the one through our surgeon, she's an angel and agreed to take on our case. Oh guys I'll have to tell the story of how that phone call went tomorrow, it's comical. But we knew this was coming. Hah!

  Well hope everyone has a great week! Congrats to all who made it through this week!! Well wishes to you!!!

These are from Day 6:

 Bruised.

 Bruised, all the way down my neck.

 Puzzle!!! Can anyone spot Trusty?? (;

 Best Friends!!! I love them! Left to Right- Catherine, Sam, and me Niki!

Even though I can't eat them she made them so my mom can (she has Celiac Disease-allergic to wheat/gluten)

  Life's a party, wear the hats

  Niki :)

Monday, get ready for me

  My Orthodontist, takes an entire week off for the 4th of July. WHY!? The office gets 2 breaks a year, one for the 4th and the other for Christmas, I think they get Spring Break too but I'm not sure.

  Anyways, we had to take things into our own hands, we called the surgeon's office to get any information, they said we could call the insurance and get it in the system to get it all approved, and this is where it got fun. So, we called the insurance, (yes we were going to have to do all this eventually, but we need things to move faster than Mr. Week of vacation) we needed the numbers, we called the Surgeon's office, we got the numbers, we called the insurance we gave them the numbers, they entered everything and sent it off. I think. All while Mr. Vacation has no idea any of this is going on, so on Monday morning, I will bombard their phone system. And depending on what they say, I will call the Surgeon's office, (I will probably call them regardless what they say anyways) and report what's going on from there. Something will get done on Monday. Even a small advancement will make me happy.

Alright, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!! Maybe I will draw something in my sketchbook for you guys, I'll see if I can get it done over the rest of the weekend.


Life's a party, wear the hats.

Niki

Choice Made

  Okay so yesterday we went to the Head of the Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery. My mother and I decided and set it in stone he shall be my surgeon. She says to everyone who she's come into contact "I get to have the head surgeon work on my baby..." Hahahahaa. Mother, it was only yesterday how do you talk to 2358361982 people in 24 hours? Oh well it is very nice and a great feeling. I'm super excited!! However, he said he would contact my orthodontist before any further decisions etc to be made. Problem: my orthodontist was unhappy to hear we needed a new surgeon, letter of recommendation (we snuck around and got it from our dentist instead to get on the waiting list asap), and a snappy timeline to get this done this summer. We are not going to settle for an extra year long wait like last year. Which leads me to think it will take a super long time. So we will bug the orthodontist office to no tomorrow come Monday.

  I've been reading soo many more of these blogs now that mother finally convinced me to start my own. They're all so exciting and very helpful, is it weird when I read the stories from the beginning and get to the surgery part I get all excited and nervous for them? Hahahaa I'm foolish, oh well, you guys all look phenomenal I can't wait! But because I cherish my summers greatly I also can... (but still can't) Sorry I'm so weird.


Life's a party, wear the hats.

Potential to Kinetic

  Alright, let's begin again.

  I had already been through a considerable amount of previous orthodontics: braces phase 1 and 2, a lip bumper, a lengthy headgear wearing process, 3 or 4 expanders, and teethpulling. So I wasn't too keen on going back, but if I was going to it was gonna be fast. My brother and I agreed on a Fast Braces company that claimed braces in about a year (which was true to my brother's case 10 months total, you can imagine my jealousy).

  So we get there and he does a full check on us, he asks me "Where are your 12 year molars?" WHAT!? I'm supposed to have another set of teeth? I had no idea about these teeth, nor did I have room for them. Also my lower wisdom teeth were growing completely horizontally. My jaw measurements, also a problem far too small.

  Unfortunatley, the orthodontist told us my case was far too complicated, he could do just a cosmetic fix but I needed much more than that. He was an angel and gave us this HUGE list of orthodontists, oral and maxillo facial surgeons, periodontal surgeons, dentists, and many others. He highlited the ones we needed to see. Good Lord I've never been to soo many appointments in this amount/capacity/timeline in my life. We saw some bad ones and some really great ones and some that were just mediocre I guess.

  We settled on a oral-maxillo facial surgeon and he made sure we used the orthodontist he works with. I got my bottom wisdom teeth out and my 12 year molars (I had them under the surface) uncovered, they did however keep my top two incase the 12's didnt come in and I could use them later in life. That was done December 2008. He was great for that and we really liked him and stuck with him. He did the full work up and all that jazz, the measurements, molds, you guys know the initial fun stuff.  The teeth started to come in well so next on the list: braces. Problem: too many teeth, not enough space. I got my 4 bicuspids taken out before baces went on, in June 2009. Watch out the next paragraph is a bit angsty (I'm only 16 guys sorry for that).
  He told us 6-12 months, then surgery, then 6-12 months. I believed him. Nope. His plan has changed a good 4-6 times. It's now been two years, and the best part of all of this? Our original surgeon, doesn't acccept insurance. Cool right? We have been on a lovely search and we've gotten lists of surgeons on our insurance plan that our orthodontist has said no to every one. So we went behind his back.

  He finally agreed yesterday to contact this one. Yay! And we saw him today, he's the head of the maxillo-facial team and such a blessing. He told us almost everything we were hoping to hear. Now we've learned our lesson but when we explained our story, almost the first thing he said was insurance wasn't a problem. So we are definatley excited the way its going. I just hope the bumps in the road are small from here on out.

  I promise I will keep up with the posts and everything, like I said I should've started this a long time ago but looking at this summing up 2 and a half years in one post isn't too bad right? whoops...

Life's a party, wear the hats