Cheryl, Marsha, & Irish

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Just cause I haven't been here, don't think I don't think about you

guys. I thought of you just recently Cheryl when I was helping my

daughter glue together her project at the last minute. I hope your

children are doing great.

And Marsha, I had a popping noise occur out of the blue the other

week & my thoughts were... I hope that wasn't a screw! My mind

flashed back to all your posts when you had the screw removed. (I

think mine might have been a sharp point on my joint that finally got

ground off.) I now have some sound on that side though. But since I

have no pain, I will wait til May when I'm supposed to see the

surgeon for the last time.

And Irish, since my face was longer by a bit on one side I seem to

have more skin on one side of my face which pushes my upper lip a

tiny bit over to the right which then makes it look like my midline

isn't lined up. But it is if you look at my nose & the middle of the

forehead. The extra skin is also bunching up just enough for me to

occassionally bite it. If I hold that sides lip even with the other

then I don't bite it even if I try. I'm gonna see if they can take

it up on the inside of my mouth. Cause if you recall I laughed about

there being two different people stitching up either side of my

mouth. One side did a smooth stitch which I liked best at first but

I kept biting that side of my cheek, the other bunched the extra skin

up & it was knarly feeling to begin with but now it has all been

absorbed & I can't even feel where I was stitched. I have no problem

with that side of my mouth. It is weird that the stitch technique

they did which I liked first is the one I dislike now. It would be

nice if I didn't bite my lip. As for my lip being pushed over a bit,

no one can notice it except me since it's just 2 mm's.

I'm really happy with the end result. I've gotten used to my new

look. My mouth feels normal inside (except when I swallow a pill-

still can't get used to swallowing uphill! - for anyone who reads

this that doesn't know me the docs put the jaw higher at the back

than at the front so my chin wouldn't stick out too much.)

I absolutely love that I breathe through my nose now! I still

breathe through my mouth at night but at least my jaw doesn't hang

open so wide anymore. My gummy look is gone & I couldn't be

happier. Getting rid of the gummy look & the welfare of my joints &

the mouth breathing were my main concerns when I went into this.

Most if not all of that is taken care of. If only I'd known I could

get this done earlier on. Would have definitely taken care of all of

this at a much earlier age.

Georgia