Re: ....you are my surgical hero..

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Hi ,

Wow that is what I thought distraction meant but I didn't think they

did that often because of visible scars?

My daughter has an overbite - thanks to her grandmother's 5 dollar a

day don't bother brushing your teeth summer....

I thought with my surgical hooks I looked like 7of9, but did people

get a little freaked out by the frankenstien bolts?

How did the distractor affect your teeth or was it too far back?

> 2 Muscle grafts/ where did they grab that one from?

The muscle grafts are from the temporalis muscle which is in your

scalp. The surgeon cut out a 1-2 cm piece out of the muscle above my

ear keeping part of it still attached (to keep the blood supply)

just above my earlobe. He then rotated it around into the joint

space. It will scar down and form tissue very similar to cartilage.

A few others here on this site have had the procedure done too with

great success.

=so they used muscle to create psuedo cartilage? Facinating.

My upper jaw had grown down more on one side than the other so it

pulled my nose toward that direction as well. My nose was noticeably

deviated to the right and my nasal passages were very narrow so I

never could breath through my nose.

+I think I might get the bones and septum done before the surgery

and maybe if the tip needs any refining (rhinoplasty) get it done

then as what you are saying makes sense and if it ends up crooked on

the bottom then.....

Two months post-partum? No, you are the hero here.

=oh did I mention my surgeon refused to give me a script for pain

killers or steriods....funny enough I didn't need more than straight

tylenol.

How did you ever take of your baby and yourself after surgery?

=actually the two month old well they are pretty much still baby

potatoes then, not grabbing too hard or trying to swat your face.

My husband had to take

our two and three year old daughters to his parents because it was

too much for me to have them around in the first few weeks post-op.

=lol a two and three year old are too much! I only felt badly that

my baby really didn't year my voice for a bit.

My two year is too young to understand and she kept wanting to climb

and jump all over me and touch my face. She is very attached to

Mommy and still wants to be held 90% of the time.

=yeah I have a mama's boy this time. He's a 'insomniac' not really

but compared to the nine year old who still sleeps 11 hours a night,

mister 8 hours in total all day drives me batty - his father only

does 4 on a regular day......

> Surgery 2 was to have screws removed. I think because of all the

> post partum hormones I healed too quickly and unscrewed my screws.

> So they came out.

What was that like? I would imagine getting the distractors out will

be similar. I'll find out this afternoon when my surgeon wants to

take them out.

We are our own worst critics. What may seem obvious to us looking in

the mirror, most people don't even notice. Most people are probably

a little assymetric and aren't even aware of it. I'm sure you look

fine even if your bite is still off.

=actually I think we all are, I've been watching the cnn faces,

partly because half of them have invested in their faces and most of

them are a little wonky.

Yeah I feel like I have my vet status in oral surgery. The purple

jaw? I am alot more prepared for the next one(s).

Ha-ha! But seriously, why is your opening still so limited? Was your

open bite present immediately after your BSSO or did it develop over

time? Are you having any problems with the TMJ's? Did you have them

evaluated to see if that is contributing to your open bite now or

your limited opening?

=open bite there right after but I ignored it! I also over babied

my jaw. So I went from surgery 1 to braces off and surgery 2 boom.

So the adjustment to full function was never expected to be made,

then I started to get a little worried thinking it was a relapse.

But realised it really wasn't. The second ortho (fiddlesticks')

said that the open bite brought my back teeth together so like a

wedge once they touched they can't open more...I was offered to have

my teeth ground but they are micros at 5mm tall, so 3mm would have

left me with what?

I agree. You're not nuts at all. You're the one who has to live with

the bad bite. It still amazes me how many people think we go through

all this just for cosmetic reasons.

=yeah lol. But silicone breasts are for self esteem

I do think I look better now

than I did before all the surgeries but still the reason I did all

this was to be able to eat normally and save my teeth before I did

more damage.

Having supportive husbands does help so much but of course, they

will eventually benefit from all this, too. ;-)

=lol my husband would feel more benefit if I could stretch it more

than 20mm

> However I am anxious to have my face put back the way I remember

it.

> *next could be the body too

>

Tempting, isn't it? Like, couldn't they just get rid of my pooch

(still there even when I got down to 85 lb) and fix the effects of

nursing two babies while they have me under?

=no kidding first baby for me one tiny stretch mark - ONE! Second...

well I put on a few pounds trying to get pregant then quit working

while I was pregnant stopped my narcolepsy meds so I slept all the

time and worked my way or rather weigh into a 48 pound weight gain.

Otherwise known as my myth of the 200 pound woman I was well over

200 pounds by the time I delivered the easter turkey (ten and a half

pounds and 23 inches) not a diabetic either! I realised how many

women who claimed to be 200 were probably closer to three. My brief

pit stop at fat. So having breastfed for 44 months of my life...and

yes the pouch...however I have plans for that when I am all done

with the Bate family breeding programme...then I am going to have

the leaky bladder lifted, the tubes tied, a tummy tuck complete with

those muscles sewn up tight and a pani ;)And since the breasts are

no longer needed for production then a full lift and reduction right

beside my thyriod up touching my neck

Ah the wish list...once the skin is gone its gone.

Shiloh