To Cammie -- Re: Surgical Hooks and Wires - Less Confused - More Emotional

[Guest guest]

,slightly off the subject, but your son is the exact, (okay,

my daughter is 2 hours older) age of my daughter. Aren't four year

olds sweet? My surgery is this week, but yours is scheduled on MY

birthday. Hope you follow Cammie's advice and listen to the experts

over the non-experts. :-) Just had to fill you on those date

coincidences! Alix

> > , if you wanna cry, cry. No harm in that. It is not at

all

> > unusual to have volatile emotions both before and after these

> > procedures.

> >

> > Your best step, I think, is to keep remembering that you trust

your

> > experts, and have put your confidence in them.

> >

> > > My husband was leaning toward having me get both

> > > upper and lower because he didn't want to look at slanted

teeth

> > when

> > > looking at me.

> >

> > Forgive me if this is answering more than you asked, but that

> sounds

> > like something that would have really made me mad, had it

happened

> to

> > me. Your husband wants you to have more surgery than your

doctors

> > recommend, because he doesn't want to look at slanted teeth?????

> > Huh????? What if you had NO teeth?

> >

> > That just doesn't sound particularly kind or supportive to me,

and

> it

> > also sounds to me as though he thinks that these procedures are

> > purely cosmetic, which they seldom are -- although I find no

fault

> > with cosmetic procedures, mind you. If I am being unduly

critical,

> > please forgive me. I don't mean to butt into your business, or

> > disrupt your family peace. I just hope that he will find nicer

and

> > more constructive things to say to you from here on.

> >

> > cammie