What to tell them post surgery... Almost a top ten list...

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I keep adding to my list so when I've got chipmunk cheeks this summer

I'll have those 'snappy answers' already written on my whiteboard.

Here's the top 9 list as gathered from this and site 2 over the past

year...

1. I had a bizarre sex accident (adults only)

2. Too much fizz in my Coke can

3. I had a run in with a rabid moose

4. Elephant sat on my head

5. Beware the black jelly beans!!!

6. Got my head stuck in the drive through window trying to get extra

ketchup

7. It's what happens if you hold your personal gas for too long!!!

8. I just had jaw surgery, what's your excuse?

9. I had a run in with a pack of killer bees

Dammit

> > Hi Cammie,

> > Really, trust Beau to come up with lines like that. I wish I

could

> > take him to work next week when I'm sure I'll hear lots more

things

> > like that.

> >

> > Actually, I'm not the first patient with the distractors. My

> surgeon

> > has done a lot of them and many much larger than mine. He has

even

> > used distraction to rebuild an entire half of a mandible after it

> > was resected to remove a cancerous tumor. I was just the first

for

> > this particular kind of distractor. He had modified a more

> > traditional type to specifically rebuild condyles. I just wish I

> > could go to the conferences in person to demonstrate the

> distractors

> > since medical conferences tend to be in really nice locations.

> > Better yet, I wouldn't mind going to Germany to meet the

> > manufacturers ;-). I still think it is pretty amazing and am very

> > grateful for this relatively new technology. I never would have

> > thought that this could be done either.

> >

> > My husband is the one who deserves the medal though. I have not

> > always been as patient as I should have been and he's been the

one

> > to get the brunt of my frustrations. Then again, working an

average

> > shift in the ER puts things in perspective for me and I know that

I

> > really have very little to complain about. Thanks for ever being

> the

> > supportive one.

> >

> >