Re: hiya irish!!!!

[Guest guest]

Hiya Irish,

glad to hear that you are ok. It is nice to hear that your 2nd

surgery went ok and things are settling down and stable! I have

tried to get on to the photos, but it says that there is an error on

the page? dont know what thats all about tho! strange!!

once i will let me on i will take a look at your photos on site two

tho. i should really get some recent onesof me put up. i never got

chance to before i went to university.

I bet that was a really nice day to meet up with dolfan. i would

love to be able to meet up with all you guys. i know a girl from my

home town who is having surgery in the new year. she is actually

having it in the city-i live in now, whilst i am at uni. so i am

going to visit her in the hospital. it would be really nice to meet

people who have had the surgeries already.

As for the braces i really dont know why i have to wear them for the

next 12 years. i thought he was winding me up, but he wasnt. i am

willing to go along with it, if it keeps everything together. i

didnt know whether it was because i could still be growing, though i

dont grow in height!! lol. Are you still wearing braces?

Uni is great! I am studying art and design. At the moment we are

doing a project on NUDES!!! fun lol....

Regards,

Kat_UK

> > Hiya All, Hope that everyone long memebers and neware

progressing

> > well in their journeys!

> >

> > Its been a while since i have posted. Since going to university

i

> > havent had the chance to post.

> >

> > As a reminder, my name is Kat,i am 18 and i live in the UK. I

had

> a

> > class III underbite. In april 2002 i had surgery to remove my

> > wisdom teeth, then on the 1st of august (2002) i had double jaw

> > surgery to correct the underbite. the sugery lasted about 7 1/2-

8

> > hours. pain was minimal, any i had could be easily subsided

with a

> > personal morphene clicker. i was in hospital for 4 nights, and

was

> > banded for 6 weeks, fortunaltey i was note wired shut. i

followed a

> > liquid diet for about 8 weeks, then progressed to mushy, for a

> > further few months, it took a while to get onto solids,

especially

> > meats.

> >

> > over a year on, i am still wearing braces (until i am 30). As a

> new

> > techinque, the surgeons decided to use a new material during

> > surgery, with my consent. they used dissolveable plates and

screws

> > as apposed to the titanium ones. i can still feel the screws,

just

> > under each eye, by my nose, they cause no bother, and my surgeon

> > sees no need to extract them. it is estimated they last 9

months,

> > full strength, and then the following 9 months they begin to

> > dissolve.

> >

> > if anyone would like any more info or to discuss

> > anything/experiences, etc. please feel free to ask me. or email

> me,

> > on this email

> >

> > hope you guys, susan, cammie, irish, tracy, kristin, katie, all

> > those who i used to talk to are progressing nicely, its nice to

see

> > that you guys always stay active!!!

> >

> > Good luck for all thise going into surgery, YOU WILL BE FINE!!!

> >

> > regards

> >

> > Kat_uk