Decision to move on

It's my one year anniversary yesterday and I had appointment with Dr. Rodney. I thought I'll discuss about de-banding with Dr. Rodney (my ortho) but as I doubted my request is been rejected. When I went in he wasn't ready to listen me first but when I insisted gave me an explanation for the elastics issue that i discussed in my second last post..  Apparently after surgery your jaw muscles really really want to go back to their old position so they pull on your bones to go back the way things were before. They weren't strong enough to hold everything in place as my jaw muscles were fighting to return to their old position.so the bone could relapse if i quit that here…. I asked him how??? The cut and joined bone, how can they set back???? Scientifically it’s wrong, he replied very patiently see many people have the misconception that bones are the most rigid and strongest part of our body, before getting into the medical field I was also in that belief but its just opposite to what we think, bone is the most flexible part of our body we could size and shape it however we like to have. For example, have you seen the Tibetan’s wearing rings to around neck in order to elongate that and Pakistani’s wearing turbans to make head pointed likewise we are applying pressure to move bone through teeth. Now it’s like we are banding a thing to elongate. The muscles which keep the teeth fixed inside bone will hurt for some time when you band it after it will stop hurting. But when you stop it, it’s like banding and de-banding, the muscles which ties the teeth to the bone get disturb more that’s why its hurts more. Now you have elastics to overlap the upper teeth with the lower teeth, there’s no way other than this elastics.  See, we started from a fragile and weakest condition there nothing to expect without pain and still it like that.  I agree that it hurt, I could understand but I’ll ask you to bear it, I will get you more soft elastics if you can’t bear this. I don’t like you are quitting here.  I explained all problems which I’m having with this braces. He was empathetic but adamant. I knew his character so I stopped arguing. I think it’s pretty cool though how your muscles want to go back to the way they were... What if i didn't have jaw surgery, but rather was punched in the face by some unsavory individual and my face was messed up?  My awesome jaw muscles would be working hard to put everything back together! Anyway. I'm really hoping everything will stabilize soon because i want these braces OFF!  So far no idea when the estimated removal day is going to be.....  And for those just dying to know the condition of the nerves in the left side of my chin and lower lip - no improvements recently.  I have slight feeling but its incredibly annoying.If i touch my chin, I know I'm touching it - but i get a very tingly sensation.  If water is dripping down my chin i definitely don't feel it at all.  If my sheets rub against my face while I’m in bed i feel like sand paper is scraping across my face.  It’s quite horrible.  Occasionally, I get random tingles in my chin, and sometimes some pain shoots through - luckily this is rare though.  I sometimes get pain along my jaw line... but according to my surgeon all of this is depends on persons after surgery as the nerves are healing and reconnecting.  Fun stuff. There is no point in arguing with him. He is soo dedicated to his work and which put me on a great surprise. But he misunderstood me like I don’t have enough patience to listen him. He said you don’t care about this bone stuff eh?? You all worrying about your pain aren’t you?? I tried to explain no!!! But he didn’t listen. Honestly speaking I love listening to these lectures about my treatment. How will I make him understand I don’t know!! Then he wired my upper and lower teeth carefully and assured me that he’ll bring soft elastics next time when we meet. He pleaded once again to keep wearing elastics.