18 Months Post Surgery..!!!!

Well, Tomorrow, 25th October 2013, marks my 18 months anniversary post surgery.Now, there are days and days that I don't even think about the fact that I had jaw surgery. Still, I can't yawn without any pain (in fact, it feels good!), I can't bite into anything I want to (though I still don't bite into anything hard, just force of habit), I wake up and my jaw is in the right place ( Often i see dreams about my misplaced jaws) and stays there - little to no shifting. I can move my lower jaw side to side and forward/back (not as much as before, but enough to shift food around in my mouth and I don't notice the difference). Only my numb lip and chin remembers my past days and oh yeah these bands too... But i now im in break with these bands.. Not with any new reason, just because it HURTS, really hurts and that makes me crazy....!!!!!!

So finally... 18 months post surgery, I consider myself 90% back to normal in range of motion, and jaw mobility. My chin and face are still a bit numb, but it doesn't bother me in the least. infact i love the numbness,cuz that remembers me my past days.... I love my numbness. Love it, love it, LOVE it. And, I'm very pleased with my results - and very glad I went through all of that awful-ness that was jaw surgery and recovery.

Moving on to normal life, I have to work on my software testing course, but I have been studying for a test for higher studies for weeks, and had to schedule it for both morning and afternoon sections respectively. Well they were booked, but for that I need to stay at hostel so I moved to Visitation convent hostel. Food is horrible here; the two restaurants nearby are the only consolation I found. Wednesday’s menu was little different, and It was the first day I was able to truly enjoy my dinner at hostel because of my favorite menu, chapatti and chicken curry...I don’t chew everything i eat, usually at home, I keep avoiding this kind of hard food even if it is my favorite but here at hostel after almost two weeks, im seeing something eatable so I tried to consume that by applying all possible ways I can adopt to chew…. I feel my braces pulling on my teeth again, that pressure you feel after an adjustment.  Finally I felt something inside loosen or u can term it as broken!!!! A cracking sound with pain!!! Oh my God!!!!

Today I went to the Orthodontist to check the status of my braces…. He found the clip broken and asked me to visit next Tuesday to fix it up!!!