26 July 2012
Day after surgery
Here's Rosa's Dad, Tom, to update on her progress after her surgery. Yesterday she was still out of it from the anaesthetic - and not too swollen yet. Today was a tough one - more swelling; tired after a bit of a difficult night in the hospital - and she's now got bands on so she can't talk and is a bit panicky about her breathing. The surgeon is very pleased about how the operation went, and her profile is quite changed. I'm sure tomorrow will be better.
24 July 2012
I have to be brave!!
hellooo everyone!:) well in 7 and a half hours I will be at the hospital waiting for my operation!
I am feeling quite positive about it and I'm really trying to be brave, but I keep forgetting about it and then suddenly remembering and getting a wave of fear. It just feels like I have an incredibly long journey out in front of me and its really daunting to know whats in store for me in the next weeks. I am sure everything is going to go fine though but I just feel so full of aprehnsion, I think when I wake up I'm gonna feel mega relieved to just be on the other side:)
I had such a lovely night tonight with my friend Olivia, we cooked a feast for my last proper meal! We cooked salmon and pasta and then we made a huge cake with marshmellows inbedded inside, and also a cheesecake! it was so fun:)
I will update again probably tomorrow, I'm going to make videos at the hospital as well!:)
Also I want to say a massive good luck to Erin because she is having her surgery tomorrow too! We are surgery pals:)
I am feeling quite positive about it and I'm really trying to be brave, but I keep forgetting about it and then suddenly remembering and getting a wave of fear. It just feels like I have an incredibly long journey out in front of me and its really daunting to know whats in store for me in the next weeks. I am sure everything is going to go fine though but I just feel so full of aprehnsion, I think when I wake up I'm gonna feel mega relieved to just be on the other side:)
I had such a lovely night tonight with my friend Olivia, we cooked a feast for my last proper meal! We cooked salmon and pasta and then we made a huge cake with marshmellows inbedded inside, and also a cheesecake! it was so fun:)
I will update again probably tomorrow, I'm going to make videos at the hospital as well!:)
Also I want to say a massive good luck to Erin because she is having her surgery tomorrow too! We are surgery pals:)
22 July 2012
Only 2 days left!!!
oh my gosh..............ONLY 2 DAYS aaahh!
I'm so full of anticipation!
One minute I feel scared and the next minute I feel excited, I'm like a big ball of emotion!
I've been on an eating frenzy this past week as well, I'm eating everything in sight. I think my body subconsiously knows it has to store up because I've been feeling really hungry! I'm already planning what my last proper meal will be too, I think I'm going to have pasta because thats my very favourite food and I wouldn't be able to eat that for ages after my operation:) also my friends going to come round and we're going to make a giant cake!
After the surgery as well, I think I'm going to borrow a juicer off a friend because I thought it would be really useful for making fruit juice and vegetable juice! and maybe it would be cheaper and healthier than buying heaps of different juice too.
I'm really worried about feeling lonely when I can't do much whilst I'm recovering, so I've told all my friends that they have to just come round all the time! It'll be so nice to be able to talk to people on here too:) I've also bought and borrowed dvds and books for entertainment..
I had my veryyyy last appointment with the surgeon the other day. It was a very quick appointment just to check that the wafer (or splint) that they had made for my teeth fit properly. This was a thin piece of plastic that will fit under my teeth after surgery, and they will attatch it to my braces. It will be to make sure my teeth stay in the new position. I also got to see the model of my teeth that they had made to use in my operation! It was really strange to see it and they showed me on the model how they were going to move everything and how my teeth will fit together.
I'm so full of anticipation!
One minute I feel scared and the next minute I feel excited, I'm like a big ball of emotion!
I've been on an eating frenzy this past week as well, I'm eating everything in sight. I think my body subconsiously knows it has to store up because I've been feeling really hungry! I'm already planning what my last proper meal will be too, I think I'm going to have pasta because thats my very favourite food and I wouldn't be able to eat that for ages after my operation:) also my friends going to come round and we're going to make a giant cake!
After the surgery as well, I think I'm going to borrow a juicer off a friend because I thought it would be really useful for making fruit juice and vegetable juice! and maybe it would be cheaper and healthier than buying heaps of different juice too.
I'm really worried about feeling lonely when I can't do much whilst I'm recovering, so I've told all my friends that they have to just come round all the time! It'll be so nice to be able to talk to people on here too:) I've also bought and borrowed dvds and books for entertainment..
I had my veryyyy last appointment with the surgeon the other day. It was a very quick appointment just to check that the wafer (or splint) that they had made for my teeth fit properly. This was a thin piece of plastic that will fit under my teeth after surgery, and they will attatch it to my braces. It will be to make sure my teeth stay in the new position. I also got to see the model of my teeth that they had made to use in my operation! It was really strange to see it and they showed me on the model how they were going to move everything and how my teeth will fit together.
One thing that I really love to do is make funny faces and I think it'll be so sad when I can't move my face after the surgery and make expressions! But I have to remember I will be able to sooooon, this won't be forever:)
Heres some photos of me and my friend Hana making crazy faces:D
Heres some photos of me and my friend Hana making crazy faces:D
yaayy! I'll probably post again after my operation:) Or maybe I'll do a quick post the night before too! I might make a video.
3 July 2012
My Appointment with the Surgeon!
Hello everyone!
I had my apointment with the surgeon today. This was the appointment that they had forgotton to do before, that meant my surgery had to be delayed. It was a really exciting appointment!
He did a mould, but it was a bit different to the other moulds I've had before, and he also gave me this piece of wax to bite into which was to see how my jaws come together at the moment. He basically has to construct this mini model thing of how my jaws currently open and close and how my bite is. He showed me someone elses one, and it's like a cast of the persons top and bottom teeth, but then they are attatched to this metal cage thing that opens and closes in the same way that persons jaw joint does! It's quite hard to explain.. ha:)
He looked at my face in such close detail today and spent probably like 15 minutes just getting me to open and close my mouth and bite together and things, I could tell he was really concentrating and imajining what my face will look like! He also just measured all the dimensions of my face, and at one point he put this metal cage sort of thing on my face that was for measuring the distances between my jaws and nose and mouth, it was so strange it went in my ears and 3 people had to help him put it on my face! I felt like I was in one of those films because I could just see this metal cage and 3 peoples faces looking down on meee!
I also asked lots of questions which was really useful, because until now I could only ask questions to my orthodontist and receptionists and nurses, so it was great to ask the person whos actually going to be doing the surgery! and he was really patient and answered every single thing I asked.
I asked him about the whole tongue thrust issue, and he said that was normally a problem for people who have overbites and 'anterior open bites' and that he doesn't think it'll be a problem for me. I said I'd seen that people had needed speech therapy after surgery to help them adjust to talking with their new jaws, and he agreed that maybe I would possibly need that as my bite really affects my speech and it makes my pronounciation sound quite unclear and muffled. So I'm going to see a speech lady before my operation and probably after too! So thats, cool and he said they make a recording of your voice! wow!
He also warned me about how different I was going to look, which no one has really said to me before. He said,
'You do realise you are going to look incredibly different after the surgery don't you? Friends will walk past you on the street and not recognise you'.
I think I'll be ok with that, but it is really strange to think about. It's going to be alot to get used to... because your face is so integral to your identity so for it to change in such a dramatic way, will be hard to adjust to. He also stressed that he thought I'll look really good though, so I'm not really worried!:) And I think my friends will get used to it really fast. I asked him as well, if I'd still look like myself and he said I definately would so thats good:)
Another thing he said was that hes going to move my jaw slightly to the left! He says my chins a bit wonky! I had no idea.. haa! but then afterwards I looked at it in the mirror and it does actually veer to the right slightly! So thats interesting. He says the movements of my jaws will be:
top jaw- 3 mm forward and 3 mm up
bottom jaw- 6mm back and slightly to the left
He also said I'd have a splint between my teeth for 1-2 weeks after surgery. I think it was a splint anyway, he actually called it a 'wafer' but he showed me one of them and it looked exactly like the splints people have had in the blogs I've seen:) The wafer thing is to make sure your teeth are in the correct position.
He said as well that I won't be banded or wired shut for the first day after surgery, and then on the second day he'll put elastic bands on. I thought this was strange because I'd imajine the first day would be when your jaws would be most vulnrable but I'll be able to move my mouth straight afterwards so that'll be nice. And it will also mean I probably won't struggle to breath when I first wake up which is something that was worrying me because I'd read that a lot of people get that when they first wake up!
I have another appointment with my surgeon in 2 weeks time so I'll do another post then:)
I had my apointment with the surgeon today. This was the appointment that they had forgotton to do before, that meant my surgery had to be delayed. It was a really exciting appointment!
He did a mould, but it was a bit different to the other moulds I've had before, and he also gave me this piece of wax to bite into which was to see how my jaws come together at the moment. He basically has to construct this mini model thing of how my jaws currently open and close and how my bite is. He showed me someone elses one, and it's like a cast of the persons top and bottom teeth, but then they are attatched to this metal cage thing that opens and closes in the same way that persons jaw joint does! It's quite hard to explain.. ha:)
He looked at my face in such close detail today and spent probably like 15 minutes just getting me to open and close my mouth and bite together and things, I could tell he was really concentrating and imajining what my face will look like! He also just measured all the dimensions of my face, and at one point he put this metal cage sort of thing on my face that was for measuring the distances between my jaws and nose and mouth, it was so strange it went in my ears and 3 people had to help him put it on my face! I felt like I was in one of those films because I could just see this metal cage and 3 peoples faces looking down on meee!
I also asked lots of questions which was really useful, because until now I could only ask questions to my orthodontist and receptionists and nurses, so it was great to ask the person whos actually going to be doing the surgery! and he was really patient and answered every single thing I asked.
I asked him about the whole tongue thrust issue, and he said that was normally a problem for people who have overbites and 'anterior open bites' and that he doesn't think it'll be a problem for me. I said I'd seen that people had needed speech therapy after surgery to help them adjust to talking with their new jaws, and he agreed that maybe I would possibly need that as my bite really affects my speech and it makes my pronounciation sound quite unclear and muffled. So I'm going to see a speech lady before my operation and probably after too! So thats, cool and he said they make a recording of your voice! wow!
He also warned me about how different I was going to look, which no one has really said to me before. He said,
'You do realise you are going to look incredibly different after the surgery don't you? Friends will walk past you on the street and not recognise you'.
I think I'll be ok with that, but it is really strange to think about. It's going to be alot to get used to... because your face is so integral to your identity so for it to change in such a dramatic way, will be hard to adjust to. He also stressed that he thought I'll look really good though, so I'm not really worried!:) And I think my friends will get used to it really fast. I asked him as well, if I'd still look like myself and he said I definately would so thats good:)
Another thing he said was that hes going to move my jaw slightly to the left! He says my chins a bit wonky! I had no idea.. haa! but then afterwards I looked at it in the mirror and it does actually veer to the right slightly! So thats interesting. He says the movements of my jaws will be:
top jaw- 3 mm forward and 3 mm up
bottom jaw- 6mm back and slightly to the left
He also said I'd have a splint between my teeth for 1-2 weeks after surgery. I think it was a splint anyway, he actually called it a 'wafer' but he showed me one of them and it looked exactly like the splints people have had in the blogs I've seen:) The wafer thing is to make sure your teeth are in the correct position.
He said as well that I won't be banded or wired shut for the first day after surgery, and then on the second day he'll put elastic bands on. I thought this was strange because I'd imajine the first day would be when your jaws would be most vulnrable but I'll be able to move my mouth straight afterwards so that'll be nice. And it will also mean I probably won't struggle to breath when I first wake up which is something that was worrying me because I'd read that a lot of people get that when they first wake up!
I have another appointment with my surgeon in 2 weeks time so I'll do another post then:)
1 July 2012
Surgery Delayed until The 25th......
Hi everyone!:) Well, I have lots to tell............
I have just been on holiday to Amsterdam, which was amaaazing but I got some really disapointing news while I was there. My Mum called me up halfway through the holiday to say my surgery had to be delayed until the 25th of July! I was so upset at the time because I had completely prepared myself for the July the 2nd date and I felt really ready, I even cried on the phone! I feel ok about it now though, and am just going to make use of these three weeks and have fun until the surgery comes:)
I'm really vague about the details because obviously I couldn't talk to the jaw surgery people from Amsterdam, but my Mum said the receptionist said something like that they forgot to do a vital stage in preparing for surgery! She said they said it was something to do with working out exactly how my bite is so that the surgeon will be able to know exactly how to move my jaws in the operation. So I reckon it'll be something like a mould, which is annoying since I think I've have about 100 of those! ha:)
I'm going in to see the surgeon on the 3rd so that he can do whatever it is he forgot to do, so I'll find out more then.
It's really frustrating but I'm just glad they managed to still give me a July date and that it wasn't delayed more, It's only 3 weeks so I can handle it:)
I also had an incredible time in Holland we did so much fun stuff! Here are some holiday photos...
I have just been on holiday to Amsterdam, which was amaaazing but I got some really disapointing news while I was there. My Mum called me up halfway through the holiday to say my surgery had to be delayed until the 25th of July! I was so upset at the time because I had completely prepared myself for the July the 2nd date and I felt really ready, I even cried on the phone! I feel ok about it now though, and am just going to make use of these three weeks and have fun until the surgery comes:)
I'm really vague about the details because obviously I couldn't talk to the jaw surgery people from Amsterdam, but my Mum said the receptionist said something like that they forgot to do a vital stage in preparing for surgery! She said they said it was something to do with working out exactly how my bite is so that the surgeon will be able to know exactly how to move my jaws in the operation. So I reckon it'll be something like a mould, which is annoying since I think I've have about 100 of those! ha:)
I'm going in to see the surgeon on the 3rd so that he can do whatever it is he forgot to do, so I'll find out more then.
It's really frustrating but I'm just glad they managed to still give me a July date and that it wasn't delayed more, It's only 3 weeks so I can handle it:)
I also had an incredible time in Holland we did so much fun stuff! Here are some holiday photos...
18 June 2012
My Art Foundation Exhibition
Hello jaw surgery world!:) My art course that I have been on for the past year has completely finished now, I'm so sad because I've loved it so much, It's been so much fun! I've met so many incredible people and made amazing friends, and have been left to go completely wild and just fully express myself with my art. I've discovered so much about how I like to work, and it has been so wonderful to be around such talented people, I've been in heaven! The other day was our exhibition opening, it felt soo amazing for people to finally be able to see the work that we've all been slaving away on for so many months, I think our exhibition was really great, everyones work was so good in such different ways there was so much variety. I had such a good night, I brought my parents and one of my very best friends Olivia. Then after the exhibition me, Olivia and some of my other friends went to see a live band! It was so much fun:)
Heres a photo of me next to my exhibition...
Heres a photo of me next to my exhibition...
My project was about my family, so each of the models in the picture represent a member of my family. Their bodies are made of objects that have history of use within the house, and some of the objects represent the individual's personality!:)
My surgery is in 2 weeks now, I'm feeling quite ok about it, I go through waves of feeling really scared but I'm trying to think really positively about the whole thing generally:) My neighbour Mike works in the hospital that I'll have my surgery in, and he came round the other day to tell me he spoke to the guy who will be my anesthetist for the operation and he says he told him he has to look after me as I'm his neighbour! he says the guys really nice so thats good
I'm going on holiday on Sunday to Amsterdam I'm so excited! It's such a perfect thing to happen before my operation it'll completely take my mind off any nasty surgery thoughts. Then we get back the day before my surgery! So I'll have no time to just sit there worrying yaayyy
3 June 2012
The Olden Days
I love looking through old photos, It's crazy to see how much has changed! I think after my jaw surgery I'll look more like I did when I was little:) My teeth fitted together normally when I had my baby teeth.
It's less than a month until my surgery now! I'm starting to get quite scared..... I couldn't sleep last night because I couldn't stop thinking about it! Also, I wanted to ask everyone, I am planning to go on holiday to Holland the week before my surgery. Do you think thats a good idea? I said to my friend that I want to wait until I know when my pre op appointment is before we book anything but shes had operations before and she thinks it probably wouldn't be a problem to change the date of the pre op... but I just don't want to do anything that might get interfere with the surgery! Especially since I was originally going to have a september date and that they've worked really hard to fit me in in July.
Anyway, I need to ring up because I still haven't got any of the information in the post that they said they'd send me and I want to ask when I'll find out when my pre op thing is, but they're not open for ages because it's a bank holiday weekend doh!
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