Countdown: Surgery Day!

Today is the big day! I have to be at the hospital in 3 and a half hours, and my surgery is probably at 11 or 12. I had a great last day of food yesterday, lunch at Cheesecake Factory and dinner at Mazatlan. The  owner even made my favorite potato tacos that aren't on the menu :) I will update again after surgery!

Countdown: TWENTY SEVEN HOURS!

Dun dun dun dunnnn. The final countdown has begun. I am really nervous and excited! A lot less than I was for my preop though for some reason. It has been a great week so far. I am coaching a soccer team and we had our first practice Monday, then we went to go pick up my mom's friend and her family from the airport! hopefully the rest of the week will go just as smoothly :) Tomorrow I am having my "final dinner" at my favorite mexican restaurant with friends and family, then SURGERY DAY!

Wish me luck!

Dinner on Tuesday

Soccer practice today!

Lunch with dear friends at Cheesecake Factory on day before surgery

Dinner with family and friends visiting from Mexico

my last Starbucks before surgery, check out the spelling of my name!

Countdown: 5 days! Its on Friday!

The surgery is on Friday! I can officially say that now, yay! I pretty much have everything I need that isn't food related. I'm probably going food shopping today or tomorrow.

Even with my super obsessive research and being prepared for everything the surgeon told me, I was still caught off guard by one thing. I have to get a bone graft taken from my hip, eeek! And for some reason I am more worried about that than anything else. I already wont be able to communicate very much, but having a sore hip is just making it worst.

My surgeon also told me that I may or may not need a splint to hold my bite in place, it just depends on how the thinks my bite would hold up. I personally do want to the splint because my jaw tends to click at night and sort of fall to the side (gross I know, sorry!), and I'm really scared that will happen after surgery and I will wake up crooked!

Going to my pre anesthesia appointment made me feel a lot better about the surgery because now I know exactly where we have to go, where the OR is, and pretty much how the whole day will go. On Friday morning we are having a meeting with the surgeon so he can explain to us exactly what he will be doing. I will definitely have to stay one night, but my mom thinks its a good idea to stay two nights because we have a longish drive home and she doesn't want me to get nauseous. Oh! I just remembered that the surgeon also told us that after surgery they have a nutritionist come in to make sure that I am eating enough when I get home, and she will give us some tips on what to eat! And some other people will also come by but I dont remember what they will do. I think one person is going to come to talk to us about making a schedule for when to take my medication and antibiotics. Really helpful because after I got my wisdom teeth taken out I was sleeping alot so I wasnt staying on any sort of schedule and I ended up having a really long recovery time.

Yay, only FIVE more days!!!!



I can't wait until my achy jaw goes away!

Countdown: 6 days! and a walk through memory lane :)

My family was going through old photo albums the other day and I found this picture from when I was 10! this is post phase 1 treatment with top braces on only my first four teeth. Although my teeth did touch, it was because my bottoms were growing towards the tops. As my bottom jaw kept growing, by bottom teeth    stayed slanted back, so when I got braces on my bottom teeth last year, my teeth were made to face upright therefore making my underbite seem more noticeable. Also, is the top middle picture I have a slight cant to the left, but now I have a slight cant to the right. hmmm.

Countdown: 7 days!

When I first got to my pre-op appointment, I played with the little kids toys! Oh, the joys of surgery at Children's Hospital! 

Mini Piano!

Then I got some SUPER attractive pictures taken.

x-rays

Molds for splint

My amazing team! Jessica did all my x-rays, pictures and molds. Dr. Egbert is my surgeon, and the other guy is the resident.

Then I went to the pre anesthesia clinic at the main hospital for a short vist with an RN, and we were on our way home! Long, productive day :)

Countdown: 11 daysss

Only 11 more days! Tomorrow I go see me lovely orthodontists Drs. Fey and Grey, and one of them will put some very ugly surgical hooks on my teeth :( But im excited! And to celebrate my mom, sister and I are going to our favorite chinese restaurant. 

Then on Friday I have my PRE OP!!! Dont really know why I am excited to be in a hospital for 6 hours, but I am :) 

I think I have everything ready, except for food, because I dont want it to go bad or anything. 

Oh, and I just realized I never posted a picture of my bite, so here it is! Yes it really is that bad. 

okaybye :)

Countdown: 15 days!

Countdown: 15 days! Just trying out blogger moblie, I can update my blog through text!