One Year Today

So how my face has changed. I notice. Not everyone who doesn't know about the surgery, can see the difference. I love that my teeth can break down food in the back when masticating (=chewing; throwing out a favorite word).

 

I just have to show you a flash back the morning after surgery leaving the hospital. Eww.

And don't forget about the bruising - yikes.

Well a lot has changed. Love, love not having the braces on anymore. My face is still numb; a constant fullness to my lower lip. Fells like it is big and puffy when I talk and touch it - but it's not, it's normal size.

I can't bite into an apple. You would think after all this I would be able...maybe it is just a fear of breaking something - but I am good with just cutting it up with a knife.

Love to smile in a picture now. Don't know what my bottom lip is doing when I smile, but I don't care. LMAO.

Thanks everyone who stood by me. Especially my now husband - Jim. Who purred food, medicated me, fluffed my pillows, listen to me have a meltdown, listened to me plan a wedding in Scotland, and be stressed out all at the same time - AND yes he still married me.