Yesterday I got some braces put on the back five teeth on each side of my lower jaw - the first step towards having good tooth structure. While they certainly are annoying (and I keep getting food stuck in them), they haven't caused me too much trouble yet. In addition to those, I also had four spacers put in between teeth on each side of my upper jaw so that the orthodontist can anchor an arch expander next month. These things have been the biggest pain in the teeth, so to speak, because they are putting major pressure on every tooth on my upper jaw and hurt like hell! I ate sushi for lunch yesterday, which wasn't so bad because uncooked fish is nice and soft and my teeth hadn't started hurting too much at that point. Last night I tried to eat some potato salad and couldn't hardly bear it. Shooting for the soft foods, I ate oatmeal this morning but I couldn't even chew it, I just swallowed the oats whole. It's really annoying. If it doesn't stop hurting, I might have to break my personal covenant and actually use tylenol or aspirin or whatever for once.
I guess next month I'll be having the first of my two jaw surgeries, where they split the bone in my upper jaw down the middle so they can widen everything (with the arch expander). Uggh. I guess things will get worse before they get better. One day down, 18 months to go....
As part of my recovery, I went shopping afterwards down Fifth Avenue. I was actaully on my way to the library to return my Eastern Europe travel books (R.I.P), but couldn't resist stopping into Mexx and H&M to see if there were any good deals for me to squander my hard-earned cash on. Of course there were - $9 long sleeve shirts at H&M and a neat, textured, white button-up short-sleeved shirt for me at Mexx. As usual on the weekends, there was some sort of parade happening on Fifth Avenue, but nobody seemed to really know what was going on. Another day, another parade on Fifth Ave!
J. Riley, liquid diet for me!
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