A huge WTF?! moment

I promised I would be completely honest with what it's like to have your jaw wired shut. This is definitely not something I found on other blogs. It's gross, but it's a possibility, or maybe it's common. I'm waiting to hear back from my doctor to find out. Whatever the case may be, I wish someone would've told me about this beforehand.

So, it was starting to feel like I had something stuck on the back of my tongue. I thought it was my medication, since I have to grind up the pills I was on before surgery. After the third day, it hit me. I haven't been able to brush my tongue in almost 2 1/2 weeks. I was immediately petrified of what might be on my tongue. I had bought those little brush things that you use to clean in between your teeth. I was unable to use them, because after having braces as a child, my teeth are close together, and it just wouldn't fit through. I was able to teach it right underneath my front tooth. It was enough to scrape the tip of my tongue. To my horror white fuzzy stuff came out, adn it was a lot of it. I went ballistic. I'm an avid teeth and tongue brusher, so not being able to do it has been driving me crazy, over everything else.

I don't know if it's thrush, or just a build of from the liquid diet, but I still don't want to drink anything. I spent 45 minutes in the bathroom swishing a hydrogen peroxide and water mix. It definitely worked. I was foaming out the mouth for over an hour, while I sat in bed, but my tongue felt clean, and I watched a lot of white stuff go down the drain. I scraped my tongue the best I could with the tooth brush thing I was talking about, and that helped.

I'm seriously thinking about going to the store today and buying those wire things you used as a kid to make arts and crafts. Pipe cleaners? And seeing if I can fit that in my mouth and scrape the sh*t out of my tongue, until I hear back from my doctor.

Lord help me! It took everything in me to not grab the wire cutters that my doctor gave me and  cut my wires off, so that I could clean my mouth out. But I withheld. I'm going to keep swishing with the hydrogen peroxide until I can get my mouth open.

So there you go! An honest truth about what to expect when you have your jaw wired shut. Once I find out if it's "normal", but disgusting, build up, or thrush I will let you know.