Week One Down

I’m starting this blog a little late. A week late, to be exact. I had bilateral lower jaw surgery to fix TMJ, 7 days ago, and I will have my jaw wired shut for 4 weeks. The wires will then be replaced with bands for another 4 weeks.

My purpose for starting this blog is to document the healing process. While everyone’s journey is different, I find it very helpful to hear different stories, and get different ideas, and ways, to deal with it all. After continuously searching, I was kind of bummed to find a lack of blogs. The ones I did find were pretty informative, and detailed. So, I figured, Why not add to the tiny pond? Hopefully I can help someone out. What do I eat? What should I expect? How does it feel? There’s so many questions I had. Of course, the best way to have those questions answered is to find out firsthand, but for anyone who is like me and likes to know as much information as possible, reading other people’s experiences is helpful.

As I said before, everyone’s experiences are different, but why not compare stories, and get an idea of what to look forward to?? Here I will update my pain levels, swelling, “eating,” and new recipes aka concoctions I will be trying out. I will also keep track of weight loss or gain. I found the perfect way to turn cake into a milkshake, so I might be that small percent that gains weight lol. I’m going to tell you the truth; the good, the bad, the ugly, the gross.

 Don’t worry, I’m going to back track and document from pre-op until now.

*~ Angela S.