Hi everyone, sorry for my lack of posting the past few days. I’ve been sick with some viral thing and allergies, but finally I’m starting to feel better! I am up with my grandparents now—YAY—and so I should be able to write a lot more now. We put the finishing touches on my room before I left, and I hope to take some more pics with my Instax camera this week to add to these new lights I got!
And since I was sick, that meant I had plenty of time to break in my new mattress THAT I LOVE!!! It’s also so much higher up than my old one, which I really like.
We met my grandparents in our typical spot (read my whole post on spending time with them and being in their town here) and got the usual pictures!
I always love the car rides up getting to talk with my mom. Lately we’ve been talking a lot about college and my options there. I love talking about that because I find it fun to think about, and I don’t think it’s too early to start figuring out what it is I want in a college or major. And speaking of which, the other day I had an orthodontics appointment where we look at my annual pictures and x-rays of my jaw and teeth. I have the worst possible teeth and jaw ever—clearly, if you’ve ever seen my pictures. And unlike just about everyone my age, I haven’t been able to get my braces on (or off, which many my age are already getting off). We’ve had to wait for so long because my jaw has kept growing, and so of course they didn’t want to start anything with braces or whatever only to have it grow more and then need to redo things. But, and we expected this, it looks like I’ll be needing jaw surgery.
We’ve heard about this potentiality since the beginning. When you have a jaw as bad as mine, it’s probably inevitable. But my orthodontist was so sweet and assuring, promising that we could work with whatever I decide. I think that I am going to get the surgery done, though. The way they have described everything sounds like without me getting the surgery, getting braces could do something with my bites, resulting in me looking really weird without the surgery. I just hope getting the surgery doesn’t make me look uglier, but that’s why she explained that we could go meet with the surgeons, who are down in Iowa City. She said they’re really good and the ones they collaborate with, which I can believe because Iowa City has a good reputation in the medical field. I go meet the surgeons where they’ll examine me and give us more information, and then there would be more talking with my doctors after that. She said that more than likely they won’t even take me for surgery until I’m 18, so it would be awhile, but then they could finally start working on my teeth.
It wasn’t the ideal news. I was hoping to avoid surgery, especially since 18 is an inconvenient age to have it considering you’re a freshman in college, but there are ways to schedule it in, like the summer before or after. To be honest, I think it will be kind of fun getting to go down to Iowa City to meet the surgeons, especially since the building is on campus, a college I’ve been considered (it is known as the “writing university”). I’ve never been on campus or to Iowa City, so that should be fun. Also, my orthodontist told me that they have cute residents and interns there so…
#WorthIt.
Okay, well, I am going to blog deeper posts in the coming days, like my letter to my future husband in which I can warn him about his competition in Iowa City I guess 😉 So read the first one here (from 3 years ago…)! What have you all been up to? Has anyone ever had jaw surgery before?! I’ll be on a liquid diet for one month… I can’t imagine how that is going to go!
