Day 18/ Yeah! I Can See My Cheek Bones Again!

Well my swelling is officially gone now I think. Since beginning antibiotics last night, I awoke this morning to the old face I used to know. Until I smile that is! LOL.. Expansion is almost finished. One turn left tomorrow morning and I will be officially done! Wooo Hooo! OMG my mouth feels huge! I can't get over how much space there is now, its crazy! My smile looks gigantic! Definitely not the smile I recognize or that I'm used to seeing. My son says it doesn't look that big, but when I compare it to my other pre expansion pics I think there is a tremendous difference. What do you think??? I guess it sorta has to be your mouth to really notice the difference huh?



Something happened with tonight's expansion and talking all of a sudden got a bit easier. Perhaps because the appliance is now closer to the roof of my mouth it doesn't impede my speech quite as much. Whatever it is, I will take it as talking has been excruciating for the last couple of weeks. My mom says I sound like Lily Tomlin when she used to play 'Edith Anne" yeah, she is dating herself, but sad part is....I knew exactly who she was talking about, and...She was right? I do sound like her. :(

Last night I slept with my rubberbands on to hold my jaw forward. I finally got a good nights sleep! I did wake up a couple of time from my teeth hurting and had to move my rubberbands to opposite sides, but it was worth it as I slept pretty well for the rest of the night. Tomorrow I have an appointment to go check out a CPAP machine. Not sure if it is going to work for me or not, but I want to see if it will.

Tomorrow I will post a collage of expansion pics so you can see the progress from beginning to end. It is pretty cool to compare each pic since day one. It makes it much more noticeable. Especially for those of you who want visuals on this whole process (like I did.)