20 days post op!

some good before and after comparisons taken today! Don't judge my under pics. It's the only way I could show the extent of my overbite and how much it's fixed, I'm fully aware that this angle is not flattering haha

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2K17! I brought in my year with a kiss from the love of my life. Too bad I could only feel it with my top lip, hahaha not. Anyway, I made it into my 20s! It's like day 10 but better. I'm eating spaghetti os to celebrate. I'm still eating the same type of stuff but with more options I'm not hungry much and time goes by a lot quicker. My incision sites are bumpy and scarred. I have been doing exercises with my lips to help break down scar tissue and expand my ability to open my mouth. I hear these restrictions can be permanent if you don't exercise and work the skin a lot after the stitches are dissolved. I just smile really big and pucker my lips. I feel significant stretching and I personally believe it's helping. I started using listerine to help keep my mouth clean yesterday. I highly recommend waiting until AT LEAST 2 weeks to do this. Maybe even longer. The alcohol is not good for suture sites and could severely irritate it and you don't want that. I'd like to address something I read online. I read other blogs because I'm still going through recovery and although I'm doing better it's nice to see how my recovery correlates with others. Anyway, I saw a guy straight up say this isn't a big deal of a surgery and that people blow it out of proportion. Idk what he had done or when (or if he even did LOL) but I'd like to say that this is a HUGE deal. I'm doing a lot better now, but I still sleep most of the day and I'm still unable to chew for the most part. Maybe he had a single jaw surgery or something minor but he compared it to having your wisdom teeth out. I've had my wisdom teeth out too and yes the pain in the lower jaw can be comparable to an extent but this is so much bigger. I mean I was in the hospital for 36 hours post op. Oh well. That made me a little mad because it's really misleading. I wouldn't have survived without my family and Cody doing everything for me. Anyway, tomorrow is 3 weeks post op and I definitely feel good knowing I've made it this far. Finally. That's all I have to say.