Right Jaw Pain: 0/10
Hip Pain: 1/10
Inconvenience factor: 3/10
Hipbone bits in my cheek 1/10
With the Christmas Silly Season I must apologise for missing a blog week! Far too much was going on and I became horribly distracted!
I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas with family and friends and savoured EVERY mouthful of food that you CHEWED! Sadly, I was not so fortunate. I am still failing to successfully accomplish that fundamental and most basic of skills.....chewing. Aaargh!!!
So my Christmas feasts were limited to things I could essentially mash! I shouldn't really complain - Roast veggies with gravy are pretty yummy and I can stuff many desserts and things of chocolately goodness into my mouth!!!
I guess you might be wondering what the problem with chewing is??? It's a combination of things really.....
- I can't open my mouth very widely so only small things can go in
- I still have lots of numbness in my mouth and can't tell where the food is
- My teeth especially the molars don't meet properly yet (we're working on it)
- My still internally swollen cheek still gets in the way and unwittingly chomped on
- The muscles in my jaw joints are not very strong and achieving pressure is difficult
- The jaw muscles are also not very happy when stretched or moved 'wrongly' and give incredibly painful feedback
I did receive a great Christmas present though.....FINALLY my X-RAYS! Woo Hoo! My face is full of metal - plates, screws, pins - check it out!
C - shows you where the first cut was made.
A - shows where the jaw ended up splitting very unfavourably
B - shows where the surgeon had to cut/break my jaw to complete the surgery.
Just below A you can see three pins that were used to hold the broken jaw all together.
D - shows the pin used to attach the hip bone to my cheek.
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