Emily Dawn had her surgery about 2 to 3 weeks ago. When she had her braces put on they noticed her teeth didn't pull into place exactly right and that her sinus/ear/pallet of her mouth was aching and hurting. After some review they found her jaw was way out of alignment and causing the problem.
A trip to Indy for an 8 hour surgery...they broke her top jaw, bottom jaw and set them back into place. Then they broke and moved the bone going to her chin and put her chin in the right location. Less than 3 days later she was home and on her liquid diet.
Fast forward to today and they removed her splint in her mouth and one set of screws. She's doing awesome!! She only missed four days of school and has been slatted to return to work this week. She's one tough cookie!!
She really liked her cards and her care package full of Diva Needed Supplies...colorful straws, tiny spoons, pudding, jello, water flavoring you name it ;)
We sure do love the girl and are so very happy she's progressing so well. She's had her moments of frustration...you can't really understand her when she talks, embarrassment over trying to eat in public and such...but she's keeping her chin up and knows that soon she'll be all done with it :)
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