The weirdest feeling ever!

Well, we are still blending away. Tomorrow is Sarah's checkup in Halifax. It will be two weeks on Thurs. I really (REALLY) hope they put loose enough elastics on so she can can something in her mouth like pasta. This diet is getting old for her very fast. She has lost about 6lbs. Had to make a new hole in her belt because her pants were falling down. The swelling is really going down. Now she looks like someone who just got their wisdom teeth out, and the bruising is almost gone. Yesterday, Connor was harrowing (sp?) a field for Jeff. He was driving the big John Deere cab tractor. I can't believe he can drive that, but the field was flat, so he was having a blast. The weird feeling??? When I went to pick him up, Sarah came with me and I let her drive down the dirt road to the field to pick him up. He was not quite done when we got there, so I let her drive up and down a few times. Okay, so sitting in the passenger seat when your kid is in the drivers seat.....that is the weirdest feeling ever. She did really well, did not go too fast, just wanted her to get used to what the truck feels like. She was so excited, it was kind of nice to see a smile (as close as she can smile right now) on her face again. Neither one of us is ready for the open road yet, but that will come soon enough. If anyone can figure out how to slow time down a little I would love to know, cause I don't care for how quickly my two kids are growing up.

Celebrate the tiny victories!

We found a way to make instant potatoes and put them in a syringe and Sarah can squirt them thru her teeth. Sound yummy! She sure thinks so right now. Poor kid she was so hungry this morning when she woke up. The scale said she was 99.4 and she is normally 105. I was starting to panic about this. She is eating them now and says her belly feels better, not so empty. I'm trying to figure out how to get my own jaw wired shut, cause I think that is really the answer.

Plugging away....should I say blending away.

Do you know how limiting a liquid diet is? Especially for a kid who is not crazy about smoothies. I don't get how you can not love smoothies. Sarah says it's the bubbles?? I think she panics whenever she hears the blender. Her swelling is starting to go down and the bruises are turning green/yellow, not quite as pretty as the purple was. We went for a walk together yesterday, to try and get her some fresh air. She was tired when we got back and had a little nap. I told her that was normal, as it takes days for the anaesthetic to get out of your system. We thought of a few more things to try to drink, so I will get them this morning. I will have to get her to step on the scale, worried about how much she is losing, funny I worry about the opposite when I step on the scale. Last night we got the computerized phone call from the school saying she missed more than one class....duh...I will have to call and remind them yet again that she had surgery, don't want that call every night for two weeks.

Recovey time

Well, now it is all about recovering and healing. Sarah was a trooper and came thru her surgery really well. The hardest thing I did was have to let her go to a total stranger and make her way around that corner and lose control of my daughter. We were hugging each other so tight and I know she told me at least five times in jus

t a few seconds she loved me. She had an IV where she got antibiotics and steroids (for swelling) for the first 24 hours. Morphine by needle for the first 12 hours or so and then pain is manageable with just extra strength Tylenol (liquid). The swelling and bruising is harder for her to deal with. She is embarrassed at how she looks, the first thing she said when she saw herself was that she had a double chin. She said she will make sure she is never obese because she knows now what she would look like. (like that could happen) Today I do not think she is anymore swollen than yesterday, so maybe this is the worst, they said the peak would be at 72 hrs. She had x-rays yesterday, and what a difference in the before and after, she wanted copies but they can't do that so I took pics of the screen. The xrays are the only pics she will let me pot, and I understand that. Have a look a

t the front teeth, that is where you really see the difference. Now, the real challenge of keeping her from losing too much weight while her mouth is elasticized shut for 4 weeks. Kind of freak us both out when the give you the scissors in a sterile package to carry around with you in case of and emergency to open her mouth (ie:

choking) Here's the pics.

This is the before:

Here is the after:

She is much cuter in person!

Today is the day!

Today, we are on our way to Halifax for Sarah's jaw surgery. Sarah and I are both very nervous. She will be elasticized shut for four weeks. That is four weeks of liquid diet. I bought a juicer last night, so hopefully between the blender and juicer I can keep her from fading away. I wish it was me not her!