Yippee! I can talk again. The wires were cut today. There is still one little wire around my lower front two teeth. I’ll still need to be on a very soft diet for the next two weeks. My first meal was cream of wheat. Very yummy, I’ve been craving it for a week. Looking forward to some real food for dinner, maybe a little hamburger, rice and peas. I still can’t open my jaw all the way, but the doctor says not to force it and it will relax in time. I go back for another follow up in about three weeks.

I saw a couple of other people in the doctor’s office that I met in our class. They had surgery the day after me. They all looked great. I had lost the most amount of weight. Because of the gall bladder scare last month, I stayed away from fatty things and most dairy. The others were able to add ice cream to their shakes. I can start increasing physical activity now, just nothing too strenuous as to cause clenching my jaw. Hopefully with a little exercise, I can keep this weight off.