*Sigh*

Well, I've been reluctant to post more information about my medical/dental catastrophes but here we go again.....
I was released from my surgeon right before Christmas. He was very pleased with how my mouth looked and said the bone was almost completely graphed together, which is very good.
However, though I have not wanted to admit or come to terms with it, for the past couple weeks the right side of my mouth/jaw has been really hurting me. I finally broke down and went to my dentist last week and he took lots of xrays and found some puzzling things. I have perplexed my dentist yet again with my jaw. There was lots of things he wanted me to have checked more extensively by my specialist, so I am currently trying to push through an aching jaw until my specialist appointment in 2 weeks.
But today I had to go back to the dentist at around 8 am, trying to get done in an hour so that I could be at school and ready to teach by 9 am. That definitely didn't happen. It ended up being about 2 hours of terrible stuff happening to my already worn out mouth! It is honestly so frustrating for me because I feel like I've done so many things and here we go again doing more terrible things to my poor mouth/face. Ok, I'm done complaining about it.
I would like to say that I am extremely thankful for my wise doctors. I have a dentist that has seen me since I was toddling around and always tells me he tries to think about me as if I was his own daughter when making decisions about what to do with me, and I know he really means it. My surgeon also happens to be a national leader in his field but was also the most hands on and loving doctors I've ever had. He gave me a huge hug before I left the day he released me. That is not very common.
So now I am in bed, where I've been all day, taking pain killers, and waiting for the swelling and pain to go away. Hopefully it will very soon because I have lots of little school children I missed today and want to be back in action with bright and early in the morning!