I’m Alive!

Hi Friends! My surgery went well! As I was waking up from anesthesia, I overheard them saying I would’ve no longer been a candidate for dentures due to me having no ridge or much bone left up top so I’m glad I went ahead with surgery instead of waiting, trying the dentures route only to be told that wouldn’t work anymore. My motto has always been “expect the worst - hope for the best” and I must say, this surgery was WAY off of the chart for the “worst” I was expecting! Wow! I should’ve known with what they were having to do but I guess I learned the hard way. I have an incision along my gums from one end of my gums to the other. Inside my mouth is lots of bruising and stitches and my face looks like someone majorly beat me up…black eyes and all! The pain is tolerable with the help of IV Tylenol (the IV version works as good as a narcotic without the yucky side effects). It ramps up pretty bad when it comes time for the next dose…or if I laugh too hard which I ended up doing yesterday! 🙄 Yesterday was rough with my whole body being achy and weak and feeling as though I would pass out with the slightest exertion. Today, however, has been good from that aspect of things…but nothing from my neck up is happy with me or my surgeon right now. Still have my eyes on the prize to motivate me to keep going! 🙂 I greatly appreciate your prayers as I heal!! We have a new member of our family… Charlie James! 💙 He is an almost 9 week old black poodle puppy who is now in training to be my next service dog when I eventually lose my precious Ezra. And just to clarify…my RooBug will still be with me to the end but I’m hoping Charlie will pick up how to alert from exposure to Ezra working. Ezra will never be retired. If the need arises, I will just stay home with him. I tried to retire him and leave him home when he became diabetic but he literally worried himself sick about me and did NOT tolerate that well. So for his sake he is retired from all of his physically straining jobs and just comes along and alerts when needed. Well, I’m off to find some more distractions! LOL Taking Life One Black Eye at a Time… Allison

Change :)

Hi Friends! There are a couple things that are changing… I’m scheduled for the first phase of oral surgery on Monday at 12:00 (arrive at 10). So, while not visible, my mouth will be changing! I am getting glasses. I went to the oral surgeon for a consult on the 5th. He gave me all of the details going into this. The first surgery will be to remove the canine teeth that are impacted in my palate and place bone graft. It will then be at least 4 months to let the bone grow and, once I have grown enough bone, I will go back into surgery to have implant posts placed. They are hoping my bone will grow large enough and strong enough to place 2 regular implant posts in the front and 2 posts that anchor in my cheekbone in the back. However, if the bone doesn’t grow enough, he will place all 4 implants that anchor in the cheekbone. I am SO excited for the end result! Keeping my eyes on the prize so as not to think too much on the in between! LOL! I have everything prepared and I’m gung-ho ready to go! :) Prayer requests for this surgery… *Surgery to go smoothly. *No reaction/rejection to the bone graft. *Successful bone growth. On the 6th, I finally went to the optometrist to get my eyes checked. Around 6 months ago, I noticed I wasn’t able to see or read things afar off anymore. I kept putting off getting my eyes checked (that’s worse than the dentist in my book!) but finally made an appointment. Sure enough, I need glasses. So I will soon be joining the geek squad (no offense to all the people out there requiring eyewear)…my glasses should be in shortly after my oral surgery. I greatly appreciate all of your prayers! Allison