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Today I got my rubberbands removed from my mouth. Now, the rubberbands are super tight so they made it so I could not use a normal spoon and could only barely fit in a fork in my mouth. So to make things easier I've just been telling people that my mouth has been wired shut. Because ultimately, I couldn't eat anything that wasn't half liquid. Or really really really tiny.

Last appointment witht he doctor, he said he was removing the bands, then the archbars. So I took this the right way and assumed he was only removing my rubberbands. Which is good, 'cause then I can open my mouth wide enough for.. food. lol.

But somewhere down the line my mom got confused and managed to convince me that EVERYTHING was being taken out today, archbars (huge metal braces) and rubberbands, and all.
So she got my hopes up, then we went to the doc and only my rubberbands got taken out, and my hopes were crushed.

REGARDLESS, I can chew now, so the first thing I did after the appointment was go out and buy food!
I bought an arby's beef & cheddar. Then went to taco bell and bought a bean burrito and an enchirito (my two favorite things).

I then go home and start trying to eat it.
What other can I say then...
FAIL
FAIL FAIL FAIL
WITH SOME MORE FAIL

Apparently Q has jumped the gun, guys. Get out your rulers and measure 10mm.
Now measure a sandwich.
I can only open my mouth a whopping 10mm wide. I had to eat my danwich and the beef burrito with a fork. gonk

But there is an upside to this!
One is, I CAN EAT NORMAL FOOD (kind of).
Two is I CAN USE A STRAW OH MY ******** GOD WIN
Previously, I drank everything with syringes because I didn't have suction and couldn't close my mouth all the way. I still have trouble closing my mouth all the way but I can kinda bite the straw and suck hard enough... It's difficult but still 10000x less time consuming and demoralizing than a syringe so HOORAY

Three is, I CAN FIT A NORMAL SPOON IN MY MOUTH!
FINALLY!
No more baby spoons for Q, I HAVE GRADUATED xd

My mouth is still half numb so chewing is... uh. Interesting. I don't really know what I'm doing, and I can't tell if my chewing is actually doing anything. But I know it is, since I haven't choked yet. xd


My swelling has gone down a lot so I can kind of see how my new chinline looks. It's better than it used to be but it's nowhere near what I hoped it to be. Oh well. It is more defined, which is what I asked for. Bleh.

My parents say that since my rubberbands have come out, I am much easier to understand (speech-wise)!
Talking has become less painful to do over the months, and although it still takes way more effort to talk than it should, I do feel like it's just a TINY bit easier to talk without the rubberbands in. MORE SKYPING FOR ME NOW LOL?

The doc says next week I will take out the archbars, which I can't wait for. They are the things that keep my lips out and pinch my cheeks and tear up the insides of my mouth. My lips constantly are peeling horribly because they're so dry (But I can't feel it lol, so I constantly am picking at them xD) so the archbars getting otu should fix this, make it not painful or ridiculously hard to talk, and generally make everything better with my life.
NEXT MONDAY~

He also said that over time I should be able to open my mouth wider and wider and if I can't he'll have to give me mouth opening exercises or something lol. Wow, physical therapy for your mouth, who would've thought? xd

I fractured my elbow once and had to go through tons of physical therapy for that because it was my ******** elbow, so at least I know how joints heal and what it's supposed to feel like. Hopefully I won't have to go through physical therapy again... I know with my elbow my physical therapist was all awed by how much pain I could take... But that was because I was so frustrated I'd lift weights and stuff at home to make it heal faster (Over exert myself? PAH LEEZE)

Hopefully it'll be the same way for my mouth, especially given my love for eating huge amounts of food xd xd