lindseyh2

September 30, 2022

15 | 7 months post op

Been a minute since I’ve given an update! A lot has happened in life since the last time I posted. We moved to the PNW and had to do sooo much to make this happen. Had to fix up the house, fix up and sell the RV, find a place and then move all our…

May 9, 2022

14 | 6-11 weeks post op

Healing is not linear (thanks to Lindsey T. for sending me this photo during recovery, it has been my phone background to keep me thinking realistically!). I always think I can make these posts shorter when I first set out writing, but that doesn’t always work out for me. The reader’s digest version of this…

March 31, 2022

13 | 4-5 weeks post-op

In a nutshell – these last 2 weeks I have spent my time on increasing my mouth opening, enjoying my new soft chew diet 😄, working on proper swallowing and tongue placement with a orofacial myologist, getting better at speaking (starting to sound like my old self), lymphatic drainage massages from my craniofacial PT, considering…

March 12, 2022

12 | 3 weeks, ✨Progress✨ over perfection

3 week post op feels, struggles and successes

March 4, 2022

11 | 2 weeks since surgery

Today it has officially been 2 weeks since my surgery, but it feels like it has been 2 months. So much has been packed into the past 2 weeks. We drove back home late on Wednesday night and got the dogs back, so that was a nice treat to come home to (thanks to my…

February 28, 2022

10 | Checkup Appointment

Today I had my 10 day post-op appointment with Dr. Sullivan and was greeted with a cool surprise – the surgeon who invented the surgical counter clockwise rotation of the mandible was there, Dr. Johan Reyneke. Dr. Sullivan had reached out to him awhile back in his career while Dr. Reyneke was working in South…

February 26, 2022