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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…
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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…
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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…
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12 | 3 weeks, ✨Progress✨ over perfection
3 week post op feels, struggles and successes
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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…
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3 | Surgery Tomorrow
Feelings towards my surgery tomorrow
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To patients considering a TJR
Second opinions, advocating for yourself and becoming the expert you need.
Lindsey's jaw journey 