I'm free!!

It took two docs and a male nurse about 1 hour to clip off all the wires, eyelets in my mouth. I know it would be almost painless elsewhere to have this procedure done, but my heart felt as if it was nearly yanked out of my mouth.. many a times. The doc asked whether I wanted an LA, local anaesthetic but I opted for the spray only.

The occlusion isn't satisfactory said my OS after the two young docs finished what they were assigned to do. I think so too. The premolar and the last molar of my upper right seem to not mesh well with the bottom teeth. Those are some of the things my ortho doc will have to figure out how to fix.

And yes... had steamed fish and some braised tofu for lunch. It didn't matter I could only open about a finger's breadth of my mouth. I mashed the tofu and fish with the back of the spoon and gingerly pushed it between my teeth. Oih... delish...

And just now I could drink in gulps (not sips) the plain water I had poured into the tupperware tumbler.

Counting...

Had another review with the OS just now. She poked here and there asking me if I could feel the pokes or not. As usual, a horde of other docs wearing masks were right there witnessing ( i didn't use the word learning..since none of them were holding any notebooks or pens.. just looked slightly interested) the poking. Oh well..

She pronounced that I will be de-wired on the 5th. That's... 9 more days. Sigh...
She also mentioned that the one of the plates on my left will be removed. ooer.. can't say i'm looking forward to that ordeal. That means my gums will be sliced open again.

Day 11 post-wired

I would really use a full body massage now. But the thought of having to lie facedown for an hour or so isn't very appealing. I wonder if there's a back massage with you sitting down?
My chin tingles so much it almost drives me nuts.
I'm still worried about this left eye not being able close properly.

Yesterday I made some simple fish soup. Blendered the isi ikan and diluted them with the soup stock. Looked like some mashed up gray-colored paper. I thought the soup would go in and out easily through the syringe and into my tightly wedged teeth... Not really.
had to make some sucking motion to clear the debris of the fish sediments before I could down the soup. Nasib the soup was sedap... made the effort through 3 small bowls of soup. I was reminded that the soup looked like the laksa soup except that it wasn't spicy.

Finally had a cup of Red-Guara Coffee after almost two weeks going without coffee... what a difference from a morning of Ensure Choc flavor..

Last night I went out and bought some pudding from Yoyo. haha... managed to order without having too much difficulty. It was good that they had the order form to complete. Just tick what you would have. The idiot in the counter still asked something like if I wanted to drink in or take away.. D-uh? I mumbled/garbled/ lisped/goobled 'taaaapaaauu'... and sounded like a monster roaring for the villagers to run away. He coudn't understand. So, I wrote 'tapau' on the form. The girl on the cash register registered the info. Sigh..

My syringe, the mango pudding from Yoyo
sluurrrpp...