1) I talk. A lot.
2) I love to eat food.
3) Doing these first two things on my list is going to be harder than I thought.
4) Choose the people around you wisely.
5) …and I have chosen them wisely. Well, one I chose. The other showed up some years later. Both are awesome.
Thanks to my hubby and Claire for SO much support as I try to make this work.
Here it is: The Daytime Appliance. See the clear plastic device over my bottom teeth? This is as far as I can close my jaw. Fun times ahead!
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JoAnn–That looks a lot like an appliance I had to wear virtually all the time from age 9-ish to 11-ish. My jaw was recessed, and the orthodontist needed it to pull the lower jaw forward so bone would fill in behind during my growth spurts, thus avoiding surgery. I at least was able to take it out when I ate, but I cannot tell you how many times it had to be dug out of the garbage can at school when I dumped my tray. I hadn’t used my lips or tongue much to talk before that, so it was quite an education for me to be understood without a pronounced lisp. (“Lisp” is such a cruel word for someone who has one.
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Oh, Michelle, I can feel for you! Also? I feel the same way about the word “stutter.” What a cruel, cruel joke.
That looks tricky to say the least. By the way I love your banner. So cool.
Thanks, Kari!!