Big Becky (Surgery)

So everyone wants to see my BEAUTIFUL after surgery pictures so I am being brave and putting them up. Why would you do this you ask? Everyone needs a good laugh once in awhile!! So here you go here's a laugh at my expense. Hope you enjoy. This is just after surgery trying to wake up and wondering what the heck has just happened.As you can tell there was a lot of swelling so this is me with my ice packs on my face. I had a mandibular advancement. In essence they broke my jaw bone and moved my bottom jaw forward and put it back in place with the newest titanium screws on the market. No, I won't set off airport alarms with my new face!

At home. I only had to stay one night in the hospital and I opted out the second night. I wanted to see the kids and Armes needed me home because he was in the middle of his final exams. Thanks to all my friends for bringing food (although I couldn't eat it but thanks for tempting me-jokes) and all the babysitting of the kids. It was a tough time for us and we needed you guys so thank you so much.

This was taken to show the bruising that went down all the way to my chest. It was a little sore and when I went out in public (which was rare at this point) everyone stared at my beauty.

These are my instruments for eating. My mouth was shut with elastics so I wasn't allowed to eat real food. Everything I ate had to go through this tube and I just had to try to shove it to the back of my mouth where there was a little room for the food to squish by my teeth. Needless to say there were moments of extreme hunger followed by extreme excitement over the weight loss I encountered. So this was surgery for me and I'm mostly all healed up now and after 3.5 years of wearing braces they will be off in the next couple of months and I couldn't be more excited.