Yesterday (January 9, 2007) Ben got braces. He was actually looking forward to it and excited to jump out of bed that morning. He chose (it's hard to tell in the photo) blue and orange bands - alternating every other tooth. Today he is sore and not enjoying it quite so much. He couldn't play his trombone in band today at all, and he is having to put very small pieces of food into his mouth for each bite. We are assured the soreness will lessen very soon, and that he will be able to eat pretty normally pretty quickly.
Motrin is helping, and the end result should be well worth it.
(the title of this post is a memory from my year as an AFS exchange student in Yugoslavia. I had photos of friends with me - remember, this was nearly 30 years ago {not that I am really all that old} who had braces. Some of the kids in my class at the local Macedonian High School had never seen nor heard of braces, and wondered if American teens were so bizarre as to wear jewelry on their teeth!)
No comments:
Post a Comment