Personal Narrative: My Junior Year Of High School

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The summer succeeding my junior year of high school I had my jaws wired shut for six weeks. It started in the seventh grade when an orthodontist first brought to my attention that I had an under-bite, or mandibular hyperplasia, to be technical. To correct the issue, I had to have surgery. It would be tough, it would be painful, but I would get through it and I would come out on the other side looking great. I had years to prepare myself mentally. I would be swollen for a while, but I would eat ice cream for a couple of weeks and then everything would be fine.
It was not about two months before the nearing operation that my regular orthodontist told me that my jaw was to be wired shut for over a month post-operation in order to recover fully. I was left jarred at this insight, also angry that I had not been alerted sooner. It meant six week of no talking or chewing and only consuming liquids through a straw. Again, I tried to think of the positives: the presumed pain and …show more content…
What was worse than the pain was the fact that I could not communicate with anyone about it; I was left mumbling away, my parents and nurses left guessing at what I could possibly be saying. After three weeks, the swelling went down dramatically, and with it my weight. Now that I was able to distinguish my neckline from my chin, I realized just how much my face had changed. I was rattled every time I looked in a mirror, wondering who on earth I was looking at, because it sure was not the girl I had known the past seventeen years. My facial alteration was probably the toughest part of this experience, even surpassing the constant nausea, hunger, and exhaustion. It is jolting to see your face every day and then have it suddenly change, leaving you no time to get used to it. Now that time has passed since my recovery period, I cannot even look at a picture of myself from before the surgery, again, because I no longer see

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