One in a Million

GUYS.

Last time we saw each other (not including my lame Year in Review) I was still daydreaming about the day when I could eat pretzels again without being scared of disturbing the holes in my gums. Fortunately after just a few weeks I found myself eating whatever I wanted again, and it was glorious.

I actually remember the first time I felt normal, as I ate Rosemary & Olive Oil chips on my lunch break (which btw, you gotta try those they are AMAZING). As I crunched away in the otherwise silent office, I thought to myself about how I had finally arrived - as in I am now living a life that will (most likely) never require a tooth removal again! I am truly living the dream.

So it had probably been 10-12 days since I had gotten my teeth pulled when I was supposed to start wearing the trays again. I showed up and they once again started gluing various bits of plastic to my bottom teeth. And again they used some foul tasting glue substance which I definitely ate by accident. Then finally they snapped my new bottom trays on!

I worried that I would have to get used to it all over again, but it actually felt pretty normal which I saw as a good sign. So far, so good! Like, here I am, finally on my way to that perfect smile!

Then just for fun, or something, they decided to try on the top trays before even attaching the plastic things to those teeth. I couldn't see what was happening, but I had a pretty good indication that it was not going well, seeing as she was trying to shove the plastic aligner down on my teeth as hard as she could without any success.

They called the orthodontist over and he tried too, which was unfortunate; it does NOT feel good to have someone try to force one of these things on your teeth. When he finally stopped he just looked down at me and said,

"This has literally never happened before. This is like one in a million."

Oh. Cool. I feel so lucky.

In all honesty I don't really know what happened; the scan could've been weird, or the manufacturer might've had an error on their end - or some freak with the same name as me and only slightly different teeth got their trays sent to me by mistake!

Unfortunately, this meant they had to scan my teeth yet again and send them off to get new trays that would actually fit. I then had to wait...for like a month and a half. UGH.

My next appointment kept getting pushed since the shipment took ages to arrive, and finally mid December I went in to start Invisalign yet again! I took home trays 1-10 of 50, and time has actually been flying by!

I am on tray 9 as I write this, and next week I have another appointment to make sure this is working like it's supposed to (and to pick up more trays). It actually felt silly saying I'd see them in February as I walked out before Christmas, but we're already almost there!

I figure I still look pretty much the same, though my bottom teeth are nearly perfect now. Looking at my photo from the day I first started in 2016 is crazy to me! I can't believe they ever looked that bad!

I'm not sure when I will start feeling like I'm almost done; it's hard to pick out a day when I won't feel embarrassed about smiling in photos. I don't necessarily think it will take until the very end of this whole process, but I do still have a ways to go.

Outside of my teeth life has been pretty decent. As of today I started exercising again, though I technically canceled my workout by immediately ordering a pizza and eating 3 slices. I still really want abs. Or to be able to do more than 3 push ups. Or both.

If I could get back into blogging more regularly that would be good too. I'm still feeling a little rusty as I write this out. My phone is filled with notes of things I need to write about, and honestly I'm actually excited about some of my upcoming ideas~

To wrap up I'll say this - thanks for reading, and thanks for bearing with me through my more nonsense-y posts. Someday soon this will become less of a confusing mess and more of what it was meant to be...even if that is yet to be determined.

GOODBYEEE.


Recommended Listening: Staring Contest - Mates of State

PS If you haven't already please watch The Room. Half the gifs in this are from that movie and if you haven't seen it yet you are MISSING OUT.