RECONSTRUCTION

HERE'S THE STORY
Today I have quite an important message to get through. Something is happening tomorrow, something which is going to change me and the blog for a while. Tomorrow morning, I will have an operation that I have been waiting for for more than 8 years; a jaw adjusting surgery. Let me just quickly state so that there won't be any confusion: this is not a cosmetic surgery. When I was 12, dentists started to discover that my bite was getting worse and my overbite was increasing and this was not due to the position of my teeth. After being looked at by specialists, it was made clear that my bottom jaw wasn't aligning with the top jaw creating what has become an 11mm overbite in 2010.

They couldn't operate before the jaw had finished growing (2010, tadaa!), but due to the fact that I moved to Copenhagen and I had to transfer hospital, whereafter my journals got lost and I got sent back to the original hospital, the entire process has been postponed an extra 2 years, bringing us to today. All of the above is also the reason why I got braces at 18. I am currently on my way to Esbjerg Hospital to check myself in, and tomorrow it's showtime. The surgery will last around 5 hours and after that I'll be focusing all of my forces on the healing process and easing the swellings, which is a process that takes about 6 months. For 3 weeks afterwards, I'll only be able to get nutrition through liquids (good soup recipes are welcome!), and 8 weeks with no biting or chewing. Even though I've had ages to prepare for this day, it still seems incredibly daunting.

One question I have often been asked and that has constantly swirled in my mind with the operation getting closer was, what's going to happen with the blog. It is inevitable that it'll be different for a while. And I'm not sure how long, but I hope you will have understanding and patience with this new situation. Changes always seem to have me feeling both excited and terrified at the same time.

Trust me, I will keep creating content (maybe not in the first couple of weeks, where I'll be concentrating on re-learning how to even use my mouth) and luckily I have a few posts up my sleeve, which have yet to see the light of day on the blog (and are fairly recent, so no dusty posts, promise!). One thing is for sure, in no later than 6 months from now, I'll be good as new, jumping around and biting into crispy sandwiches without mercy!

Thank you for reading this. It means the world.

LOTS OF LOVE, TAKE CARE

SARAH MIKAELA