Last night Kaedyn was crying saying that his eye hurts and it looked a bit puffy. We got him to sleep after saying we'd check it in the morning. Sure enough he woke up this morning and it was puffy. So we made a plan that we were going to just call as soon as we could this morning (I was thinking about 7:30) to try to get him in. Sure enough, I could get through at 7:30 and they were going to see him right away at 8:45 ... that way if it was nothing, DB could just run the Little's to school and everything would be good ... if it was something (like say, Pink Eye) then we could get it treated and not spread it. So he took Nathan and Kaedyn. My Mom and I took Noah to his Ortho appointment because today is the big day of getting those braces off after THREE WHOLE YEARS of having them on.
Poor Bubba...
I managed to get this picture of these two before they left. Look how much taller Kaedyn is compared to Nathan and how much bigger Bubba is. Nathan is just still so tiny, but at least he has a bit of fat on him ...
So Mom and I got Noah and off to the last "braces" appointment for him. Officially. No more braces, just lovely lovely
Thanks to Noah's anxiety ... it takes a lot of self prep to get into the chair. Dr. L was telling me how he had another patient that got braces and after she got them (she had disabilities too) she was told that if she sat in the chair again she would die. He said they had to make appointments these extreme baby steps, like, one appointment was just her coming in the lobby. The next was her standing in the back but across the room (it's an open room in the back) ... the next was her smiling. Until eventually they got her back in the chair. He said "I remember when it took Noah a half hour to get in the chair alone" and it only took him about 5 minutes today. He was really nervous it was going to hurt to get his braces off.... and it did a little, but he said it was totally worth it.
Finally in the chair. He has to be listening to stuff the whole time he's there. It helps a lot. That's Nathan's key too.
They were putting the permanent (for now) back piece in-between his top front teeth so they wouldn't re-gap.
And then they were off. Pretty cool way how they took them off.
Then it was getting the glue off his teeth from the braces and polishing them.
And there it is - first look at his un-metal smile.... his new smile!!
And then he got to torture himself so they could get all their after photos.
No more braces Noah! What are you going to do now!?!?!?! (eat Banana Taffy!)
Then we got to do the molds for his retainers .... yummy!!
So they let me take some pictures (of their computer screen) of his before and afters...
Afters.....
First pics taken with the braces, last picture taken before getting them off.....
Right before getting his braces on, and right after getting them off.
Digital model of his mouth ....
So while Dad was at the doctors with Kaedyn, he messaged me .... Pink Eye .... I said (out-loud) "Are you kidding?" and then I took Noah's glasses off for some of his photos - and saw this. Thought........ FUCK!!!!
We left the orthodontist and right away went and got Noah his Banana Taffy he'd been talking about since Christmas when he found out he was getting his braces off. He got a few other flavors, but I think we dug out every single piece of Banana Taffy there was in the bin.
DB sent me these of Nathan meditating at the doctors office. Kaedyn was trying to make him laugh.
Bipolar Washington....... Raining one second, Sunny as fuck the next.... (That's a Bubba in the window)
And then he tried to decorate the cat..... well, he kinda succeeded ....
You can just barely see the rainbow outside our bedroom window.....
We had to go back out to get Noah to the doctor for his pink eye.... and sure enough. So Mom dropped the two cases of Pink Eye and I off at Costco, DB was going to come get us after he and Cal left the college and picked up Nathan from school. He also stopped to get the prescriptions before coming to get us (cuz we were still shopping) ....
On our way home, we say not one but TWO more rainbows (it's a double rainbow)
Got home, got food put away.... went upstairs, Mellow was on tthe clothes shelf in the hallway... and Alyvia and Kinsleigh were running around everyone's feet
Around Noon, when DB went to class - after Noah and I got home with Mom, and before having to go out the second time for Noah and not having anyone home to watch Kaedyn, lol... he sent me these. The lone snow in the city... poor snowman with his immediate death looming .... he said there was also hail in downtown Bremerton.... Oye!
So all day I have had HORRIBLE issues - just getting worse - to the point where when we got home after the whole day - I couldn't even get up the stairs. I had to have DB follow me. (he enjoyed having his hands on my butt while I almost cried taking each step.)
When I was pregnant with Noah, they (the doctors at the time) suspected that I "threw out my back" somehow stepping off a curb "wrong" ... I remember being - literally - stuck on the couch fo a couple weeks. I remember it hurt to breath, it hurt so bad. Anytime I moved, I screamed.
Since then I have suffered from occasional severe pain .....
Well being so busy today, and everything else I started getting my sciatica pain. Like I said, it was hard to even go up the stairs.
All I know, is............. I HURT n
