buddha

I dunno if you're already taped up and not reading this till after. when I was eighteen I had to have surgury for my TMJ problem [jaw joints misalighned/ bad juju, jaw locking and clicking, lots of headaches, physical therapy.....]. THis involved breaking my top and bottom jaws [with a big saw I guess, I was knocked out.] and then pinning them back with titanium pins that re still in there, and wiring my jaws shut for six weeks. I could sort of talk through a weird sort of ventrilogy but really, writing worked better.
SO, it sucked big time. but it was a Major learning experience/adventure. People thought I was retarded immediately after, because the swelling in my face took most of the six-eight weeks to go away, and I couldn't feel anything below my eyes for the same period. In the first week, clotted blood and mucous would drip out of my nose/mouth and I would have no idea. I just remember this 1o year old kid in a comic book store staring at me like I was the walking dead.
People in grocery stores would move their children away from me.
SOme strangers were super nice and helpful, but boy this was a study in human nature.
THe operation was a super success, and I'm really lucky to be 95% pain free now, a huge improvement, even nearly 10 years after.
THe whole experience gave me a new outlook on life.

maybe you'll develope jedi powers or something.

good luck, and don't let the bastards get you down.

well i hope everything goes ok. dont die or anything, cause that would suck, a lot.