Well, here it is. This is me. This is me post 2 major jaw surgeries, 3 times in braces and a year in a mago. This is the final product of many years spent in pain while trying to fix my jaw. I took 10 pictures of myself trying to find one that I thought resembled what I think I look like. It is the strangest thing to see yourself in the mirror everyday and think you have a pretty good grasp on what you look like and then see yourself in a picture and wonder who the heck is staring back at you. Am I the only crazy person that feels that way? I know I am being narcassistic, but I can't seem to help myself. What are the changes, you ask? Well, when I smile now, all you see is teeth. No gum line. My upper lip is different now because my stiches ran all along the gum line leaving it pretty tight. I don't know how to describe what I see other than to say it is person that I am not used to looking at.
The 2 pictures below were taken right after surgery number 1 when my lower jaw was lengthened. The second picture clearly shows the gumline, however, the 1st picture more accuratly captures what I thought I looked like. So, there you have it. I was going to include a picture of me before I ever even had surgery, but I couldn't find one where I wasn't either pregnant or post baby. My other discovery in trying to find a photo of myself is that there are only a handful of pictures that I am in going back as far as 1997. Truth be told- I have never liked what I look like in pictures. Factor in that with the fact that I am usually the one taking all the pictures and you get......me in no pictures.
1 comment:
I totally get how it is to see a picture of myself and wonder what the heck I've been looking at in the mirror for so long. That said, I think you look fabulous in all three pictures. You always have to me, though...so I guess you won't get a very discerning opinion on the differences from me. Do you feel better?
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