It’s been over a year since I posted anything on my progress after the surgical event (see other posts in this same category), and I don’t think I will resume posting on that topic. My relationship with polyarthritis has outgrown that episode – we have more and deeper things in common for this relationship to [...]
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It is eighteen months since I had my operation; I could basically rewrite what I reported six months (except maybe for the bone cracks which I do not seem to able to feel anymore); next week I am seeing my surgeon for a periodical check, and will ask him what is forecast is for me [...]
I am actually late on this post – it’s one year plus three days. As it has been clear since a few months, the healing process is still under way, but here is the mandatory mug shot: Every affected part of my face is simply but veeeeeery slowly going back to normal: I almost feel [...]
Taking advantage of my youngest daughter enjoying a break from school after Easter, I moved my working quarters to St Raphael. The weather is predictably sunny and clear, helped by a powerful blowing of the mistral. For those who don’t know it, mistral is a powerful dry northern wind. It is reputed to be a [...]
Not much of an update: slow but sure progress. Teeth are released from torpor very slowly, but the progress is there. The biggest challenge right now is the extreme sensitivity of the mouth inner serface: I think it has to do with the huge scar tissue who is now gaining back its normal sensitivity, which [...]
Did my CAT scan(s) a couple of weeks ago – won’t have the results for a few days, but there’s no hurry; surgeon sez they might call me before Christmas for the overall review, but I suspect it’s more likely to be afterwards unless there’s something they find in the scans which prompts them to [...]
This was a more difficult month than many others – not really surprising, the slowness of improvement is kind of wearing me out. In fact I found I am trying to avoid the subject altogether, brushing it off in a rather coarse way when some friend asks me about how it’s going. In a rare [...]
Progress inches along – brushing my teeth is now downright unpleasant: is this because I am getting my front section back ? I sure hope so. I dread the moment I will need to see my dentist again, the idea of someone else messing up the area is rather disturbing, so I hope I won’t [...]
So let’s see: three months have gone. Most people who get told the tale of the surgery marvel that I look so all right after only three months, but that’s because they naturally expect scars so numerous to make my face look like it’s been put together using leftover pieces from other faces. But of [...]
Am in London today – flight was unventful. The Medicine Man was right once again !
