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Thank you so much for your support ladies! It means so much to me. Well, this is my second surgery of the summer, both about 10 years in the making. Long story short: I was born with a cleft lip**, and was attacked by a dog the day before my 11th birthday.
As a result, I have scars on my face, and have had many visits with dentists to adjust teeth. This summer, I got a bone graft and had the last part of my cleft closed (a small hole between my gums and nose). The surgery tomorrow is to do one of the final scar revisions. I have been waiting 10 years to get to this point, and I am so excited that everything is finally getting done.
** My cleft was small compared to many I have heard about. A cleft is basically a split that leaves you with no lip, gums, bone, or teeth in the area of the split. Sometimes, it goes as far as to cleft the pallet (roof of your mouth) Mine was just lip, tooth and gum. Clefts appear suprisingly often, about 1 in 100 births.
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