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One of the worst things about being braced was that I was "the girl in braces" the loner....there are 51 students in my nursing class, I was the braced girl. Okay so GET THIS!!!!
I go to clinical (where we work with patients at the hospital) on my very first day sans braces, and what do I see? Is this an illusion I ask?...
A 30 year old girl who I like but don't know real well yet WITH CERAMIC BRACES!!!!!! So she looks at me, I smile and she looks mortified and goes, " OMG! Where are your barces? I told my husband the best thing about doing this is that there is this girl in my class with them too!"
When I was painfully hesitant to go ahead with braces, mostly due to a lack of self confidence and expected perceptions of others at my very professional office.... I told myself it would be okay because 2 other women (out of 700 ppl in our building) have braces.
I came to work with braces and stopped by their offices for a visit... and they both informed me they were 1 or 2 weeks away from getting them off. (this was back in May).
So now I'm one in 700 in my building with braces. Ugh!
I found out that an office assistant in the high school/vo-tech I work at had SARPE also and now has braces. I work in a building of about 200.
I teach freshmen so I will have lots of kids for advice and to laugh at me. It actually makes me more comfortable knowing they are going through it too and won't be suprised when I say my teeth hurt. A couple of my students have the same ortho.
They have dealt well with the RPE and the speech problems that came with it.
Kim
SARPE 11/23/06
Expansion over 12/18/06 8.5mm
Brace day tops 1/15/07
Brace day bottoms 3/19/07
all expansion devices removed 9/19/07
