Today I ate Ice Cream with a Spoon!

Today, after shaving my face, I discovered who my real parents must be: Rodney Bingenheimer and Jocelyn Wildenstein.

I also ate my favorite ice cream with a spoon because it had melted a bit: Julie's Moca Java.
It got all over my face and the floor but I slurped that thing down!

Yesterday and Today

Yesterday was my halfway point of wires on my mouth. Just 2 and a half more weeks and they come off! I am so excited. I worked myself to death yesterday at work and crawled out of my car to take a nap, have a 12 hour migraine/tension headache, and sleep 9 hours. I took this picture yesterday and am happy I look somewhat normal again. I just feel handicapped due to the inability to speak and my weakness.

Today I bought and bid on a bunch of Raggedy Ann stuff on ebay as inspiration for my paintings and possible tattoo!

Last night I had a dream that I was going to be in a childrens beauty pageant in drag, singing "It's Raining on Prom Night" from Grease.

Today I changed my 4 rubber bands for the first time using a little do-hickey. They need to be changed every other day because they loosen.

First day back to Los Angeles

• noticed bad air quality
• got into fight with smoothie maker at whole foods because she wouldn't give me the full protein powder serving
• client had fear for my life in her eyes when she saw how skinny I am
• my tiniest pants were baggy on me
  
• traffic was overwhelming and aggressive
• ran out of hours in the day to unpack everything
• work schedule is filling up really quick
• want to get rid of a lot of clutter in apartment and work
• Ky said I didn't snore at all and he could barely hear me breathe
• Ky said my breath is terrible, I am so embarrassed, emailed Dr. Li who said that's what happens when the stitches start dissolving
• I feel like I look monstrous and I am afraid I will never look normal. Apparently it can take many months for the swelling to go down
• "The Cookie Lady" (the lady who brings cookies etc to work) absolutely didn't recognize me and acted as if I was a total stranger
  

Highlights from my last day up North!

Here are the highlights from my last day at the Mountain View Residence Inn by Marriott.


1. Gave Sherwood a new non-wispy hair cut.
2. Aly gave my luggage the bondage treatment because I am bringing home more than I brought with me and it burst.
3. Sherwood gave me a massage.
4. Aly found that the soup fit perfectly in my workout bands box.
5. I saw Dr. Li for the last time in the next 3 weeks. I have always been in the chair when I saw him but when I stood up I saw how short he was so I crouched down to take my picture with him because I wanted to be shorter than my doctor.
(He told me how quickly my muscles disappeared,

to get me back for my comment.)
6. I found a modernist playhouse at Stanford mall.
7. Aly was sneaky amongst the mall flowers.
8. I found an adorable candy display.
9. I took a pic of Dr. Li's door display.


10. Ky told me I look like Joaquin Phoenix which I kind of agree with.

Scenes from the Movie I love

I love this movie. It is so cheap and badly acted:
"The Wonderful Land of Oz" from 1968.
Click on images to see them bigger.

Before and After: X-Rays, Fever and Nightmare and Brad Pitt

As you can see, my jaw is drastically altered creating a much larger air way down my throat which should end my sleep apnea. I am very excited about this.

Last night was a hard night because I had a fever and layed in a pile of sweat last night never really getting to sleep until about 4am I'm guessing. I had to constantly get up and pee for a long time as well. I am assuming that this was my body's way of ridding itself of the anesthesia that I had running through me as a result of the nose surgery. In my feverish state I had a nightmare:

I was in a big bed with Brad Pitt laying to my left. My neighbor who had failed sleep apnea surgery of another kind, was foot to foot with Brad and across from me, next to him was my friends 4 year old daughter. When I awoke (in the dream) my neighbor told me that I still had my sleep apnea as I snored. I was really depressed after that.

By the way, I wanted to say that I was not really put under all the way during my corrective nose surgery and I felt and heard everything. I wasn't in pain but I felt and heard the cutting of my septum. It didn't scare me because Dr. Li had gone over the surgery so many times with me, I was ready for it.

P.S. the top pic is of my mouth wired (rubberbanded) shut.

Pictures from today's nose correction surgery