Dorothy has added another in-school class today - Hospitality, which is a cooking and catering class. So now she's in class five days a week - very part time, of course, but at least she's there! Luckily, Hospitality is right before lunch, so she'll get to spend social time with her friends everyday.
This coming Thursday, Dorothy will go in to the oral surgeon to have the arch bars removed - these were the bars that looked like braces at first glance, but in fact are installed with wires that run through her gums, as I understand it. The first few days after the wires that attached top to bottom came out, her jaws were so sore from not moving for 6 weeks that we still had to grind her food up - not pureed anymore, but ground up. She's now moved to chewing soft foods, and she feels like she can open her jaws almost all the way - which, I believe, is the main criteria for getting the arch bars removed. She'll be unconscious for the procedure, which I'm sure will be uncomfortable. She's not looking forward to getting the IV, although she's handling it really well, I think.
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