Braces imminent, and Kairos meme: comic strips

[hamsterwoman]

It just hit me the other day that O is getting his braces put on THIS WEEK. We've stocked up on apple sauce and Odwalla juices and yogurt, and will buy ice cream and chocolate pudding as needed. Any last minute suggestions/words of warning? (I never wore braces myself, because i refused, and l had Invisalign, which come off for eating and so don't

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[giallarhorn]

I think it does definitely vary from person to person in how sore/sensitive you are, but I was pretty much back to normal after the first day? One of my labmates just got braces as well, and she seems to feel fine now.

Diet wise, they'll give you a list but you can more or less figure out what isn't worth the effort to eat- sticky or hard food is on there a lot, but it also depends on what's likely to get stuck. Chips are more trouble than they're worth, as is candy and stuff with lots of bones in it. Raw veggies should be fine, but you have to approach it with braces in mind? Like consider an carrot- I wouldn't recommend eating a carrot straight with braces, but cutting it up makes it fair game.

tl;dr- you can mostly eat the same things if O isn't too sore, but that shouldn't last long. Other than that, it's about how you approach the food/portion it.

Yeah, Foxtrot still has a lot of the same Jason humor for me that I had as a kid as well, and still gets very similar reactions if I reread it. C&H I thought was weird and sometimes funny as a kid, but reading all of C&H now left me with a very different impression (and also feeling sorry for his parents).

[hamsterwoman]

As of day 3 of braces, O seems generally OK, but can't eat anything more solid than well-boiled vegetables. Hopefully he's going feel up to more soon, because it's hard keeping a teenage boy fed on soups and porridges!

Thank you for all the advice!

(and also feeling sorry for his parents).

Haha, same! Also his teachers and the babysitter. :P