I met Dr. P in his office this morning at 6:15. He refit me with the wax impression we did of my bite, and everything looked good. He then fit me once again with the face-bow, and had me once again look into the horizon. He explained that studies have shown that if a patient moves there head up and down several times, and is then asked to look into the horizon, there is only a couple degree variation, statistically a very accurate measurment. This time he had me look into my reflection so I could see my eyes, and we did it several times, and it appears that this may have been the problem, that I possibly was not holding my head completely "horizontal" when we originally did the face-bow. He has done many surgeries, and this is the first time this has happened. He was happy, however, that the error was with the face-bow, not the x-ray, because if it was with the x-ray we would have had to reschedule my surgery because they have to start over. With the face-bow, as long as they know what the true measurements are on the x-ray, they can work with it.

I mentioned to him that I had been sick but was getting over it. He said that I should see how I feel tomorrow, he wants my immune system to be at 100%, this surgery is hard enough to recover from as it is, and you don't want to add a compromised immune system into that mix. I think I'll be fine, I still have a bit of a cough and a little drainage, but it has made leaps and bounds every day.

I had a dream last night that my surgery was cancelled. Not because of the whole face-bow/x-ray issue, but other issues. I was at the hospital, and a ton of people showed up from my work to support me. Dr. P then came in and made an announcement to everyone that after further review, they could not fix my bite surgically, only orthodontically with a compromised result. Needless to say, I was crushed. Luckily, I woke up.

In other news ... it appears I won't need the genioplasty. So good news there ...

Less than 24 hours and I will be in surgery.