Hi sarah, never mond about the ops. at least they'll be over with one day! weeks been okay. I find out if i'm a full prefect 2morow. I mght be gong on a uni...
hi Amy, yeah it's true one day they will come to an end. The trip sounds like fun. Hope you get to go! what have you got planned for teh summer? Love sarah ...
Hi sarah, I am going to the university thing, yay! Nothing much planned. I'm going to the clapa camp, and the brownie camp, i have to go because it is part of...
Hi Amy, Sounds thta you've got an eventful summer in front of you. I fly out to spain on MONDAY YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS. My lip is looking great now, at...
Hey - just to say that the osteotomy is over and everything went according to plan. Very bruised but learning to eat all over again! Hope ure all ok. Happy...
Hi Kate, glad your op went well! and that your having a good recovery. Love sarah kpinkbadger01 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Hey - just to say that the...
Hi, everyone! I've just joined the Left Clip website thing. I was born with a cleft lip and palate and have had 12 ops so far. I'm 15, and would like someone...
Hi Emma, My name is Sarah I am 18 and I was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. I have had amny surgeries and still have a few more to go! are you done...
Hi Emma - my name's Kate and i'm 17. I was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate and finished all my surgeries (hopefully) 2 weeks ago with an osteotomy...
HI Kate, was the osteotomy really painful ( a stupid question I know), would you say tha tit was the most painful operation that you've had? The reason i'm...
... i never really concidered it to be one, like usually when i think about a disability i think about it making you not able to do somthing. i mean maybe it...
Hi my name is Autumn. well lets see i was born w/ a cleft lip and palate and i've had all the surgeries that i want to have, mostly becuase i know that there ...
Hi Autumn, My name is Sarah I am 18 years old and I live in Wales. I was born with a bilateral cleft lip and palate. I have had many surgeries adn still have...
hi welcome I am 19 years old, i have a soft cleft of the palate and also a hearing loss my name is lorraine and i am from scotland, i hope you meet and enjoy...
Hi Sarah, yes the osteotomy was painful but it was not terrible - there were better and worse times but things start to look up much more quickly as soon as...
Hi, Autumn. No I don't really consider having a cleft as being a disability, because I think of a disability as being someone being able to park in a disabled...
hey yeah i think i'm done w/ all mine, my dad asked me if i wanted to have anymore and i told him i didnt cuz it's not a big deal to me anymore half the time i...
Hey, I just want to say i love your whole attitude of how you feel about your cleft. I don't remember any of my surgeries, Its not been a part of my life, all...
Hi, Sarah! I was born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate, but as a consequence also had two perforated eardrums. My right one was fixed in April 2002, but...
Hi, Kate I was also born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate, but unfortunately still have a couple of operations to go through. What is an osteotomy? Is it...
HI Emma, iv'e had around 20 operations I think and got a few more to go! I used to have a perforated ear drum (right ear) but November 2002 I had it repaired...
Hi Kate, glad to hear that your on your way to recovery! How long weren't you allowed to eat for after the op? How long were you in theatre? Thank you for...
Hi Sarah, I had the same operation in April 2002 on my right ear, and pretty soon I'm having the same on my left ear. In some ways, having an operation is cool...
Hi Emma - an osteotomy is when they move your top jaw forwards and bottom jaw back - some people do have to wear a halo but i was lucky and didn't - they...
Hiya Sarah - after the op i was only allowed liquids for a week (i ate a lot of melted ice cream and stuff!!) and then i went onto soft foods (anything that...
HI Kate, I would love to see your before and after photos. Thank you for sharing that info with me. I have a small mouth too which makes life difficult for my...
Hi Emma, Yeah I used to like missing school because of operations it meant I didn't have to go school and I was spoilt rotten! I hate those gloves too, and as...
Hi, Kate Did you stay in hospital for long after your operation? Just out of interest, have you ever had any operations in the Queen Victoria Hospital in East ...