Last night I joined the chat for the first time - the first time in any chat for this newbie. It was a wonderful experience. Though the number of people there...
Hi everybody!<br><br>This message is for all, but I especially wanted to address luxradio47 whose experiences sounded familiar. <br><br>My cleft surgery (for a...
Hi all,<br><br>I'm not sure if this will be anything but of historical value but here it goes. I had my surgeries between the years 1947 and 1965. The earliest...
Since I posted this question, I guess Im obligated to also answer it :)<br><br>I can't tell you much about my earlier surgeries, because I was kinda teeny at...
I was scared with shania having her lip closed cause i was scared she wouldnt wake up or something would go wrong. she was 4 mths when she had her lip closure...
Hunter had his lip repair at only ten weeks. I had my first and only to date panic attack, this is one the hardest things you can do is hand over your baby to...
Joe, it looks like I'm the first to answer your question. I could write forever on the this one. <br>The surgeries have been harder for me than it has for Ian....
Okay folks, by popular demand, its time for the latest QUESTION<br><br>which is...<br><br>What are your feelings on surgery? The goods, the bads, those ...
sorry everyone i wont be on at home for at least a month and i will try to keep in touch when i visit mom. I will try to get on sooner if at all possible. but...
Hi, I am 22yrs. old and I had surgey when I was 3<br>the surgey went really good.. however I have an eye that is sightly bigger than the other one. When I ware...
Hi, Kristi. If you got little teasing in childhood, you were lucky indeed because most children, clefts or no clefts, get teased. I think<br>the way we feel...
I was hardly ever teased as a kid. But I had an experience as an adult that really shook me to the core core.. Ever have another adult look you straight in the...
hi calevro !<br><br>you alerdy know who i am, i talk with you before<br><br>meny time , raviv lerner remember ?<br><br>get's enter my new web site : ...
hi! <br><br>it's me again i forgat to say my new web site<br><br>which is: www.geocities.com/raviv_us <br>you will find information about the cleft lip ...
hi !<br><br>my name is raviv lerner, i born with cleft lip &<br><br>palate, and i am 22 years old , i didn't uderstand<br><br>what is actually your problem, ...
My experiencing with teasing is that it almost never happened. Thinking back I'm not too sure why that is. Maybe girls aren't teased as much or it had ...
All depending on when Mark gets home I might be late (again) tonight.<br><br>And note that I changed the chat times. I'm cutting back to just once a week, ...
The funniest thing about most people(where I'm from anyway)when I tell someone about Hunter's lip and palate, well first they don't believe me and then they ...
I don't know, Joe, that's why I want a book so badly. Clefts have to be the most common yet most<br>poorly understood of all birth defects. I came upon a site...
My attitude to teasing has not been to fight back but get out of it as soon as possible. The fallout from that was I began to avoid certain situations where I...
Actually, I always walked away from the teasers, except for the one incident that I noted earlier. That big bully kept teasing and teasing, so I finally ...
OK, sports and fighting may be an option for some,<br>but if you are a tiny girl growing up in the 50's<br>and 60's with a speech defect, how did you cope with...
I hear your message! I followed the same path! I figured it out young! If I couldn't date the same girls as the others then I would be your equal on the sports...
Hi Shanna.<br><br>I would love to talk to you about your daughter. I have a 5 year old son that has a bi-lateral cleft lip and pallet. Any time you want to...
I grew up with twelve siblings. Man, did I ever get teased. We moved to a small town when I was eight years old. The kids in this town had little exposure to ...