She got expanders today. Expander is a nice way to say "an appliance that pries your mouth apart and makes you unable to eat good food and makes you cry at night when you should be going to sleep."
She’s not happy tonight. Part of me feels bad she has to go through this. Part of me feels glad that at least we’re not in China and I’m not binding her feet like in the book "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" I read recently. It was sooo fascinating. The mothers took their precious little girls and broke all the bones in their feet by binding them with rags and forcing them to walk with across the floor until the bones gave away and they passed out from the pain, then got them up and made them walk some more. Sometimes the girls got infections and died from this. Check out a fascinating article and gross pictures here. All for the sake of beauty. Just like braces.
Makes expanders sound not so bad, huh?
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Sick. Seriously sick. That’s supposed to be sexy? Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. Oh, and poor Shelby. That can’t be fun.
So, does she get braces on top of the expanders… or how does that work.
Braces suck, I wish I’d never had them, honestly — and I see my teeth slowly moving back to where they were.
dude
david was mad at me for like 3 days when he got his expander. and he drooled a tiny bit. alex was next to impossible to understand for the first week he had his. you’d thik with a mother with such a big mouth - my kids would have been ok. but they also go my HUGe teeth. i hope today is better for her.
poor thing.
must check out that book . . . loved memoirs of a geisha . . . and amy tan books . . . sounds similar . . .
Sounds like an interesting book, I’ll have to check it out. Getting a glimpse into other cultures fascinates me. And poor Shelby, we’ll be going through that soon enough with my nephew. He’s on track for expanders in the next few months
Loved that book and learning about the Chinese culture a bit. I can’t imagine.