A list of things which are hard or impossible to do when your jaw is wired shut

Chew

Eat solid foods

Eat with any utensil (other than drinking from a cup)

Enunciate clearly

Yawn

Cough

Brush your teeth properly

Floss

Raise your voice

Sing

Whistle

Lick your lips, lick a stamp, lick a spoon, lick anything

Access your tongue (do you ever wet a finger on your tongue to turn a page or pick a nit off your clothes? Not happening)

Bite your fingernails

Press your lips together, as when blotting lipstick

Dissolve homeopathic remedies under your tongue — even these tiny pellets are too large to fit through the narrow opening between my upper and lower jaw. Similarly, no gum, mints, chewable vitamins or antacids, etc., etc.

 

 

 

 

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