Triumph...and fails

I'm way overdue for an update. Tuesday last week was my first visit to the ortho since surgery. It was kinda exciting because everyone there congratulated me on a successful surgery and said that it looked good. Dr. O said maybe 6 more months of braces, so latest would be February 2017. That would be appropriate considering I had them put on February 2014 near valentine's day. It would be a great triple decade birthday gift to myself to have them off!!!
Anyways, I had a continuous wire across my top teeth put on (in place of the sectional ones I had before). No tpa arch at the roof of my mouth. Another praise!
I do have to wear a rubber band on the left side across 3 top and 3 bottom teeth. This is to pull them together so they meet. I'm finally in the winding down stages.
I'm allowed to bite in front...yay. except I still physically cant. I try and my teeth don't bite. I end up pulling on the food.
I've tried eating crackers, bread, and pizza. I haven't been too successful on that. I can only fit a finger all the way through when I open my jaw. Trying to get two in.
I was really frustrated this week because the radiology department sent me what I thought was x rays of my jaw. They sent like 5 cds. Turns out all of them are cat scans of my head looking top down. The is completely useless to me. Now I have to call them again and have it resent. My friend B works at kaiser in the next department. She said she could get them for me. That'd be awesome, but she has a lot on her plate so we will see.
So, progress is being made. Steven foes back to work tomorrow so I'm on my own with Abby. It should be fine I think...