running, not my brightest idea!

I really really didn't expect this to make my life so difficult... for goodness sakes it's just rubber bands shifting my teeth that have been there for more than half of my life... that shouldn't be painful at all, right?
False false false
Ouch!
I decided that I was focused too much on my mouth pain so to distract me from the pain I figured running would be the perfect activity. So there I am running, panting from not running mostly all summer, and about half way through my run I felt a hollowness in my stomach. Whoops forgot that I haven't been eating a whole lot due to the pain of these contraptions, so probably running with only a cup of applesauce in my system wasn't the best idea. Secondly, a little further on in my run I had the most painful feeling in my mouth. I guess a run won't take my mind off my spacers but make the pain so much more real. After running with my hands held to my jaw for several minutes I gave up and my run became a walk in the park. I really thought that running was a great idea but I was wrong.
Lesson learned: don't go running when you have mouth pain.

Also Let me just mention how long it takes me to eat!
I am a slow eater, everyone that I eat with knows this fact about me. Now that I have mouth torture devices in, my eating habits are on super slow motion speed.
All that I've eaten in 3 days is ... (& in very little portions)
-soggy cereal
-vegetable beef soup (which stained my white spacers)
-Ice cream & Hot Chocolate (gloriously no pain)
-a hostess cupcake (never again)
-a small McD's fry (took me 20 minutes)
-potato soup (this was a pretty successful meal) & grilled cheese pita (NEVER AGAIN)
-Hot chocolate (really soothes my mouth)
-a cup of applesauce
-Princess Spaghetti o's (so easy to eat, probably my 1st food option from now on)
-Ice cream
-Mozzarella sticks, Salad, bread sticks, rigatoni, fries. (all of that had to be cut into 2cm size pieces and then chewed with my front teeth- it took me so long to eat just half of everything probably like 2 hours)
-& More ice cream

I recommend spaghetti o's & soft squishy french fries.... anything else will hurt & it won't be fun no matter how much you think it will be okay.... it won't.

This better get better
p.s. I'm almost sure that I have to keep these spacers in until I get my expander on in September! Life without a satisfying meal is miserable!