MN Little Italy 12

[SunflowerNeedsSunshine]

Ciao, hello, welcome!

Just beautiful, Sunflower! I bet you and DD look lovely in it!

oh, franca, I had that thing that had s.thing that had this two prongs that would insert in metal bits in my apparecchio fisso, with a strap on my forehead and mento and big elastic band from cheek to cheek round the back of my head, luckily only for few monhts and for night and home only! and started wearing it at the same time as my glasses for miopia too, they were big middle age golden frames . I was in terza media. did I mentio I was a bit of a dpressed teenager having been a happy child?

that's it, it's the baffo!
Sunflower, I have a picture of me, at around 12, lying down with glasses and the busto (quello alto, high up to the chin) reading "Il secondo tragico Fantozzi". That sums it up very well (actually at that stage I was still quite self confident, it went downhill when I was around 14)

What were these instruments of torture which you poor things had to wear?

Do you have lovely straight teeth now, though?

My teeth have always basically been fine: crowded, but not bad enough to do anything about (braces too expensive, etc.). But they are a little skew-iff, and I sometimes think if I had a few thousand £££ to waste, I would get Invisalign braces...

DH rips the piss out of me for my teenage photos: I was forced to wear the biggest glasses ever. I looked like this. My whole face would vanish behind the giant lenses!

Unsurprisingly, I wear contact lenses now...

I like the wrap too

No, actually Penthe my teeth don't look much. Nor is my back totally straight (though much better, scoliosis can be very dangerous).
And I've been wearing glasses since I was 1 yr old . I often dream of having laser surgery (as I cannot stand the lenses)

Oh, franca - meant to say I'm v glad the magazines arrived ok. Do you want to be kept up to date with Waitrose magazines and recipes, etc? There's a new spring recipes booklet out, and it's nearly April... And, panic over, the cards have been replaced by a little pamphlety thing: want it?

I like the idea that there is a small corner of Milan that is forever Waitrose...

Sorry - I missed the bit where you said you had scoliosis! Gosh! My little cousin (well, she's 17 now, but little to me! ) had a major operation last year to correct her scoliosis - she has a huge scar all along her spine now, which she delights in showing people. She was incredibly brave, and made a really fast recovery. And the doctors did an amazing job.

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Oh Penthe, you are uber lovely. If you keep them, that'd be lovely, but don't worry about having to do it, iyswim. You have already enough on your plate

Oh gosh. The operation is what we were aiming to avoid. I suppose techniques have improved so much since I was a teenager. Wow, your little cousin (17, she is little of course ) has been a very brave woman. Ahhhh bless her

had scoliosis too, nearly had the busto, but years of swimming helped. and luckily have no pics of il baffo (wow, never called it that! I think we called it apparecchio esterno). I saw a documentary about that operation Penthe, amazing what they can do nowadays!

and planning laser surgery as soon as I can put some money aside... 2 friends have done it (one 12 years ago) and said it's the best thing they've ever done.. ah, waking up in the morning without having to feel for your glasses on the comodino, having a shower and see the bottles, going to the beach... a new world...

yes, the wrap is lovely, so lovely and soft as soon as it came out of it's little cloth envelope....

talking of waitrose... just got my shopping delivered and guess what dopey pippi did...doubled up the order with previous week. so I've got literally 6 packs of digestive, 12 packs of penne and spaghetti 4 mega toilet roll pack etc. I want to die!!

re weaning thread - was bored with dd2 on me all day - don't know why I posted as I don;t care much about the weaning process myself. boh.

re dentist - very posh private italian one never even attempted to look at dd while new one here told me to bring her and app they see them from when they have their teeth like you said sunflower. why the difference? surely is good to see them. my friend's dc are less then 5 and plagued by cavities already.

sunflower I wish I had a wrap today with dd2 ever so clingy. your's beautiful. btw can you tell from my dumb questions that the dc not often ill?

I'm so fed up with wearing glasses. Should consider it really. I wonder how much it is. My "ortottista" (because of course I was also born with strabismo) said I could also correct the strabismo with the laser.

Off to bed now ragazze. Goodnight!

Aahhh, yes, laser surgery too. My eyes, despite the massive owl-glasses of the 80s and 90s , are not that bad -1.75 and -2.75: they actually improved with age, which is weird. I was more myopic when I was 7 (when I first started wearing glasses). But it would be nice not to have to bother with lenses or glasses again.

It's no trouble at all - I'll pick them up, and send when the April mag comes out.

sorry pippi, but lol at all that toilet roll

You might have a weird dentist. As I said mine in Milan advice to start checking teeth after 3, and they have a special room for the children.

Notte, franca.

LOL Pippi - online grocery shopping carries an element of risk! My friend recently got a tub of Haagen Dazs ice-cream instead of frozen peas. Sounds like a good trade to me! I feel sorry for the poor sod who got the veg. They must've been !

penthe

I share your angst re glasses. I had them from prima media. a part of me wants to have the op (for all the reasons sunflower mentioned) but I'm very fond of the way I look with glasses. I prefer myself with than without. it's a bit scary been so blind, isn't it?

and re apparechhio, I'm sure dh had il baffo, so many time he described it to me . I only had the mobile one with the pink palate that made you speak like a deficiente and spit everywhere. I lost one when wrapping it up and living it at a rest or something and then purposefully lost a second one. now I wish I had an unthrowable fisso so that my teeth would be straight.
dd is ruining her mouth by sucking her thumb...

franca, my friend's mum had veeeeeeeeeeeery thick lenses, and had laser on one eye 2 years ago to correct strabismo/cataratta and miopia all in one go

ok last post I promise:

I must have been a weird kid as I was a bit envious of my friends with the apparecchio mobile that made them speak in a funny way. I found the way they spoke very refined !

That weaning thead is mental, though.

I mean, I care about weaning insofar as I'm going through it with DD now, and, well, there it is. But who cares THAT MUCH???? They started going hammer and tongs by the end.

I just want to post: "Why not?" And leave it at that... But I know, the minute you get sucked in... It's all over...

pippi, the wraps are wonderful for those days!!

yes he must be weird. I wonder why though as he's super nice in any other way.

viggoooooooooo come back!!!!

franca, that is hilarious!

my teeth are quite straight, but they are big, that was the problem, the dentist said apparecchio fisso o take 4 teeth out... all ruined because I sucked my thumb til I had to wear that oink palate...