A Day I Wish I Hadn't Experienced

A day that I wish I hadn’t experienced was October 28, 2005. On that day, I had to have surgery on my palate. The surgeon cut open the top of my mouth and lengthened it a half an inch which is called a z-plasty. I had the surgery because when I was younger I had a clarity problem with my speech. The first reason why I wish I didn’t have to experience October 28, 2005 is that I had to go under anesthesia. Because of this, I threw up blood a lot during my recovery. My recovery was three weeks. The second reason why I wish I didn’t have to experience October 28, 2005 is that I had to eat soft foods for six weeks. I had to give up any hard candy, pizza and anything crunchy. I didn’t like some of the foods that I had to eat because they were pureed. But I became so hungry that pureed foods were satisfying, at the time. A third reason why I wish I didn’t have to experience October 28, 2005 is that I had to miss Halloween. In our younger years, missing Halloween was not fun. It meant not dressing up and not going trick or treating for candy. Although, I already couldn’t have candy but I would have gone trick or treating if I could. So as you can see, this is a day that I wish I hadn’t experienced. However, my speech has gotten much better since then. If I had the chance to do it again I probably would, despite all of the negative events that happened, just to make my voice easier to understand!