Day 2: is anything happening?

I woke up this morning after a reasonable night's sleep but rather concerned that I wasn't experiencing the pain I'd been told to expect. Imagine - wanting to feel pain! But this pain is supposed to mean that there is some force being applied to my teeth. So what if nothing's happening? What if my teeth don't move?

An hour later, while attempting to eat my usual breakfast of uncooked jumbo rolled oats with chopped banana and prunes with skimmed milk, I am beginning to notice a pulling sensation on some of my teeth. But, thankfully, no pain.

After breakfast, a glance in the mirror - well, a good long peer, actually. Can I already see the gap behind the lower tooth widening as the two adjacent teeth move apart? Or is it just wishful thinking?

I'm taking before, during and after pictures with a digital camera. How do I manage to photograph my teeth and not my chin or up my nose when I'm holding the camera pointing towards me? Well, beyond the camera on my bathroom windowsill is a vanity mirror so that with a bit of adjustment I can see a reflection of the camera's image preview. Simples!

I'm not alone
I spent part of the morning (I'm supposed to be working) Googling 'I can't chew with ceramic braces' and it seems I'm by far from the only person with this problem. I find out that the answer seems to be soup and smoothies. Oh, and other soft foods such as fish. Just as well I like fish. And mashed potatoes. And soup.

Lunchtime
Oh dear. Salad. My normal weekday lunch consists of cold meat, sliced tomato and cucumber, some pickled baby beetroot, a few olives, lettuce and coleslaw accompanied by a couple of pieces of bread. Of these I find I can manage the cold meat (it's from packet and quite soft), the tomato, beetroot and bread.

Not wanting to miss out on all the remaining nutrition I decided to liquidise my lunch in the blender, so in it went. Switched on the machine and then realised that I'd left the lid sealer in the jug. Crash! Bang goes my lunch. And possibly my blender as it's an old model.

Banana for lunch then.