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I somehow seem to have gathered a lot of followers (?!) so I thought, why not trying to make my pinned post fancier
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BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE BRACES LOG
Day 4 and while life has been miserable so far, today I made some little encouraging steps: I ATE PORRIDGE AND AN OMELETTE!
never been happier about porridge.
I might stay on liquids and creamy stuff for lunch in the office over the next few days because bringing a bottle of liquid meal is much easier than bringing an omelette with me, and with the tongue sores it takes me ages right now to chew things, which is not compatible with my busy attorney fake lunch break (I usually don’t have a real lunch break and eat my sandwich while jumping into the next problem). But I’ll definitely gradually have real food in the evening when I have more time to eat and will go back to normal things at work when I can eat at a more normal pace.
well the ask by that anon WAS insensitive. i mean you see someone in pain for a procedure you don’t know the details of (and btw you said it more than once that they were not regular braces) and you go and tell the one thing that would make them feel worse - “it sounds like a shitty job made by an incompetent”? people really like an opportunity to pile shit on doctors’ work. also who are they to tell you what should and shouldn’t affect your daily life
I don’t have much to add but thank you, I was wondering if I was being overly sensitive. Maybe I was but whatever, such is life
Feeling a bit bad about my very salty answer to the last anon ask (who I assume already unfollowed my blog so will not see this post), I found the tone of the ask very insensitive but I would assume they simply did not know that I was talking about lingual braces and not regular braces, for which what I am experiencing right now would indeed be a bit too much.
So well, if it interests anyone, lingual braces (the ones I have now) look like this (under the cut in case you don’t want to see a teeth model with braces):
Are you sure you didn’t get shitty braces by an incompetent orthodontist. The competency of such people putting shit in your mouth makes a difference. When i got braces it was uncomfortable for like a week and then I just couldn’t eat hard foods , some for everyone I know, I remember the most uncomfortable part was sometimes a brace would break and I would have to get an appointment with the dentist to get it glued against because it was painful. Braces shouldn’t hurt or be so uncomfortable they affect your daily life besides eating habits and I had plenty of friends break food or not care about eating nuts or dumb shit. I even remember friends telling me my braces were probably low quality because they broke too often and I got them fixed too often. If you have money get a second opinion or somebody to look at these braces. I can’t imagine not being able to do chores because of braces, that just sounds like shit braces or something weird going on.
Wow, that’s a very encouraging ask to receive after just having undergone a procedure!
The braces I got are not regular braces. They are lingual braces which are a completely different beast than regular braces. I complain and sound like I went through unnecessary or unexpected torture but in fact, what I am experiencing is 100% what is expected during the first week of lingual braces. I got them two fucking days ago and I saw it coming, and while waiting for it to pass, I take the liberty of complaining about the discomfort on my personal blog.
Also anon, not nice to go to someone who just invested a five digit sum on an extremely specialized orthodontic treatment and is suffering because of the expected and standard process of that specific treatment, and assume that they did not do their research and went to the first idiot they found. Last thing you’d want to hear when you’re going through an adaptation and healing process is that you did something irreparable like trusting the wrong specialist. So for the record I did my research, went to different specialists, and ultimately went for the one that I considered the best. Unfortunately it does not take away the fact that lingual braces are a nasty bitch.
And, regarding your point “Braces shouldn’t hurt or be so uncomfortable they affect your daily life besides eating habits”: friend, eating is fucking part of my daily life and it affects it. Deeply. And to go back to my previous post of not underestimating how feeling unwell can affect your daily life I’d add that what would not bother you that much may be an enormous obstacle for someone else.
Anyways, I am well aware that I brought this upon myself by deciding to get braces and to get this specific kind of braces, and I shall endure until the healing process is over. Will not answer any further ask of this kind implying that I’m so stupid to go to the first incompetent guy in a lab coat without having done my job of informing myself on what I’ll be getting into.
never underestimate how even the slightest form of being unwell can impair your everyday life. i only got braces, no major disability or disease, and yet because of the discomfort it’s causing me these days,
i could not even remotely reach my billing target at work
stuff is now piling up at work because i am behind schedule and it’s terrifying for the weeks to come
i cannot eat, which makes me even weaker and sadder and further hinders my productivity
my mood is miserable and all i can think of is getting through the day
doing household chores is difficult
even selfcare is difficult
so don’t be mean to people who have some kind of impairment, whether it is a permanent or temporary disability, illness (including mental ones) or just a temporary annoyance like a new set of braces. you would have difficulties too, if you had the same
ALSO, i missed two days of tour de fleece. fuck braces
never underestimate how even the slightest form of being unwell can impair your everyday life. i only got braces, no major disability or disease, and yet because of the discomfort it’s causing me these days,
i could not even remotely reach my billing target at work
stuff is now piling up at work because i am behind schedule and it’s terrifying for the weeks to come
i cannot eat, which makes me even weaker and sadder and further hinders my productivity
my mood is miserable and all i can think of is getting through the day
doing household chores is difficult
even selfcare is difficult
so don’t be mean to people who have some kind of impairment, whether it is a permanent or temporary disability, illness (including mental ones) or just a temporary annoyance like a new set of braces. you would have difficulties too, if you had the same
For braces pain it helped me to put wax over the parts of the braces that were causing my tongue and cheek pain, to smooth them out. With wax there was pressure but no scraping/cutting.
YESSS thank you anon, I do use the wax! With lingual braces it’s not easy to apply it because it’s difficult to dry the area where I want to put it (I already have a poking wire and it’s super difficult to put the wax down there and make it stay)
But let me tell you, wax or no wax, lingual braces are a torture! I keep reading posts on Reddit of people who went through it to convince myself that it’s only part of the process (luckily, everyone says that the tongue gets used to it within a week), but damn… I am seriously wondering, did I really have to go for lingual braces over regular braces or invisalign? Hopefully it’s going to be worth it later.
Other things that are somewhat helping:
ice cream, basically all I am eating
ice cubes
salt/water rinses
I‘ll also get a gel for the sores on the tongue, as I expect they will come back from time to time every time a wire is poking
BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE BRACES LOG
Today is day 2 and I really hate my decision of getting braces
Putting them on was not that bad, perhaps just a bit uncomfortable because of having stuff in my mouth keeping it bare open and blocking the tongue, but the process itself was not painful.
Also, the teeth themselves do not really hurt - it’s somewhat difficult to chew properly because the bite does not close properly right now and they are a little sensitive, but other than that, they are not in pain
The lisp is embarrassing and I feel very self-conscious about that. It’s much worse than I expected, but then again it’s something I can live with for a while and if I explain to people why I sound like Donald Duck, they understand
The one who is bearing all the pain is my TONGUE, my god!! I have lingual braces (both top and bottom) which means that my tongue is now sharing its space with a lot of metal and wires. I’m not sure if there’s a protruding wire or if it’s just because of how the bite has shifted but the back sides and especially the right one of my tongue is literally on fire every time I swallow. And THAT’S what is making my life hell, because I simply cannot eat.
They say it doesn’t take long for the tongue to become more resistant so I’ll endure… I guess… but meanwhile I’M HUNGRY YALL
do me a favor, go out and get that crispy chicken burger and enjoy it, do it for me
getting braces tomorrow (at my age yeah) and i look at everything i eat with the melancholy of a woman watching her husband leave to find better luck in another country until he’s stable enough that she can join him with the rest of the family
yall i speak like donald duck
getting braces tomorrow (at my age yeah) and i look at everything i eat with the melancholy of a woman watching her husband leave to find better luck in another country until he’s stable enough that she can join him with the rest of the family
i don’t think there is much awareness outside the field about how fucking stressful hearings in IP are
i‘m sure that court hearings in civil matters are super stressful, too, but jeez in IP you have anywhere between 10 to 100 technical documents to read and digest, you need to know everything about the patent you‘re defending or attacking, understand its technology in detail, craft a solid story on why it should survive or die on the day of the hearing, making your way among those 10-100 documents, and with it, also all the fallback positions on file
the preparation for a hearing takes anywhere from one day to a week depending on the size and importance of the case. you have to free your desk completely for that. nothing else exists and you need to dissect that case until the last nasty sentence of that random document that could kill your entire story
on the day of the hearing, you not only have to present your case but you also need to respond to the arguments presented by your adversary. on the spot. right after they speak so you need to listen and meanwhile prepare your next pleading.
a hearing in IP can be half a day long, most of the times 7-8 hours long, and sometimes two or three consecutive days long. regardless of how long it is, you need to keep your attention span at its peak. the whole fucking time.
if you’re lucky, the client is watching you and will see that you did your best even if the decision went against you. sometimes, the client is not there and you have to explain to them why you lost and it was not because you were not skilled enough.
at the very beginning of my career i hated hearings. i found the preparation unbearable (it generally requires working until late in the evening the day before). i also did not feel like i could ever be as skilled at reacting on the spot as the partners do.
now, with some years of experience under my belt, i find them extremely stressful and physically demanding, but i like to craft the story. i still have a long way to go in learning how to spot every single weakness or having effective answers to everything that is thrown at me on the day (and how to deal with the procedural traps waiting for me to stumble) but i think i enjoy them now. somewhat.
still, my brain now is of the same consistency of scrambled eggs and i should go to sleep
i should form an early-2000s-revival pop band called
panic! at the hearing
hey spinblr, i’m trying out one of those habit tracker apps that work for groups because i’d like to organize daily lace challenges for the lace coven in the future, so i thought tour de fleece would be the best opportunity for testing: if you want to join a spinning tracker group and track your daily spinning, i made a group on habit huddle
I PASSED (eqe anon)
i'm going to go have strawberries and champagne in the sun and then sleep for 14 hours. thank you for all the nice things you said in your response!
YALL!! ANON PASSED THE FUCKING EQE!!!
i’m so happy for you! now go and enjoy the RELIEF! (and the strawberries and champagne and sun)
mutuals even if you don’t know what the EQE is (you can read about it in the previous post) come here and send your congrats to anon, they deserve a tumblr party
i had hoped that the epo would release the eqe results before the start of tour de fleece so i would be slightly less stressed, but it's looking increasingly unlikely.
OH NOO ANON you’re waiting for the EQE results 😭😩 I think there are not many worse anxiety-driven weeks than the end of June - beginning of July weeks when you wait for the results! FINGERS CROSSED!!!
For my mutuals who don’t speak patent attorney, the EQE is the European patent bar, it’s not a very well-known exam but it is considered one of the most brutal professional examinations existing! (I’ve read it somewhere I swear!)
For a start, you need to have a master’s degree in a technical field and then three years professional activity working as a patent attorney trainee, so it’s not something you sit when you’re 21 and have nothing else to do other than studying for exams. You prepare for the bar while working already in a law firm or in a company and learning the job and depending on the company’s policies, you may have to study for it exclusively on weekends or in the evening. Not easy when you have a family already!
The previous version of the exam was a brutal sitting of four papers (back in the day one after the other, later spread across two weeks to prolong the pain) and every year you could expect a lot of surprises. Most importantly they are all papers to be done under extreme time pressure. The most feared paper was D because of the extensive legal knowledge it requires and the very little time given for answering, but I’d say it contends the title of most brutal paper with paper C where you had to crack a case and write a full opposition killing a patent in six hours. My personally most hated paper was A though (drafting an application)
Not all professionals sit all four papers in one go but regardless how you do that, it’s always an extremely demanding examination (I did all four in one go and it was HELL)
Now there is a new version of this exam that the committee wanted to make “more sustainable” since it spreads the papers across the three years but if you ask me, it just adds more burden to our poor trainees (especially those who have to juggle all these papers with the national patent bars - I usually help our new trainees figure out how to organize their exams with the national bar and now it feels like playing tetris)
Anyway anon I’ll think about you when the results are out!
I was recently affected by the brainrot of classic disney short films from the ‘30s to the ‘50s so I gotta ask
Who do you prefer
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
also no, no neutral button you need to pick one