Third orthodontist appointment

This by far was the WORST appointment than the previous appointments because this time I had to have four sets of elastics! I had to get an X ray before I was seen and then when I came into the orthodontist room, they had pictures of my old jaw X ray and the one I had taken just earlier that day! It was so weird because they were put next to each other and there was more things that you could compare. So my orthodontist took out the wire from my bottom brace and then placed this new wire in but not to tighten the brace (at least I don't think so anyway LOL) and apparently it was more flexible too! Then he put these grey elastics that can go across the whole brace on both my top and bottom brace, this was so uncomfortable but I had these on my top brace before, but it was before my surgery! Then he put a mirror in front of me to show me how to put on my other elastics, with these ones I could remove them but I can't remove the grey ones. I could only take them off when I eat and brush my teeth! This then gave me so much achy pain afterwards but my orthodontist assured me "It's to make everything perfect".  I know in the future I'll say all of this was worth the pain but right now it's killing, but it's great to have such a supporting orthodontist that is certain to make all this treatment worth it! My next appointment isn't until 11th August, I don't know if I will still have to wear elastics after that appointment but by the 11th, my surgery would have been 1 month and 1 week ago. AH that's crazy! Let's see what the future appointments hold!