2 August 2005 (Tuesday)
now twenty-five percent dumber
Thank you for bearing with us during today's technical difficulties. As we get back online, it is my pleasure to tell you that my upper right wisoom tooth (tooth #1) has been moved from my jaw to my pocket. The extraction was a tad more challenging than my dentist expected, but still nothing he couldn't handle. Upon removing the tooth, he said: "Aha! That is a lady's tooth." Why? Because the roots were curved (the complicating factor, you see). At least he didn't say that it was because she gave him trouble.
I have just swallowed my first does of codeine (alas, no Percocet) and I expect to begin downing rice pudding momentarily.
feel better. haven't had those pulled yet (tho i prolly will need to soon).
go for ice cream!
Feel better! Eat lots of ice cream! :)
I hope you feel better too! Although, I still don't expect to see you at work tomorrow. And if you really, really want some percocet....
yuck... feel better. I had 3 of them removed earlier this year, and it wasn't fun. (I only had three of them. The fourth never came in, so I guess I was always 25% dumber than most people, and the dentist took away all of it).
And be sure you keep food particles *out* of that socket! They gave me some vague, "if it isn't starting to feel better by x # of days then come back speech." (I had 4 pulled at once. With novocaine. They thought I was strange for not wanting general. I thought they were strange for wanting their waiting room full of my non-school age kids while my husband waited for me to come out from under anesthesia so he could drive me home... with the novocaine he got to stay at home, logged into his work computer, the kids didn't get cooped up in the tiny waiting room and I got to drive myself.)
Anyway, important part: It didn't feel better, I went back, they insisted it was a "dry socket." (In my mind symptoms didn't quite match up, but they didn't believe me.) Long story short, they also happened to give me a syringe-type thingy with a thin curved tip for "irrigating" the sockets and helpiong to get food bits out... I used it, lots of food was no longer getting stuck, and it started getting better immediately. Dry sockets, my foot! Now why couldn't they give me one of those in the first place? So I highly recommend a water pick of some sort.
Feel better... (ice cream sounds scary, though. Too cold. This wasn't her tonsils, guys!)
Oh, and they just told me to take regular tylenol. *sob* At least you get codeine! (Okay, I was nursing a newborn, and they were probably scared to prescribe anything, but I've been prescribed tylenol with codeine while pregnant even!)
I hope you feel better! When I had mine out I barely ate for a week (not even ice cream seemed worth it :-(
any chance you'd share some codeine?
ClooJew - No sharing. Sorry. It hasn't been having much of an effect, though, so you're not missing much.
Lindsay - I've decided that you won't be seeing me tomorrow. Unless, of course, you want to come over after work and help me pack. And I'll manage without the Percocet, thanks. (See sharing, supra.)
mr. elf - No, no, the fourth is probably still in the recesses of your jaw. That's your hidden inner wisdom.
peninah, Rachel, Felicia - Thank you for the good wishes and ice cream encouragement. Not that I needed any encouragement, because...
Miriam P - The ice cream was actually a very yummy and very good dinner. (I did start off with some rice pudding, but I wouldn't exactly call that healthy either.)
Breakfast tomorrow: a banana smoothie. Mmmmmmm...
ow!!!
i think the wisdom just gets concentrated in the remaining three. you know, like if you lose an ovary, you just ovulate on the other side from then on.
ok, i've been reading WAY too many fertility blogs.
Feel better! And I second Miriam's advice about keeping food particles far away.
Packing already???
Refuah Sheleima! And enjoy the smoothies. And the codeine. Hmmm. A codeine smoothie?
yum! orthomom that sounds good. can i have some too?
BS"D
May you be blessed with a speedy & full recovery! I had all 4 out when I was 18 & spent 3 daze in bed zonked out on Tylenol 3s. Aside from the slightly yellow jaw (from bruising), I sailed through, mostly unconscious, barukh HaShem. When I was awake I sucked down hekshered meal replacements straight down my throat so as not to disturb the craters.
Don't be afraid to medicate!
Aviel
I only have half a wisdom tooth. The others never formed at all. The half is only kind of half formed, and is predicted to remain that way. I always claimed that I was evolutionarily ahead of the pack, since nobody has room in their shrunken jaws for wisdom teeth anymore, but, you're right--maybe I'm just 87.5% dumber than the rest of you! Refuah sheleyma!
