Today was a day like any other. I woke up. I didn't take a drink of water. I got onto the toilet, and did the normal morning routine - except it wasn't a normal routine.
I jumped into a ride share service vehicle, with 219,000+ KM on the clock, and a defective seatbelt which wouldn't retract. I didn't die on the way to the hospital, and I didn't die during the surgery that removed my left wisdom teeth. The right descended perfectly, and didn't need intervention, thankfully.
I made what I thought was a funny joke to the man with the blowdart who was meant to be put me to sleep for the surgery "How often does a plane crash?" - he spoiled the joke by immediately responding "Once".
I got a cannula put in my left arm, got told to breathe in a mask, and was told goodnight. Sometime later, which was probably just a moment as far as my cognitive load was concerned, I opened my eyes and was breathing through an oxygen mask; with some gauze in my mouth.
I felt like I wanted to give everyone in the area a hug, but I feel about as numb now as I did in those moments, and that urge to hug everyone in sight has certainly subsided, replaced with a forceful, upwards ache in my left mouth, which is swelling slightly.
I've eaten - if you can call it that, two icey poles, lemonade flavoured, a small thingy of custard, and about a further 600-900 calories of frozen fruit juice. I also got given what I've dubbed to be an "ice hijab", which I can wrap around my face in order to use as make shift pain relief. Right now, it feels foolish to use that, given the temperature of the house is in the neighbourhood of the low double digits.
That's probably helpful.
I've been given painkillers and antibiotics, and one of them I must use every 6 hours (I don't want an infected face, blood stream, or mouth!) - and the other is on an as required basis. I haven't taken any pain relief since I left the hospital, because really, it isn't that bad - and eating frozen fruit juice tends to numb the site enough for me to not care.
I'll probably take some painkiller before bed so that I can get some sleep. Lucky it also causes drowsiness and is labelled as a "controlled drug".
Look at me, I'm rambling all these words while fading in and out of post-anaesthesia day dreams.
I had a vasovagel incident as the nurse was supplying discharge instructions, and I got the pleasure of being surrounded by several helpful and concerned nurses all at once. At least I knew what it was, and told them before it happened, so it could be dealt with in a matter of seconds. It was. I came to, a bit sweaty, with seconds having passed.
I'm fine now, other than the throbbing pain in my face.
I have delegated some HP to @rickonthemoun10 for the time that I will take to recover, and I've also delegated some HP to @strega.azure who is one of the finest users on this platform.
Enjoy your ability to reward authors with reckless abandon until I feel up for manual curation once more.
In the interim here is a shitty selfie. My hair is outstandingly messy. Note the slight swelling on the left hand side of the image.
Ahh I remember wisdom removal and floating around the house due to incorrect spacings of drugs xD Hope you have a fast and easy recovery :D
Its very slow so far
Well hope it speeds up. Just remember to ease back into things when you're feeling better so you don't relapse :D
I got 1 injection of anesthesia during the operation.
No drugs, so i had no wobbly feeling as it healed.
JUST FIGHTING MY INNER DEMONS OF PAIN
That sounds straight up awful x_x
I have no enemies
Where is your wisdom now daddy?
I had one of my molar teeth removed because of tooth decay, funny enough the wisdom tooth fits perfectly and essentially replaced the molar tooth. Its as if nothing happened.
UWU hope you recover soon.
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@ryivhnn Wut are you doing here.
That's a great story, probably just as painful as mine, as well! :D
Love you bro!
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I remember when I got my wisdom teeth out. Both sides were impacted, so I needed them both cut out. They wouldn't do it all at once, so that two sepreate surgeries. Oddly I only remember one of them. Maybe there is a reason I blocked out the other... 🤔 They didn't knock me out for mine, just gave Novocain. Lots and lots of it. I remember he gave me a lot and everything was numb. Then he started cutting and asked me if I felt anything. I didn't, but he must have mistook my grunt for pain and I felt the needle poke me several more times as he injected more. From there the room was spinning. I could feel the pressure as he cut and scraped and pulled, but beyond that I was in happy land. I remember my dad picked me up and drove me to their house. Evidently I laid on their couch for the rest of the day and most of the next, but I have no memory of that.
Good times. I hope your recovery goes well!
Time went so quickly immediately after waking up after the surgery, but now due to the pain (albeit muffled and muddled by painkillers) - is making me exhausted, bit simultaneously anxious about my first night's sleep and where that is going to come from.
I am very grateful that you did not die. I would have to comment on your posts myself and try to imitate your detective inquisitiveness.
I think talking to myself in my head is totally enough for me in regard sinking myself into madness.
The delegation took me completely by surprise. I click carefree 100% and there instead of customary 2 round, pot-bellied zeros - a delicious four :D
-What the ****?
I hope you will use your recovery time well. Return to us with new energy, so it will compensate your, you know... lack of 1/4 of your wisdom :)
There, I fixed it for you:)
Perfect. It's half my wisdom missing. I made a joke with friends last night and it made me smile. That HURT like absolute buggery, so I'm finding serious things to do, like trying to distil only two computer monitors in front of me instead of four.
There's physically two.
But technically only one was taken by force, right? So hear my out - maybe, just maybe - this 1/4 stayed there? Maybe there is a chance for more, witty, and maybe little bit meanspirited comments in the future?
Sounds like shitty time, really. Did you gained any new powers or something as a price for a pain and all those money?
I have gained the power of drooling and mouth breathing. I shall soon be an unstoppable force.
I guess it something!
< squints eyes > It is, right?
Maybe you filled wrong form before the operation, eh? Or ticked wrong boxes?
Pretty sure my depression, wit, anxiety, humour, and generalised disdain for everything still exists, so I'm okay, with a splattering of oral pain and the ability to eat custard like its going out of fashion. I fucking love custard. I've got to have my antibiotics in 15 minutes, so I get to have 150 calories of custard
I am glad that your personality is unspoiled! I will check on you tomorrow(my tomorrow :D)
Really glad you are - relatively - ok:)
This is the way maths should work, I like that. I eat oat custard, becouse plant one is only one I can have it, but really like this odd liquid, yellowish thing!
Lets hope nobody made a video of you like this one:
:)
Just wait, after day 3 it all gets better.
No videos. Just the above photo. It hurts to smile or laugh, so I'll be staying away from comedy.
This was too funny, thanks for sharing :)
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I'm sure you'd be fine by the time you finish your dosage
Take good care of yourself
I hope you have a quick recovery.. any pain tooth related sucks big time if you ask me. I had my fair share of tooth troubles and still have some stuff to fix as well. After some nightmare dentists in Hungary, I'm not really keen on finding a new one here, thanks for the reminder though, lol. Should make an appointment.
Do they always do this with anesthesia there? I remember being injected by the jaw surgeon for one trouble wisdom tooth but never being put to sleep.
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It very much depends. When I met with the surgeon for my consultation before hand, he took one look at me (And the xray) and immediately said he'd put me to sleep for the procedure, because 1) "You're too big, you'll fight back", but probably more so, 2) it was going to be a difficult procedure,
I'm glad I was asleep for it.
Makes sense, in any complicated case, I'd probably prefer it myself but I just never had the option while I guess that one time at the jaw surgeon there was a good reason. I also had one that they were trying to get out with 3 people but the thing didn't move an inch, will spare the details but that was public dental care (free) by mostly students, wouldn't recommend it.
Sounds horrific. Apologies that my post brought on such traumatic memories for you.
I don't regret getting this done, because if I left it, it would be much worse in the future, but at the same time, present me, hates past me. Future me may thank me, if future me continues to exist beyond this recovery period, which I intend to.
No don't worry about it, I wanted to spare you the details while you're in this state lol. I'm afraid to go to a new dentist as previous ones have proven not to be that great but it's not that I feel bad reading about this topic, don't worry!
Nicely said, Had to read it twice though :)
Sometimes you have to get it over with to prevent worse, I have personally been postponing the reason mostly of other things having priority, which is stupid because tooth problems can cause a lot of other health issues, so I should be smarter, lol.
You did the right thing there though, so you're good hehe.
Thanks. It is the small things that I enjoy at the moment. I drove to the bus station to pick up my wife a few hours ago, and it was the first time behind a wheel since Sunday last week, and it felt good. She doesn't drive, so it is pretty much the only thing I've been able to do to be helpful around the house apart from whimper and play charades for the last four days.
Haha this made me laugh! Your wife is lucky! I currently have a personal driver too as I'm on tramadol for my back (suggested sciatica, scan next week) and I'm drifting to la-la-land every time I take them.
These moments are a good reminder to enjoy the little things in life, so at least not all was bad with this surgery ;) and probably once healed you're super happy it's behind you!
You must be killin' it out here!
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