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!
Mmm. I've had my share of sciatica stuff in the past, Mine was to do with a little muscle known as the piriformis. Its little, but causes big pain. hopefully these medical costs don't bankrupt you, and you can feel somewhat more human at some point in the future. Hopefully soon.
The drug induced lalaland is one that can be lovely, but also frustrating while being trapped behind a veil. Some people love that feeling, but I feel diminished as a human. I don't like that feeling.
Oh sorry to read that you had your fair share of that too. I don't know that muscle (or should I say don't know it yet lol as I don't know what I will discover next week). What I do have is a secondary osteo arthrosis diagnosis from 5+ years ago after falling from stairs and messing up my back. I wonder if this will somehow be related I don't remember the exact spot where it was in my back as I have not had any issues with it for years.
We are privately insured here but I have a few exclusions as I was honest filling in the form when applying. But this falls under the insurance hopefully (I could leave out the previous back injury thing as the questionnaire asked within the last 5 years and these were just over, lol) and otherwise I can always reach out to "seguridad social" where they should always help, I just need to take care of some paperwork first which brings some other headaches even though they're not costly.
Things are very different here in Spain compared to US (assuming you're there?) and in the past when I lost my job here, while in sick-law, I had free insurance and was helped quite well, even pain meds only cost 0.25-2 euros tops each refill.
I fully agree with the drug-induced la-la-land stuff I was not happy the first day, dozing off to sleep constantly, especially not as it came in waves. The good side was I had no pain at all that day. I tried halving my dosis the second day as I was hoping for no / barely any pain while not being so spacey, but it didn't work, sadly. I also don't want to get used to them but on the other hand, I"m happy to have them at least until the scan shows what the issue is for sure and we'll take it from there.
I mostly hate not being able to do shit all day even though I know it will get better in a few weeks (that is if I still have them by that time) thankfully, I have a very helpful boyfriend who took my morning duties of driving the kid to summer school from me.
Sorry for the book comment :)