Wisdom Teeth

8:45 AM is when the "terror" began. I filled out the paper work, met and talked with the doctor and then was sent to another room for the actual removal. I sat in the chair and 3 nurses just kind of attacked me (3 because one was being trained): put a pillow thing under my neck, put a pressure thing on my arm, a heart rate thing on my finger, other monitoring devices, attempted to put my IV in, put the oxygen thing under my nose, actually got the IV in, put a thing in my mouth to hold it open and then the doctor came in. Devices that force you into certain positions, like my mouth open, are super duper scary. There's not a darn thing you can do about it. The male nurse was like "I'm going to start the medicine now." I said "Okay" and then I was out. Next thing I know they are helping me out of the chair and into a rolling recliner chair where they take me to a recovery room where another man is snoring away haha.

He saw my X-Rays before hand and said it would be pretty easy simply because they all had broken the surface and were pretty straight. The top ones were angled back though, and that's why they were messing up my orthodontic work. :b It took 45 minutes for him, so I was in the recovery room before 10AM

My tongue felt super swollen but it was just numb, as well as my bottom lip/jaw. It's 3PM now and everything feels normal except my actual chin. It's still a bit tingly and numb.

I stayed in the car after while we ran a few errands, and got my prescriptions filled. Amoxicillin (anti biotic) and Vicoden. No bad reactions to the vicoden and it's been about 2 hours so I think I'll be good. Wahoo! I waited until 1 to take it because I didn't want to remove my first gauze until the 2-3 hours had passed. When I took that first sip of 7 up it really hurt. They recommended it though, so I took my vicoden, and put ice on it and now it's just a dull ache.

So far, the worst part has been that random stabbing pain on the left side, and the constant gauze in my mouth. Can't wait til I don't need it! Slim fast for lunch, and if I quit being lazy, jello and maybe some soup for dinner. I'll update in a few days maybe.

Steve has been pretty wonderful. He's had to get me stuff because I was still dizzy from the anesthetic for a few hours there. I've had to text him a lot of things because I was numb and couldn't really talk, and with the gauze, I'm still kind of hard to understand, so I've been using the notepad on the computer haha.

Pray I have quick healing!