Today I had the honor of having my husband assist in a dental procedure that involved the yanking out of two of my wisdom teeth. His Prof. and super Extractionist did the actual yanking and Nathan was the lucky man to give me the needles. He gave me many cuz I’m a big baby! I was um… anxious to say the least today, usually I’m not that freaked out about going to the dentist but these teeth have been the source of a great amount of pain, discomfort and migranes for me for so long, and the thought kept coming into my mind that they were hanging in there with their little roots twisted into my jaw for dear life. The first tooth was actually a breeze (if I do say so myself) but the second one was lodged in my lower jaw bone and tucked a corner under it’s neighbour tooth. Let me just say that he didn’t want to let go of his buddy and they needed to break out the drill in order to separate them from each other and from the bone. Can you say pain? Pressure? ROTFL umm it was interesting, I thought my jaw was going to rip off he was yanking that tooth so hard. No amount of freezing can take away the fact that someone with pliers is reefing on your head! After the surgery everyone was sweetly teeling me how well I did, how great I handled it and how nice it was that I allowed other students to observe. I wanted to break into tears but I held on to them till I reached my van and finally vented all of that pent up fear that I’d built up in my mind. I was alright, a little sore but I think this will really help my health and hopefull reduce my headache factor significantly.
Nathan has been such a sweet and attentive nurse to me. He has gotten a kick out of listening to me drugged up on Tylenol with Codeine and proclaiming that in fact “Blue is the NEW Purple!” I think I also announced something about my affection for polkadots, pickles and fuzzy slippers. He just sat with me and giggled as I talked nonsense (more than usual). What a guy!
I’m proud of my Dental Wonder, he’s quite the catch. Hopefully I won’t have a cheek swollen out like a baseball tomorrow. I’m in alot of pain but hey I got to ride in a fun chair today, I got happy drugs and lots of popsicles.
Life is a bowl of cherries. Off to get some new gauze.