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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
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6:55a - Teeth Story...no flashy title I could think of
So for the past two days I've been in a pain-free medicated haze of sleep, and interminble stretches of reading/writing fanfiction, except for when my damn electricity went out, and I than just sat there for like 4 hours listening to my Ipod in the middle of the night with creepy grim reaper-esque shadows everywhere.
The oral surgery was...strange, to say the least. My stupid father...he joked to the dentist assistant lady during the x-rays I wrote about before that they would have to sedate me before giving me the shot to sedate me, because I'm so bad with shots (stupid needles...I hate needles!)...so they did. Well, kinda. They gave me laughing gas, though it was decididly NOT a laughing matter. I had decided against wearing contact lenses, since even though I've fallen asleep with them in the past (and worn 8 hour lenses for 24), I've been trying to be good with them lately, so I wore glasses with the idea of taking them off beforehand. BAD IDEA. VERY, VERY BAD IDEA. I can see very little (mostly just sploches of color and fuzzy shapes) without my glasses. And then they put the laughing gas...thing, over my nose. Now I'm not sure if it was sleep-deprivation from being nervous the night before (or the fact my dad didn't trust my mom to wake-up with her alarm, so decided to wake me up at 7:30 to make sure I got up...thus breaking the already broken from not being able to sleep, at least 6 hours of sleep before surgery rule...the bastard) or the laughing gas itself, or maybe just nerves...but I couldn't think when I got the laughing gas put over my nose. And Dr.Agronaut had said to tell them when things got 'strange'. Well things never did get strange...but what was already very blurry got MUCH blurrier, and my heart felt like it was slowing down, and I...PANICKED. A lot. Because, like I explained above, I couldn't think at all, and in my un-thinking brain, I didn't realize I could open my mouth to talk (he had said before putting the nozzle on, make sure your mouth is shut tight and just breathe through your nose...I didn't realize it was only my willpower keeping it closed, and not the nozzle...I was really, really disoriented). So then I kept thinking, in my panic, that they wouldn't eventually stop it, and things would just keep getting blurrier and slower until everything stopped. I have a sneaking suspicion it didn't have the desired effect with me (it is after all, called laughing gas). By the time I did realize I could talk (with a sudden, frenzied jolt) I kept repeating "everything's blurry" from what sounded like a great distance. The assistant lady, who had told me beforehand, that though they would inform me when they were going to give me the shot, that I MUST just keep looking at her face, just nodded and smiled and I had the horror stroken thought that she had seen me take off my glasses and follow her very cautiously, and WHAT IF SHE THOUGHT I WAS REFERING TO THAT??? So I finally got out of my mouth that it was freaking me out a little bit and her smile faltered and she seemed to see my panic cause she immediatly moved it aside a little and said it was alright.
I hope this isn't too off track...but I'd forgotten to say about her. Before the laughing gas, she had made me a 1000 times nervouser than I had been before because she kept referring too how nervous I must be, and how nervous most people are before the "surgery", and I know she was trying to ease my nerves, but she just made me a lot more worried. And then she hooked up one of those blood pressure cuff things to my right arm "to check my blood pressure every five minutes to make sure everything was alright". Which was scary cause that meant my heart COULD actually slow...and maybe stop. And also, I'd never had novacain before so she started talking about that (once before I had 2 teeth taken out by my regular dentist...but I NEVER, EVER allowed him to go near me with any needles) and that freaked me out too. I had thought it was just a shot I'd get in my gums when I was sleep...but then she told me for people who've never had it before it can pretty "freakish" (her words, not mine), and then she lied and told me that when I woke-up it would feel like my lip was twice its size, and my face was all bloated, but it'd be just in my head.
But anyways...back to the story. After the laughing gas came off, the "doctor" gave me the shot, and I stole a glance and it was like an intervenus tube where it stayed in my arm. Which surprised me, cause it again reinforced the whole "surgery" idea. So then the assistant lady told me again to keep focusing on her (and at one point at a pick-nic table outside the window no one ever uses...which I thought she was crazy for saying because she knew I couldn't see far, but then realized she was even crazier when later it was all said and done and I had my glasses on I realized I couldn't have seen it from where I had been sitting anyways, as the shutters covered most of the window, and my seat wasn't low enough and it was pretty damn far away anyways). So anyways (sorry for the reapted usage of 'so anyways' btw)...there we were waiting for me to fall asleep. She was asking me stupid questions...I remember she asked me about my grade in school, but the other questions blur. Then all of a sudden it was black.
I think they might have messed-up. They told me the whole entire thing would most likely take less than an hour (meaming the before hand stuff too). The appointment had been for ten, so logically you'd think eleven. I woke-up at one point to the nozzle on my nose again, and I was confused. I saw blurs around again, and I heard the assistant lady's voice remark she was hungry. Then she must have seen my eyes flutter cause she asked me if I believed it was already 11:30. That confused me, though at the time I couldn't remember why that'd be weird. Then I blacked out again. I woke-up again and my mom walked in the room. I don't know if I fell asleep again, but the next thing I know the assistant lady's back explaining 'what to do now' to my mom. She saw me, and she strted saying about how I'd have to switch the gauze stuff every 15 minutes for the 1st hour, but not after that or it could worsen the bleeding. I was all like "I'm bleeding? huh?" Then she did just that and took gauze out from the back of my teeth soaked red. I felt slightly like throwing up. My face felt puffy. I remember kept thinking "must fnd mirror". Blood drizzeled on my shirt, but I hadn't felt it drool.
So I ran to a bathroom and saw my face. It was like a chimpmunk's (it wasn't all in my head!). The lady said I was leaving I couldn't fall asleep for more than an hour cause I had to make sure the ice compressions on my cheeks switched every half hour.
Then I went home and for breakfast, lunch and dinner (couldn't eat or drink before surgery) ate like 12 of those little dove ice cream bars. Which was funny, cause as the box proudly remarks, they only have 60 calories each, which means despite the fact I ate only ice cream and chocolate all day, still had a drastically lower calorie intake than normal, to which I say...ice cream and chocolate diets for everyone!!!!!!!!!!
Since then I've been sleeping and reading...I have to get a check-up on my teeth when I'm in Florida. Anpther reason why I think something might be off...when I was at the pre-urgery thing the dictor had said it was no big deal at all that I was going to Florda three days later. But then after the surgery, hen he was reminded, he kinda paled and said he'd call my house later with a number of a dentist there "just for a check-up" he said. Maybe I'm just overeacting.
Anyways, my sleep schedules all off again, but I think I'll update later. I just had to get this all out. I think I made it too drama-yish, sorry about that. Its really not that big a deal, if anyone else has to get their wisdom teeth pulled out, and it doesn't hurt much with the medicine. Plus, by the end of the day you can talk normally again! I hadn't expected that. And you get to keep the teeth...I really want to get them made into a creepy necklace.
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