The big day was the Friday before Thanksgiving. (No, you don’t have to feel sorry for me because yes, I intentionally scheduled it that way.)
I only had upper wisdom teeth and they were fully erupted, so I elected to have the surgery with only local anesthetic. There were those who thought I was crazy. I could see it in their eyes. And admittedly that made me think I might be crazy a bit myself. But in the end, I figured if I could have a baby on my living room floor, getting my wisdom teeth extracted with no more aid than Novocain should be a piece of cake.
Aside from prep time, the actual extraction took all of about a minute and thirty seconds. Seriously. I know because I was listening to my mp3 player and I didn’t even make it to the chorus of the first song. I asked the doctor if he was kidding when he told me he was done.
Alexander was a bit surprised when he found out that I’d gone out shopping after the extraction. (I didn’t want to fill the prescription for pain meds that the doctor had given me, but I figured that having some Tylenol on hand wouldn’t be a bad thing, so I stopped to pick some up on my way home – and did a bit of window shopping while I was at it :) I’m getting the feeling though, that Alexander’s starting to view me as a bit of a superwoman, so I’m thinking that I might have to start hauling out the damsel-in-distress routine a bit more often if I expect his help in the future.
It turned out that I didn’t even need the Tylenol. Actually, I probably would have taken the Tylenol on two occasions – day 1 after the anesthetic totally wore off and day 5 when it felt like I had a migraine in my jaw – but I get really bad “withdrawal” headaches for about three days after taking any kind of pain meds, so I decided to suffer in the short vs. long term.
Other than those relatively brief moments of pain (and feeling like food was constantly getting stuck in the spaces where my teeth used to be), the whole experience was relatively simple and easy. It remains to be seen whether I’m dumber or not, sans-teeth.
But, after four kids sucking it out of me for six years, I really rather doubt that I had that much wisdom left anyway.
1 comment:
Bravo!! And actually it only feels as if the children are sucking it out of you. After they leave home and you have time to consider, you'll find that you have gained a lot of wisdom during those years!!
mamasmama
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