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| Wisdom Teeth; There's a Narrative of the whole thing. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 20 2008, 01:58 PM (56 Views) | |
| Aaia | Sep 20 2008, 01:58 PM Post #1 |
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Uggggghhh!!!! I will probably be on here, all day today, and tomorrow, and (hopefully) the next day...I got my wisdom teeth out, and it took almost 24hrs to even stop bleeding. so.....yeah. I might not be going to school on mon. Which I suppose is a good thing. (and a bad thing all in one) just....if you're reading this, you should read Aaia's posts, and consider RPing with me, cuz my current RP is going VERY slowly. no one replys. I hope I"m posting this in the right place.... Anyway. since no one's on right now, and no one is EVER on when I am, it's absolutely rotten luck, but...you know.... OH! I know! I'll write a narrative about what getting my wisdom teeth out was like!!! I spent the entire wait in the waiting room writing my novel, my mother was wringing her hands (she was uncontrollably nervous) my dad was reading brochures...I listened to the very faint music in the ambience, and observed the strange people coming in and out of the office. The clock slowly trudging by, one long second at a time, someone let out a soft snore behind me. I watched the fish slowly blubber from one end of the tank to the other, their bodies waving to propell them foreward lazily. A womans voice called gentely from somewhere to my left, "Insert my name here". (lol) I rose too quickly, giving me a head-rush. I followed the woman down a corridore, where she stopped at a cold, nearly empty room, a leather, maroon chair that reclined backward, and adjusted to the surgeon's needs perched in the center. It felt almost surreal, the whole environment, and my mind was filled with helium floating amongt the clouds...probably because of nerves. I was instructed by the woman in a light pink scrub, with nike tennies to sit on the chair, and scoot as far up on it as I could. She reclined it back into a laying position...pretty comfortable, I decided pleasantly. the ridge of my french braid not allowing my head to lay strait forward on the headrest. I stared at the ceiling, mild butterflys playing around in my stomach. She positioned a brace on my right arm, over my elbow to prevent me from bending my arm. and took my blood pressure. Everything was so bitter, and cold. Sergical...go figure. "What exactly is your job?" I asked her, curious about what her life must be like. "My title is surgeon's assistant, but I do all sorts of things." she said, obviously pushing conversation away. I then kept quiet, staring at the ceiling. she left the room after applying gelly tab-like things on my wrists and ankles, and stomach. I could hear the bustling of other people in her field of work outside the door. To pass time, I counted microscopic indents in the ceiling tiles....I concluded after my eyes skipped around, struggling to concentrate on each particular hole, that there were 625 on each square, and trying to occupy my mind, I counted how many tiles there were, I combined each half-square around the edges with eachother, to create a whole...there ended up being. about sixty. Sixty times 625 is 37,500 little holes on the entire ceiling, but then there was the light fixtures and such that made it less...but I didnt have time to calculate that, because Dr. Logan, and the woman who had been with me before entered the room, a small chinease woman in tow. Without further adeu, Dr. Logan told me to make a fist with my right hand, I abided with no argument, but then I saw the needle...When I get shots and such, I always try to relax all the way to get away with as little pain as possible, but he insisted I make a fist so I just grumbled about it a little, but did as he said...slightly hesitant. He pricked me with the needle, and a burning sensation shot up my arm and stopped at my shoulder, the small chinease woman instructed me to open my mouth as wide as I could. The air tasted like chlorine...odd...I thought. She wedged something in my mouth, to keep it open, and the woman I'd met earlier said, "you're going to feel a bit sleepy now, so dont fight it alright?". I dont even remember falling alseep, but the next thing I knew, the same woman was helping me up. Everything was black, I couldnt hear anything but her voice, with a leap of trust, I let her lead me out of the chair. "But I'm not even alseep yet!" I exclaimed. "Shhh...dont open your eyes, you'll be dizzy. Everything's over." She assured. I eventually opened my eyes as she was helping me lay into a bed in "the recovery room", I was FREEZING COLD! The room spun around me as she put an icepack against my numb cheek. I rolled onto my side, and drifted off to sleep. I awoke to the same woman slightly shaking me to help me up again. "Put the ice on the other side now" she instructed as she helped me stand, leading me out the back door, where I noticed my parents waiting in the car, shotgun was all mine. Mom sitting in the back. When I got home my parents helped me settle in, my drooling had stopped for the most part, but my mouth hurt SO BAD! so mom let me take a Vikaden, and I was out like a light. For the rest of the day, awakening every twenty minutes for mom to change the gauze that was in my mouth to stop the bleeding...I hardly even remember waking up then. |
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| Rosaline | Sep 20 2008, 04:27 PM Post #2 |
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Oh golly. I skipped part of that, most of that...just becuase I'm getting mine out in December and am TERRIFIED. When my mom had hers out, they almost broke her jaw. And she looked like she'd been beaten. I'm so so so scared to get mine done. Like...really. Did you get IV anesthesia? or gas? I'm getting the IV. and I hate needles. Thats the biggest part of it. |
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| Aaia | Sep 21 2008, 05:40 PM Post #3 |
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It's really not as bad as you might anticipate. I was a very high risk, because my upper wisdom teeth were puncuring my sinuses, and my lower ones were crushing my nerves...but they did it with an IV. It was really no big deal, but you drool alot, and the second day, it's kinda hard to open your mouth, but I've only taken two Vikaden since the operation....It doesnt even hurt anymore, and it's only been 72 hours. I have chubby cheeks now though, but I dont feel any discomfort, and I could hardly even tell that I'd had anything done, unless I look in the mirror, and I look like a chipmunk. lol. But I'm only 16, I dont know how old you are...but. I'm really a wimp, and this was pretty moderate. It doesnt hurt NEARLY as bad as braces...if at all. so.... relax. Your going to be fine. |
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| Rosaline | Sep 21 2008, 07:00 PM Post #4 |
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I'm almost 20... the thing with this sort of thing...is that like, its supposed to get worse/more painful, harder to recover from when you're older, so even tho its only 4 years....I dunno. Not to mention that they're impacted...but I dunno. I'm a big baby myself. Anok said he'd buy me flowers and a chocolate milk shake though...:D |
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| Karashi | May 20 2009, 02:09 PM Post #5 |
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How did the big Wisdom teeth removal go for you Rosaline? All I really remember from mine is the recovery and all i did was wake up eat some applesauce, take a pill, and go back to sleep. Yay for sleeping through the pain! 
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| Rosaline | May 20 2009, 03:15 PM Post #6 |
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Mine was a slight nightmare, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. I was fully out, but woke up at the end of the procedure when they were pulling out another tooth I needed removed. Other than being the most adorable little stoner on the block and being unable to spell the word 'water' (kai was witness to this) The pain medication made me sick to my stomach and I had to decide...heave and puke with stitches in my mouth, or cut the pain pills short...so I had a few miserable days there in a lot of pain, but...other than that it was ok. I bled LOTS...and I didn't get that damned milk shake cuz I couldn't use straws 
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| Karashi | May 21 2009, 01:30 AM Post #7 |
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Sounds like yours was quite painful. (I'm surprised you used the word "slight" even if it did precede "Nightmare".) I'm sorry to hear that, but thankfully it is past, right? |
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| Rosaline | May 21 2009, 09:45 AM Post #8 |
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Haha, well you'll learn about me, I hate sounding whiny I'm glad its over for sure. It was in January, but I have an appointment next week as like the final follow up since I had extra stuffs done. It'll be interesting to hear what they say...I might have to have another tooth or two removed...I might just be like "I CAN CHEW ITS FINE!"
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| Karashi | May 21 2009, 10:42 AM Post #9 |
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That's terrible that you have to have a follow-up. Hopefully nothing will be wrong and the nightmare can end!
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