Quick surgery. Maybe ten minutes. The stitching up finished at 9:17. I had a tooth with six roots! The oral surgeon said he'd never seen anything like it before. Crazy.
now it's 1:31, and I'm getting loopy. After a long while in pain, like, two and a half hours, I was given a different medicine. Lortab. It's lovely. I'm soooooooooooo sleepy, but I want to finish my lunch before I sleep. :)
This is how I looked:
There is a very, very big chance that I will regret putting this picture on here. But I look better in that photo than I do now.
So that picture will stay, and...
I will regret it less than if I would regret posting a current photo.
The swelling generally gets worse for the first 48 hours...
I'm on Lortab again. Maybe that's why I decided to finish this post...
Lortab is lovely. I've got some decent bruising going on. Artistically, it could even be a morbid masterpiece of colors. The Lortab is really helping me out.
My family is helpful too. Ashton has been willingly ensuring my comfort all day. Right now we're watching Iron Giant together. Earlier we played the Pokémon card game. He barely beat me. I was ahead for so long but then at the very last minute, he plowed through a ton of my Pokémon. We were both on our last one, and he beat me by one attack. But it's only 'cause he had two Richus in his deck, and one of my special cards....
I have a great family. Por ejemplo: My dad made me soup earlier, and last night my mom made me a bed on the couch downstairs. Maya has been super willing to get me ice and leave me alone, or get me water and talk and joke, depending on what I seem to need. Sean bought me a milkshake after picking me up last night, and then he stayed up late with me letting me eat some of his coveted ice cream and we watched a really cool documentary on helvetica (called HELVETICA) while I was having trouble going to sleep.
That's just to name a few of the favors from family. It's always a strange experience for me to re-realize that 'best friends' and 'family' are not universal synonyms.
They are synonyms for me. The members of my family are my truest, closest friends.
And thus concludes the wisdom teeth post rant on family.
fin,
la cuarta
Lucky. I was dragged on a hike two days after :P
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how your family is just always there when you need it. And it's always so subtle until something 'big' happens.
Hope the swelling gets better sweetie. Lortab is really nice for just being able to sleep and be comfortable the whole time. Ice cream helps too.
Same. :) BTW...thanks for today's "ice cream"...it was tasty. ;) We'll have to play again sometime, yeah?
ReplyDeleteLove, Me.