Snowy Visits to Oral Surgeons and Beyond

[kybearfuzz]

Yesterday was a potential recipe for disaster. I went to work early, the snow began to fall in the morning, I had an appointment with an oral surgeon, had to hit the grocery and the pharmacy, then drove home in the growing snowfall.

... and yet, everything went okay.

I went to the oral surgeon to have an apicoectomy on a back molar. The technician sat me in the chair, put my finger in a sensor to a heart rate monitor, and then gave me the lovely nitrous oxide, better known as the laughing gas. While the doc was cutting through the bone under my gums, I was in a totally relaxed state. I almost went to sleep and it has been so long since I've felt so relaxed.

So with a mouthful of stitches, I was sent on my merry way in the snow.

And now I get to spend a few days chewing on the left only, but despite being given some really grand pain meds, I'm feeling pretty okay without them.

Happy Friday y'all...

Comments

[spatts5.livejournal.com]

Should we call you Lefty now?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL... hopefully, I'll be back to versatile chewing soon :)

[texwriterbear.livejournal.com]

Glad yesterday was much better than expected!!

[martini-tim.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a speedy recovery. It seems like many people on my LJ friends list went to the dentist yesterday.

[madknits.livejournal.com]

A speedy recovery, and the ability to chew on the right side again.

[dendren.livejournal.com]

*shudder shudder shudder* hate tooth stuff. Hope it heals up right quick!

[dewittar.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute. There must be something wrong with my LJ because that can't be right. Did you say you're NOT using the pain meds?

Whatever on earth why not?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

LOL... well, it doesn't hurt...

I guess the proper LJ response would be, "I'm saving them for a special occasion" :D

[dewittar.livejournal.com]

This!

[bruinwi.livejournal.com]

As nasty as all that sounds, you seem to be doing OK.

It would've been fun to record a conversation with you, immediately post-surgery.
"I feel...funny. Oh, look! My hand ends right...there. It's cold out here in the snow; do you think the doctor would mind if I went back to his office and got my coat? Wow...the COLORS! Is this real life, or am I in a movie? I can't feel my face...OMG! Am I even HERE? Can you see me??? Oh...good. I like tater tots."

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Speedy healing!!!!!

Mind your chewing. ;-)