Snowy Visits to Oral Surgeons and Beyond
Jan. 21st, 2011 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzYesterday 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...
... 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...
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Date: 2011-01-22 03:42 am (UTC)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."