Teef

[foolish_m0rtal]

Just got my four wisdom teeth out. I've been sleeping all day. I remember when I was on the gas but not knocked out yet, I was making (to me, at the time) lucid conversation about my Holography and Nuclear Science classes at Governor's School, specifically how we would mess around with the dry ice in the Nuclear Science cloud chamber and the 3-D hologram of the Ferrari we made in Holography. I was trying to distract myself from the fact that they were putting an IV in me. (I don't like IVs. I don't like having something foreign in me for an extended period of time. No, that is NOT what she said)

So Nuclear Science was the right arm, where they couldn't find the vein. Holography was the left arm, when they finally got the vein.

I was talking to one of the nurses and remember wanting to be polite and talk to the other nurse (hey, they're going to be taking care of me while I'm out) when I think I finally passed out from the gas.

When I woke up, I shook hands with the nurses and the doctor, said thanks as much as I could manage through the gauze, and then apparently gestured for my dad to come forward and then punched him in the arm like old times to show him I was fine. Doctor was apparently amused.

GOOD. I thought I was going to say strange things under the gas. Carvajal, the doctor, looks like Major Evan Lorne from Stargate Atlantis, so I thought I was going to make a fool of myself and be all like, "Hey, Major Lorne. Hey. Hey hey hey. Lo-o-r-ne. Hey, can I call you Evan?"

I would have never been able to look this man in the face again.

This is the same guy that was like, "So, let me tell you how we're going to take out your teeth. Since they're impacted, we're going to cut your gums, shatter the teeth, and then pick out the shards. So you want to be awake or unconscious?"

Um, what the hell do YOU think? Godammit, Lorne, get it together.

And so, I add to the wisdom teeth extraction stories, first started by obseletevulture .

Comments

[x-mog.livejournal.com]

You make me ph33r. x.x

Dentist told me MINE are impacted and must come out. Nuuuuuuuuuu! T__T

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

hey, it's all good. You fall asleep, and then you wake up. It's no big deal. Just get a lot of soft stuff like soup and pudding to eat later.

The only thing I was freaked out about was the IV, and my doctor did that FINE.

I was all freaked out about it, and I really shouldn't have been.

My doctor said the difficulty of my teeth was a 2, so I was done in 45 minutes. Just opt to get knocked out. Much better.

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Pudding. yes. The pudding. Oh God.
You'll never want to eat so much pudidng again. Four days of pudding and cream of mushroom soup, and looking like a groundhog or a stroke victim.
Oh the joys of teefs.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

ooh, I got tomato basil soup for good behaviour.

And I definitely look more like a groundhog.

What kind of pudding did you get? I pre-meditated my diet, so I was allowed to pick out some of my own food the day before the surgery. I got this awesome pudding on sale: it's rice pudding that tastes like creme brulee. (not the meds talking- it really does. It says so on the BOX!)

My posts have not been...very coherent as of late...and it takes me forever to type

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I got Key-lime flavored pudding. for living in Florida. (And being obsessed with limes anyway...)

Tomato-basil soup sounds good. T_T I had to eat out of cans. Cheap cans.

My posts are never coherent, groundhogs aside.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

I had to go back and see Carvajal today, and I told him about the other Carvajal in Florida who took out my friend's wisdom teeth.

Carvajal: Huh. *writes it down* Neat! I'm gonna have to call him!

FM and FM's mom: o_O

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

I got all four out like...last year, yes? So I feel your pain. I had meds that jsut knocked me out, though. Then there was where they sewed my cheek to my gums...and all that delightful business about tearing the corners of my mouth,a nd the dentist saying over me (in spanish) "it's a good thing she doesn't know spanish."
...
Oh yes, wisdom teeth. You some out, and you feel as bright as cheese.

The irony, is, my doctor is also Doctor Carvajal. More or less spelled the same way. I'm mystified.

Though my teeth weren't impacted...

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

i>Then there was where they sewed my cheek to my gums...and all that delightful business about tearing the corners of my mouth,a nd the dentist saying over me (in spanish) "it's a good thing she doesn't know spanish."

Um, ow? I remember wincing through your wisdom tooth entry.

I don't curse too much online, so pardon me but What. The. FUCK.

Your doctor's name is also Carvajal? o_O

This is like, the strangest experience ever. Am I still on the meds? *sits down*

[obseletevulture.livejournal.com]

It's probably meds, but it's still true. ^_^;;
Small world, huh? Yours probably doesn't talk in spanish, though.

[foolish-m0rtal.livejournal.com]

No. I'm guessing your doctor is Pedro Carvajal. Mine is William Carvajal. (William Carvajal Williams? Dental surgeon by day, moonlighting as a bold and lawless poet by night?)

Today, I decided to remain conscious, so I forwent the meds and made chocolate souffle.