Well yesterday i had 4 wisdom teeth removed. They put me to sleep, and that was probably the funnest part of the whole thing. As the guy was pumping my arm with this white sleep anesthetic, I started to get dizzy, everything felt fuzzy and weird, and I blacked out. I guess that's what dying from a lethal injection feels like, except you don't wake up. There hadn't come out yet, so that had to cut open my gums in 4 placees and dig them out. In the lower right corner of my mouth, that wisdom tooth was growing in a really wierd place so cut there was freaking huge.
When I woke up from the anesthetic in what seemed like minutes later, I felt really dizzy and said I couldn't feel my mouth. The nurse said "that's cause we cut off your hands" or something like that. Har har. I was drooling into a plate and she asked me to rinse my mouth out. As you could imagine, it was quite difficult considering I couldn't even feel where my mouth was. The first time I tried it, the water ran straight down my face. It must have been hilarious to anyone watching, but (un)fortunately no one was in the room.
I went home, watched TV for a bit, everything seemed fine, it was just swollen and painful, but not too bad...then suddenly everything started going to shit. It started to hurt a LOT, and I didn't know that it would hurt this much but it felt like the inside of my mouth was a giant throbbing mass of pain. Then in the next 35 minutes my face swelled up to twice it's size, and I couldn't open or close my mouth. Like, my cheeks on the inside had swollen between all my teeth. Then I lost the ability to swallow (har har again) and the bloody spit that I tried to swallow only came back out my mouth. Things then got even worse. The swelling moved down my throat, and breathing started being a lot harder than I used to remember it. Then it was pretty obviousthat something had gone wrong, I couldn't even take my pills. I had never felt such discomfort since the time one of my friends dared me to go into a gay bar and use the restroom facilities. Ugh.
An hour later it hadn't gotten any worse, and I had figured out how to take my pills by pushing them with my finger all the way to the back of my throat, which is a lot harder than it sounds. I took 2 tylenol 3's, which was enough for me to be able to deal with the pain eenough to sleep.
I woke up this morning feeling a ton better than last night, and I look into the mirror and open my mouth, and th einside was all covered in huge cuts, apparently from being frozen and not knowing when I was chewing the inside of my mouth all to shits.
I'm glad I dodn't have to do this shit eever again. Having a string of bloody drool going from my mouth to a McDonald's cup isn't my idea of fun.
When I woke up from the anesthetic in what seemed like minutes later, I felt really dizzy and said I couldn't feel my mouth. The nurse said "that's cause we cut off your hands" or something like that. Har har. I was drooling into a plate and she asked me to rinse my mouth out. As you could imagine, it was quite difficult considering I couldn't even feel where my mouth was. The first time I tried it, the water ran straight down my face. It must have been hilarious to anyone watching, but (un)fortunately no one was in the room.
I went home, watched TV for a bit, everything seemed fine, it was just swollen and painful, but not too bad...then suddenly everything started going to shit. It started to hurt a LOT, and I didn't know that it would hurt this much but it felt like the inside of my mouth was a giant throbbing mass of pain. Then in the next 35 minutes my face swelled up to twice it's size, and I couldn't open or close my mouth. Like, my cheeks on the inside had swollen between all my teeth. Then I lost the ability to swallow (har har again) and the bloody spit that I tried to swallow only came back out my mouth. Things then got even worse. The swelling moved down my throat, and breathing started being a lot harder than I used to remember it. Then it was pretty obviousthat something had gone wrong, I couldn't even take my pills. I had never felt such discomfort since the time one of my friends dared me to go into a gay bar and use the restroom facilities. Ugh.
An hour later it hadn't gotten any worse, and I had figured out how to take my pills by pushing them with my finger all the way to the back of my throat, which is a lot harder than it sounds. I took 2 tylenol 3's, which was enough for me to be able to deal with the pain eenough to sleep.
I woke up this morning feeling a ton better than last night, and I look into the mirror and open my mouth, and th einside was all covered in huge cuts, apparently from being frozen and not knowing when I was chewing the inside of my mouth all to shits.
I'm glad I dodn't have to do this shit eever again. Having a string of bloody drool going from my mouth to a McDonald's cup isn't my idea of fun.
posted by MiKE at
11:02 AM
