They were yanked yesterday. They would not give me my teeth. They said other people didn't get their teeth and that they were infected anyway. I tried to say that I wasn't planning on putting them back in. Tim had to excuse me and say "Sorry, she get's really surly after surgery."
And I was still waking up so I couldn't argue. But he's right. I am surly. Is that my true nature? One of bitchiness in which I expect my every demand to be fullfilled? I am probably a nightmare patient. Well crap I have been in the hospital enough times over my life and you gotta be assertive in order to get what you need.
Sigh. Last night sucked. I only managed a pudding but threw it up later along with a everything else I had to drink for the day. This morning the mouth hurts. I took pills and now I am sleepy and thinking I should take a mid morning nap. Even though I have only been up for an hour and a half. The more sleep you get the faster you heal right? Yeah...a nap wouldn't hurt. Can someone tell me why when I am sick though the damn dog want's to hog the couch? He doens't want it any other time. That fucker.
posted by hadjare @ 9:13 AM
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I can't believe those bastards wouldn't let you keep them. I didn't keep mine but I didn't even think to ask. Wisdom teeth are so gnarly and wicked looking. You could have worn them on a necklace and pretended they were magical. The oral surgeon probably uses them for voodoo.
-Hilary
I think you might be sick because of the anaesthetic they have given you. This could last for about a day. I remember I told them I wanted my teeth too, but they said they couldnt let me have them. Try not to rinse out your mouth too much because you can get dry socket which my friend had and he said it hurts to have, but I never had it.
Pat
I know! I was totally robbed. I bet they are going to use them for some kind of ritual or sell them to voodoo people on the black market. So unfair.
Also I threw up because I was naughty and tried to sneak and extra aspirin in. I guess that taught me something. What? I am already forgetting. ;)
i don't think you're as surly a patient as you think you are - take my younger brother, for example. he's a real straigh-shooter, the good son of the family, a responsible father figure and all. yet, when he got his wisdom teeth taken out, he was by all accounts a fuckin' nightmare - i guess he actually shoved away a nurse who tried to help him get out of the wheelchair they make you ride in as far as the front door! and then, when he got home and took a nap, the doctor called his wife to see how he was doing, because they were worried he was having a reaction to the anaestetic - so he wakes up and hears her talking and starts screaming his head off. "Who are you talking to? ARE YOU SPYING ON ME?! ARRGGHH!" and i guess he was even using swears, too, which he seldom does.
so i don't think your experience was that bad. besides, when i had my wisdom teeth out, i got an infection and was paranoid that my entire jaw was going to have to be removed and i'd be a hideous freak who would have to run away and live in the sewers - where it would probably be difficult to find food you could eat without a lower mandible, unless you count drinking sludge water. and i'd have to, because what else are you going to do?
this was phil, of course.
Hey, it's a major surgery...anyone should be surly afterward. Dave was this combination of surly and entirely lacking in solid opinions of his own, so I'd have to make suggestions on food and how he should care for his mouth and I'd get shot down repeatedly. I felt like a very bad wife for a few days.
Phil, that was hilarious. :-)
-Sarah
Indian Health Service let me keep my teeth. IHS is cool.
Indian Health Service let me keep my teeth. IHS is cool.
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