This is my blog on drugs
Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 @ 04:54 PM
Don't worry Jay, you can keep reading. All is well.
I got my wisdom tooth removed this morning, and since then time has flown by relatively quickly. I find my own drowsiness and appearance incredibly amusing, and so have been in good humor ever since my mom helped me up the stairs and propped me up in bed. I feel lucky to have something as wonderous as the internet to keep me company until my sister gets back from Augusta tomorrow to take care of me. She promises to bring lots of movies and help me begin packing for school, even if it means me pointing at things and she putting them in boxes by herself. My mom takes good care of me, but sometimes she forgets that I've sent her downstairs to the kitchen for a reason, and will begin doing laundry or talking on the phone as if I'd never asked for a bowl of ice cream. However, she promised to go out and get me some broccoli cheese soup for dinner. I love soup.
There's very little pain, and I'm not even on the super-duper painkillers, since they make me nauseous—mostly my jaw muscles feel sort of tight, like when the novacaine has worn off at the dentist's and you can tell where they injected the anaesthesia. The worst part about the whole experience is having to taste blood for so long, which they give you plenty of gauze for. I think my extraction was especially easy, despite the tooth's awkward position, because it had just begun to grow roots. Had it been more developed (with deeper roots), it might have been more difficult procedure (there's your incentive, Jay).
It sucks to be knocked out for a few days, but I'm feeling pretty well and expect to be fine late tomorrow. At least for now I have an excuse to watch movies and read as much as I want (and it's even my favorite weather for being stuck in bed—it's raining steadily). I'm missing five parties that I've been invited to tonight and tomorrow night, mostly of the birthday/going away to college/moving out of town variety, and if I'm feeling well enough to attend any of them I'll probably end up at my parents' going away party tomorrow night, where they've requested a lengthy slideshow of my summer photography.
I'm beginning to drift back to sleep between paragraphs, so I think I should be going. If you feel like dropping by with a chocolate milkshake, give me a call.
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i am very glad to hear things went well for you. and going down to college with a unused bottle of painkillers will make you very popular. i'm kidding...but not really. i've just known a few people who have held off on taking their drugs just so they could have some ambien or vicodin later on.
and, yes, i shall consider that incentive to go get things checked out.
11 Aug 2006, 7:48 PM.
I'm glad things went well!
My mom does that. She'll go in the kitchen and all of a sudden forget what she went to do and end up in a total other part of the house! It's like "hello, mom" and she isn't even blonde.
12 Aug 2006, 12:41 AM.