Yours truly, smiling as big as possible.
(Note the janky wisdom tooth on the bottom right!)
It’s kinda Christmas Eve-y to me today. Why? Because tomorrow I get to go to the oral surgeon and have all four of my wisdom teeth pulled out!
Granted, most people don’t get excited by this prospect, but tomorrow will see me living out a life-long dream of mine: to be put under general anesthesia.
Ever since I was a kid, I thought it was so cool and mysterious that one could be knocked completely unconscious, and longed for the experience. Sadly, and to my continual chagrin, I have lived my life with no real medical emergencies whatsoever. I got my first cavity this year, I’ve never broken a bone – nothing. I did once get appendicitis, but – and to the astonishment of my physician – I somehow “got better” before I got a chance to be cut open.
(I did once cut into my thigh with a chainsaw, but I just put a bandage on it and popped some dog tranquilizers my brother-in-law had on hand.)
So, while I am a little nervous about spending the money to have this procedure done, the actual operation itself is pretty thrilling. Just think – tomorrow, at a little after ten o’clock, my consciousness will be disappeared, and then, about an hour later, I will return, like Lazarus from the grave; a grave with cheap wallpaper, fluorescent lighting and awful smooth jazz piped in, but a resurrection nonetheless!
I will be returning to you tomorrow, post-operation, to blog about the experience. Stay tuned!
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I thought you forgave me for that! I told you it would relax you. I just didn't know it would take 3 days to wear-off. I certainly had never used them before! I guess I should have disclosed the canine connection beforehand. But I did offer to stitch you up!
Just watching that animation of the tooth being pulled out gives me the willies. OUCH! While under the anesthesia, did you see any dolphins?
i love your blog. this was one of my favorites