I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled today. What can I say, it sucked. The surgery itself went fine, much like my hernia operation – they put me under and I don’t remember a thing until after they’d finished. On the car ride home the novicaine started to wear off and by the time I was back in my house I was in a lot of pain, but they gave me excellent pain killers (percocet) which really take the edge off. The only problem is they seem to last for about 3 hours and I can only take one every 4 hours so my day went like this: take painkiller, fall into pleasant dreamy sleep. Wake up 2-3 hours later with a gradually increasing throbbing pain in my jaw, watch clock anxiously until I can take a pill again, rinse, repeat 😉

The only other issue is the amount of bleeding, it’s pretty intense. I don’t want to dwell on it so I’ll move right along.

I saved the teeth and now know why I was getting recurring infections the last six months or so. One of the teeth had a cavity in it you could almost fit a bb into. My hunch is that this cavity was up under my gums (my gums were partially covering my wisdom teeth) and this is the source of the infectious material that was causing me so much grief.

All in all I’m relieved, it hasn’t been as bad as I thought it would be. I’ll post some pictures of the teeth for the curious, and Becky took a before (normal dave) and after (chipmunk cheek dave) photo so maybe I’ll post those as well. Now it’s back to obesessively watching the clock; 27 minutes till I can take another pill.