I may never be completely whole…

…but, nevertheless, about one week after my wisdom teeth extraction I am beginning to feel like a human being again. I may still be popping ibuprofen like candy, and I may not be able to open my mouth all the way yet, but at least I have lost the permanent puffy-cheeked grimace and I can eat (with real chewing! On my teeth!).

Going to work on Monday night was an interesting affair. They stuck me in the back of the store, where I was likely to interact with the fewest customers. But I got the distinct impression that each customer was a little unnerved by the fact that I, you know, couldn’t really open my mouth very wide, and I had to lean a bit closer than usual so they could hear me, and whenever I did pry my lips open to speak from between my puffy cheeks it looked more like I was going to hurl a spit ball on them than help them find whatever they were looking for.

At any rate, most of that is behind me now. Now I just have to deal with the fact that I have four large holes sitting in the back of my mouth. And, actually, so far that has been not too fun… (Squeamish people may want to skip this part.) Today was the sixth day after the surgery, which is the day that they say you are supposed to “cleanse your sockets” or something like that. They gave me this little squirty syringe that I was supposed to fill with water and use to rinse out the cavities where my wisdom teeth used to be. “Sure, no problem!” I thought. But I was not prepared for the dried blood and little bits of food that had crept up in those sockets to come dribbling out of my mouth. And the taste… Ughlghaghblarghshivergross. I almost had another dental panic attack.

I tried to explain my fear of the sockets to my parents at dinner tonight, as I sat there simultaneously being thrilled to be eating real food and at the same time terrified of getting bits of it stuck up in those darned holes.

“Dad,” I finally said, with a hint of desperation in my voice, “I feel like maggots might come boiling out of those holes at any moment.”

He just raised his eyebrows and said “Well, you can feel that way if you want to.”

Sigh.

(Squeamish people come back now.)

Okay. No more wisdom teeth (or lack thereof) stories, I promise. Well, I mean, I guess I shouldn’t promise, because who knows what kind of interesting blog-worthy complications might come up, but I’m fairly darn sure that I won’t have any more posts on this subject. So there.

Also… if you all have not been following my Flickr photos already, it is never too late to start! I am currently slowly but surely working my way through this summers’ photos and putting them online in a set called Oregon Summer 2006. Go check it out to see some of what I’ve been up to.

Also… it appears that Canon has just released an upgraded, super-duper gotta-have replacement for my camera. I cannot say that I am overly thrilled by this news, since I purchased my Rebel XT a mere two months ago, but I figured you all would want to know. (Don’t worry, camera, I still love you!!)

Posted on Thursday, August 24th, 2006 at 1:42 am.
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