Twice Mice

To celebrate the end of my career as an immunologist, I elected to have all four wisdom teeth wrenched from my jaw under local aesthetic the following day. At first, Adrian was in the waiting room while I had my x-rays and Novocain injections. These didn’t go so well, as I was very nervous and my gag reflex was at full strength. So they called Adrian in, and he held both of my hands through the rest of the procedure. The dentist said that I was so calm after Adrian came in that the actual extraction procedure took only 15 minutes rather than 60. I was so numb during this time, and I knew that I had Adrian by my side, that it really wasn’t that bad. The dentist was so proud of his procedure that he kept on making poor Adrian look inside my mouth to admire how small the incisions were.

The bad part came a couple of hours later after the Novocain wore off. I was in a lot of pain and very irritable. Even two days later I am still counting down the 4-6 hours between Vicodin tablets. Sometimes I make it to six hours, usually only to four hours, but the pain and the swelling are quite severe. All I can eat is pudding and Jell-O. I am glad that I had two and a half days to sleep and rest, but I cannot wait until I am all healed. I am also thankful that it is generally a once-in-a-lifetime procedure.

Still, San Francisco and Hawaii soon, and then off to sunny Australia.

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