As of today I am four teeth less wise. The surgery went well and now I'm left with a painful jaw, some holes in my mouth and some bloody teeth and teeth fragments. Yes, they gave me the actual teeth. I don't know what I'm supposed to do with them.
I was nervous about the procedure and I told the surgeon this when he asked how I was doing when he put the IV needle in my arm. He then said that they're giving me medicine to fix that. Moments later I felt calm and good. I hadn't a care in the world. I didn't care that there was a needle in my arm, my teeth were going to be cut and yanked out and that I had electrodes on my body. Nope, I just felt nice. I remember wanting to ask a question during this nice peaceful time while I was still awake, but I couldn't make my body actually form words and ask the question, I could just think about it on another plane. It was a weird experience
The next thing I remembered was two nurses walking me to another room to lie down. I don't remember actually waking up. For some time afterwards and still to some extent right now I felt kind of out of it both physically and mentally. It felt like my whole body was tired and I couldn't wake it up. Most of what I said was probably very stupid as well.
My Dad left me in the lobby of the building in a chair and went to get the car. When I got in the car he was putting some change away in the change bin. I then asked him, "did you pay for parking?" For some reason, my mind was thinking on one level that I was actually at the parking lot with him and he forgot to pay, when in reality I was sitting in the lobby.
Right now I'm taking T3s with codeine so I'm still a bit uncoordinated and light headed. The pain is relatively minor, just kind of an aching jaw, but I imagine it would be worse if I stopped the pain killers.
Back to eating soup and jello.
Haha, drugs do the craziest things to your brain. I thought I was leveling up (just like in a video game) when I woke up from surgery and heard the heart rate monitor.
I heard that getting your wisdom teeth yanked out sucks. A friend just got that done last week too. I only ever grew 2 in, and they didn't cause a problem, so I never had to get them pulled. I don't know why you'd wanna keep your wisdom teeth either. Try putting them under your pillow and see if the tooth fairy still gives out $ if you're out of grade school ;)
I remember when I got mine removed. It's not much fun at all, is it? Mine didn't go easily either. Had a "paradoxical" reaction to the anaesthetic and when into tachychardia, got a battery of medical tests. Finally they did it under general. From there on in, things went really easily. I was better just in time to be welcomed back to the world of solid foods by Christmas dinner. Anyways, you'll be better than ever in no time.