During the operation itself I spent some time with my eyes shut, because even if it's really interesting what he's doing back there, one doesn't always want to see the tube full of blood and gore that the nurse is sucking away from your mouth.
And that is exactly why I insisted on general anasthetic when I had all four wisdom teeth taken out in one hit two years ago.
And I was wimp enough to insist on full sedation when I had a tooth taken out last week...
Um, yeah. That, and the story I heard from a friend of mine that his teeth had to be compacted and broken with a pair of pliers and pulled out in little pieces because they wouldn't come out.
That's actually interesting comments about gay guys. I don't know if it's a defense mechanism as such; I think, to a certain extent, we all act the way that we're "supposed" to act to fit in with our perceptions of ourselves. I think most people, at least until they develop their own mature personality (which some folks never do), tend to subconsciously choose a template of the kind of person they 'want to be', and then try to emulate that template. Just observe a bunch of Goths, or artists, or jocks, or... choose any subculture that you want, and you'll see that when they're with a group of like-minded people most folks tend to act even MORE stereotypically like the type of person they see themselves as; positive reinforcement and a desire to fit in, I guess, even though most people probably fool themselves that they're just "being themselves" while around friends
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Actually, yes, you're right. It's almost certainly the 'trying to belong' thing. I just felt that possibly also it's a 'try to make you feel better about me' thing. Maybe.
I'll bring my camera, but I've misplaced the cable, so uploading pics will be hard work unless I either find it when I get back home or buy a new one, but, well, pics can exist in a metaphorical sense.
And Now For My Story: Trauma WithintwintailmadbSeptember 28 2006, 15:50:14 UTC
I told you that you'd be fine.
So when I had my wisdom teeth taken out (three of them, I never had a forth) the upper two were totally normal. Pretty much picture-perfect, but my mouth was too small for them.
Then there was the lower right tooth. It had rotated 90degrees with the roots facing in toward the tongue and the crown out toward the cheek. It was happily growing in such a way that if left in it would sever the nerve in the right side of my jaw. Worst of all? There was no happy little hole for them to go into in order to pull it out.
So I go in, the painkillers didn't work well on me (they kept re-sticking me every time I started to keen), and I find out that they have to break my jaw in order to get to the tooth, then they had to break the tooth itself and pull it out in pieces.
To cut the boring part short: I couldn't have solid food for over a month, and I wasn't allowed hard food like carrots and apples for nine months. It took 27 months for feeling to come back on the right side of my jaw.
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And that is exactly why I insisted on general anasthetic when I had all four wisdom teeth taken out in one hit two years ago.
And I was wimp enough to insist on full sedation when I had a tooth taken out last week...
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Um, yeah. That, and the story I heard from a friend of mine that his teeth had to be compacted and broken with a pair of pliers and pulled out in little pieces because they wouldn't come out.
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I don't know if that happenned to me, but it wouldn't surprise me. Which is another reason why I wanted general anaesthetic...
Something very similar happenned to a friend of mine >_
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Although yes, thou art a blogger...
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I don't know why Im asking, because either way it involves you spending money. So yeah. See you later?
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Now, need to stop worrying about defining atheism, and go catch a train, see you in a bit...
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I will not be in costume, sadly. But!
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So when I had my wisdom teeth taken out (three of them, I never had a forth) the upper two were totally normal. Pretty much picture-perfect, but my mouth was too small for them.
Then there was the lower right tooth. It had rotated 90degrees with the roots facing in toward the tongue and the crown out toward the cheek. It was happily growing in such a way that if left in it would sever the nerve in the right side of my jaw. Worst of all? There was no happy little hole for them to go into in order to pull it out.
So I go in, the painkillers didn't work well on me (they kept re-sticking me every time I started to keen), and I find out that they have to break my jaw in order to get to the tooth, then they had to break the tooth itself and pull it out in pieces.
To cut the boring part short: I couldn't have solid food for over a month, and I wasn't allowed hard food like carrots and apples for nine months. It took 27 months for feeling to come back on the right side of my jaw.
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