L'hopital rule, part 4: surgery

[wjl]

Continuing again the chronicle of my Memorial Day weekend hospitalization, i bring you the shocking climax!  As before, this post describes events in the past, and all the pain, swelling, suffering, and general horribleness is, for the moment, behind me, caused though it was by a rogue wisdom tooth i still possess, a fact soon to be rectified.

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[lindseykuper]

Thanks again for writing this! So the surgery was just to drain out the nastiness, and not to actually do anything about your wisdom tooth as such?

[wjl]

That's right.. One problem at a time, I guess? Also, I couldn't open my mouth more than about an inch at this point, so complicated tooth extraction was sort of impossible..

I definitely remember wishing that they could just take the tooth out while I'm admitted and be done with the whole episode.. But it was not to be!

[gregh1983]

Just wanted to say that I've been reading all your hospital posts, and they're very interesting! And probably useful for the inevitable time that I draw 0/0 or ∞/∞ myself. So thanks for writing them :-)

a Russian lady having a rapid and unintelligible conversation, but one which i could clearly understand as being fluent Russian

This has happened to me before with Italian and Japanese -- or, at least dream-Italian and dream-Japanese, since I certainly don't know enough of either one to make up sentences, let alone paragraphs. Language dreams are some of the best!

[wjl]

Glad you're enjoying them.. Thanks for saying so!

It's neat how our brains can manufacture phonetically plausible snippets of languages we don't actually comprehend.. and also how much harder it is to do consciously!