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[ravencallscrows]

First off, my apologies to anyone if i were quieter than usual last night at coffee. As some of you know, i was having a significant amount of pain from a broken tooth. Ended up taking medication last night to get to sleep, and i knew the instant it wore off this morning. Ended up taking a trip to the dentist today, and had the tooth extracted- about seventy-five percent of it above the gumline was gone, and there wasn't really much left to save.
I hate going to medical people in general, and most of all dentists- probably dating to an encounter with an oral surgeon at about age seventeen, who stitched the inside of my lip back together after i got a hockey stick in the mouth (word to any kids out there who like hockey and want to play- wear a face shield, even when you're old enough not to have to. Take my word for it- even though shields can be inconvenient, they're more fun than having bits of your mouth stitched back together [even though i do have fond recollections of the surgeon's nurse, because she spent the whole procedure sitting with her lower legs on my shouleder, keeping me from moving my head with her knees. I think her name was Svetlana. *sigh* Ah, to be young again.] Forty-four stitches later, it was all back together, and all that's really visible of it now is a scar inside my lip- although if i shaved my beard, there may still be traces there as well.)

Anyway, a few major doses of ibuprofen and some Vicodan should get me through the next few days reasonably pain-free, if somewhat drugged. Bleh. Not the way i planned to spend Thursday and Friday, but it's better than the pain i was dealing with for the last forty-eight hours.

Comments

[jenblue.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Tooth shit. I'm completely neurotic about my teeth. I'm glad you got it taken care of. :)

And by the way, you looked -damned- good last night. I'd have commented, but then I got distracted by a talkative drunk.

[gwynn-aaron.livejournal.com]

The only time I've ever had a tooth sheered off I was pretty well drunk, so I didn't feel a thing. Even so, I was feeling it for days afterwards, and I had to get up at eight the next morning to head down to the theatre to supervise Musical Theatre majors learning how to do lighting in the catwalks. Oi...

[kingrat]

The nurses in Russia do that? I'm all for importing more Russian nurses then.

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Consider it the low-budget way to immobilize a patient. Especially a seventeen-year-old male.

And it was probably necessary- i got more local anaesthetic today (i think eight shots) than i did then (i seem to recall four), even though this was one tooth and that was the entire length of my lower gumline from the right incisor back to the second left bicuspid- probably three inches or so of sewing.

You and Lindros both

[revseandoe.livejournal.com]

Keep your head up.

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Have i never told you that story? Guy i was chasing attempting to back-check hooked a skate blade in a rut and fell forward- brought his stick straight back and got me with the blade. Knocked my mouthpiece out and ripped my lower lip up. Falling head first on the ice and sliding several metres on my face provided a few more abrasions.

[skyewolf1.livejournal.com]

Awwww :( Ouch! I can sort of relate to the whole dentist hate thing...Jerry needs a support group when ever he goes..Hope it feels better soon...how'd you break it?

*extra hugs*
Skye

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[wingedelf.livejournal.com]

Well, actually several years ago. It and i had an agreement- as long as it didn't hurt, i wouldn't go get it ripped out.
Gives you an idea how damn badly it hurt.

[skyewolf1.livejournal.com]

Damn. you really *are* just like my husband...it's scary ;)

[inanna.livejournal.com]

*hug*

i love you honey. You did so well! *hug*

Thanks for going with so little protest.

*hug*