Surgery Update

Well, I survived the surgery with my gums (mostly) intact. It was a pleasant surprise that it wasn’t as painful as I thought that it would be… at least until the Novocain wore off.

The oral surgeon was nicer than most of my dentists have been. He swabbed the area where he injected Novocain with a topical gel. And then, once he’d given me the Nococain, he waited a few minutes and then gave me another injection to make sure that everything was completely numb. Of course, he did brace his hand on my eyeball while patching me up, so I guess we can call it a wash.

The procedure itself was not as bad as in my worst imaginationings (granted, I have an extremely vivid imagination). It involved quite a few more pieces of bloody gauze than I had anticipated, but I didn’t feel a thing. I won’t go into any more details. Because, well, you know, gross.

When the surgery was done, I was handed two ibuprofen and instructed to avoid strenuous activities and prolonged sun exposure (so much for my plan to spend all day today doing calisthenics in our hammock). I steadfastly maintain that any procedure that involves having bits of you cut out and then sewn onto you elsewhere should really come with some better drugs than ibuprofen. Or more than two ibuprofen.

I’m still in a decent amount of pain (the ibuprofen! she does nothing!) and I was up until about 3am last night, but I think I’m turning a corner. I ate actual food today and I managed to not slobber most of it on myself. I’m glad that I took today off to recuperate and I just might spend a good chunk of the weekend keeping it up. My only regret is that I’ve cleared out a good chunk of what was on the tivo.

Let’s all hope that I feel better tomorrow!