such a loong time with no update... sorry.
I didn't even know where to start... May be I should just stat with what happened to me a week ago...
I had sore throat on Thursday night, I think... got a little worse on friday and on saturday, the sore throat is better, but got cough and block nose :S On sunday, all seemed to be better till I ate satay from the group gathering... couldn't resist the temptation, it's been a while since I ate such food... So I had to face the music with more sore throat at night.
On Monday, I decided to go the the doctor, by this time, my sore throat was a little better. No antibiotic needed just some medicide to unclogged the phelm and the "liquid" blocking my ear which caused pain when I swallowed.
I was soooo desperate for the flu and sore throat to go away before or by Thursday. But still had a littel cough on Thurday, nothing serious, but i could say that it's some what recoverd... I was glad for this as Thursday was the "BIG DAY" ....
On april 17 2008 afternoon, I had to say goodbye to 4 of my teeth! Two wisdom teeth which I have never seen before as they have yet erupted... the only pictures I had of them was the X-ray. then my two first premolars. So beautiful and nicely grown they are, yet they had to be extracted to make way for the other teeth when I got my braces T.T
A few minutes before I was called to the "extraction room" I was second guessing myself... Zhi and Ani went with me. I told Ani that i was so scared that i didn't want to do it anymore, lets go home... but I paid the cost alr... Ani and Zhi kept telling me it will be alright.
I was called... made one last trip to the restroom before I sat down at the dentist chair. My blood pressure was taken... the nurse, Pam I think asked me a few questions before he gave me some laughing gas to help me relax. Then, the oral surgeon came. I assured me it will be easy for me... He inserted a needle on my left arm... I could feel the laughing gas worked its was down my body as I felt as light as feather. Then the GA was inserted. The last word I could hear was the nurse telling me that I would see the ceiling swirling ... I looked up, saw the ceiling and the dentist lamp...and then blank!
When I opened my eyes again, I saw Zhi and then Ani with a nurse, explaining to them my after surgery care.... I slept for a little while agian before waking up. I was then told to sit down before Ani and the nurse helped me walk to the car.
At home, I was quite a struggle to eat or drink anything liquid nevermind trying to swallow the medicine when my mouth was numb. The lips to the side of the tongue were soooo numb. Zhi and ani tried to fed me mashed potato (which i only managed to swallow with difficulty twice) and then sprite (for some reason the doctor recommened me to drink sprite or 7-up before I ate anything). I couldn't get much things down my throat with the numbness. But I had to eat my medicine nonetheless.
They had to crush my medicine but it's still so hard to swallow it. Many were left on my tongue... After all the crushed medicine seemed to be swallowed by me. I lied down with my head elevated to get some sleep.... after a few minutes, my stomach felt so uncomfortable. I know I wanted to vomit.... I tried to fight out the nauseous feeling, but unsuccessful. By this time, Ani has gone back to eat lunch and Zhi had a meeting.... I husled my bag for my cellphone to call ani, before I could hit the dial button, the vomit made its way up and I had to rush for the toilet bowl.
thereafter, I called Ani. The nurse left a voicemail on my hp. I asked ani to call her back telling her that i had just vomit. the nurse asked me to take the medication for nausea, but only zhi knew where it was.
Then zhi came back. A few minutes after that, I vomitted again.... that's what you'll get from eating medicine with an empty stomach. Drank the nausea medicine and no more vomitting after that. Phew!!!
the rest of the days was spent lying on the bed, bitting on tea bags, going to the rest room, compressing side of my neck with ice, and drinking the medicine after 4 to 6 hours.
The left side seemed to be more painful and swollen than the right. May be it's more difficult to extract *shrug*
I hope the pain would subside after Saturday at the very latest. I need to get back to studying! And I really hope I won'd get dry socket .
