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JackN
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Just a note to anyone who is curious. I had surgery yesterday to remove a lump from my neck (between the throat and skin). Went well, and I am home relaxing, trying not to sweat from the heat too much.
Was an interesting thing to watch them work on me through the reflection of the chrome on the surgery light fixture.
My wife would have hurled as soon as they cut the skin. :D
Anyway, I have a specialist visit in Nashville on Friday, after which maybe life will return to some normal state for a bit.
So if y'all been the least bit curious where I've been, it's been due to this and work that's kept me off the grid mostly.
;)
Cheers!
Was an interesting thing to watch them work on me through the reflection of the chrome on the surgery light fixture.
My wife would have hurled as soon as they cut the skin. :D
Anyway, I have a specialist visit in Nashville on Friday, after which maybe life will return to some normal state for a bit.
So if y'all been the least bit curious where I've been, it's been due to this and work that's kept me off the grid mostly.
;)
Cheers!
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Worf
Good to hear it's going OK so far.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
[B]My wife would have hurled as soon as they cut the skin. :D[/B][/QUOTE]
I would have been unconcious by then. I once fainted after getting a vaccination shot. I insisted on general anaesthetic when I got my wisdom teeth out, and still had to be given premeds to keep me calm before hand.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
[B]Just a note to anyone who is curious. I had surgery yesterday to remove a lump from my neck (between the throat and skin). Went well, and I am home relaxing, trying not to sweat from the heat too much.
Cheers! [/B][/QUOTE]
Hope everything is ok.
but seeing flesh cut and torn and blood...
UGH. Nope. can't do that. :)
drilling through the nerve was fun, but otherwise... :D
(Then again, worst thing thats ever happened to me is a dog bite that took 6 stiches)
1 grew in correctly
1 was impacted
the other 2 grew in at an angle and started to push the others.
the 3 were pulled while I was under.
They asked me to count backwards from 10. I think I got to 9, and woke up asking them when they were going to start the op...
:D
My wife wasn't too comfortable with how I looked right afterwards in the wheel chair because it reminded here of her father who had a stroke and passed on a year later.
I STRONGLY suggest going under, as I don't think I could handle the dentist straddling me in the chair with pliers to break the teeth while I was awake...
:D
[B]They asked me to count backwards from 10. I think I got to 9, and woke up asking them when they were going to start the op...[/B][/QUOTE]
I didn't even get that far. In fact, thanks to the premeds (which as well as removing anxiety also help remove short term memory) I don't even remember going into the operating room. My memory gets as far as being wheeled out of the changing room into the corridor to the operating room. :p
[url]http://sinoemedicalassociation.org/orthopedicsurgery/traumasurgery/07102340.jpg[/url]
Thats what i had done to my arm a few years back, only the incision was both on that side, PLUS the other side of my arm, and on the top of my palm as well. i would have loved to have watched, however, i had to be given a general, and was delerious from pain anyway... they did video tape it, but i was never able to get a copy of the video.
and before you ask why i had such a thing done...
[url]http://sinoemedicalassociation.org/orthopedicsurgery/traumasurgery/id19.htm[/url]
When I woke up I was in a hospital bed took me about 2 weeks to relearn how to walk and it was painful. THE MORPHINE WAS GREAT THOUGH! HAHA
No but really great news Jack, hope you stay healthy.
Anyhoo, I'll probably have to get my wisdom teeth removed as well later this year... I have 2 in the upper back row. Or whatever it is that you call it. :D From what I gather, it's done with local anesthetics at the place I'll probably get it done. She's a good doc. Here's hoping it won't be that big a thing.
I've only had one surgery in my life (hoping that there'll ne'er be a need for a second.) and I've only been put under once, at the same 'event'. Very interesting experience indeed...
They put an iv in my left arm, and when they were about to begin, the nurse said that she was going to hit in the painkillers... don't know exactly what they use here, but I can sure as hell understand junkies a lot better now. I was pretty much like "Hmm... I don't feel anything at a.... woooow!" Felt like falling backwards through the table, all a blur. I was really getting into it and enjoying the sensation. :D Unfortunately, the next thing she said was that "I'll start the sleepers now" and the next thing I remember was waking up after the op. Dang!
[B]Hope you're okay, Jack. With your latest thread 'n all... :confused:
[/B][/QUOTE]
Not to worry, didn't spread, and I'm in the 85-95% recovery zone. I just have to keep an eye on it every year.
$#!+, I could get hit by a car tomorrow and make all the anxiety a moot point...
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Sanfam [/i]
[B]I know for a fact that I need four wisdom teeth yanked, and now quite likely a major filling or a cap in my decaying left-side molar. [/B][/QUOTE]
I had all four removed in one shot. I thought it might be wiser to do maybe two at a time but the doctor said why would you bother going through this hassle twice? Just get it over with and he was right. The only thing is I was told how I would be all tired and woozy after the surgery and would want to take a few days of work afterwards. None of that happened. I only had local anesthesia and they gave me some pill to supposedly relax and sort of knock me out. I was totally alert (but numb) and awake during the surgery and other than the feeling of of having a massive cotton ball in my mouth afterwards I was totally fine. Next day I went back to work like nothing. Turned out to be far from a therrible experience I imagined it would.
[B]The only thing is I was told how I would be all tired and woozy after the surgery and would want to take a few days of work afterwards. None of that happened.[/B][/QUOTE]
That generally only happens with general anaesthetic. Boy did I have a fun week after my four were taken out...
However, I, too, found it was not the hellish painful experience I was expecting it to be. I thought I'd be in massive pain for a week. As it turns out, I wasn't in much pain at first due to the hangover from the anaesthetic and the painkillers I was given, and after a couple of days there wasn't much pain anyway. I credit much of the lack of swelling and pain later on to good care provided by my father, who stayed home for the first two days and provided regular ice packs.
I have no intention of not getting them fixed :P
I just need for the funds to be in the right place at the right time. I've managed to hold off the wisdom teeth ruining my mouth with careful maintenance, but...eh. They need to be yanked.
I would have borrowed money to do it, but I dont know how expensive it is in the states. I had a root filling, and a tooth fixed for about $800
In a perfect world, i think i'd like to have them all removed and replaced with implants, but, who's got that kind of money? i sure dont.
maybe i could have them replaced with blood red fangs, ooo that could be fun.
Oh yah, cuz of the whole going under I wasn't allowed to eat for like 12 hours before the operation. You try doing THAT to a baby!
[B]...that and a couple dentists i've gone to just making me feel generally shitty about myself for them being bad.[/B][/QUOTE]
Heh, yeah I've went to a few dentist like that, then they wonder why I don't return and have found a new dentist...
If given the chance I tell them straight out...
Pisses me off when they assume you are a delinquent concerning your teeth just because their are issues with them that they weren't present to pass judgment over...
I do what I can when I can, and when I can afford it.
;)