Comments on: If Momma ain’t happy, ain’t no one happy — now pass the booze

By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:43:58 +0000

It’s unfortunate you can’t just skip the V and get schmammered until it all goes away. That’s what I did when I burnt my hand trying to make beef tenderloin.

Want to hear my story? So I had two teeth up in my sinuses, so oral surgeon goes in there and puts little brackets on them to attach to my braces to pull them out of my gums. Unpleasant, but not all together miserable. I just remember being really hungry because I was on soft foods and in the middle of a growth spurt.

Friday a few days later (I remember because we had a football game) I get this god awful pain and it finally crescendos (band humor) as I’m having my hair braided for our performance. The button has pulled itself out of my gum and I just had to cut if off with a pair of scissors from my band directors office and go on as scheduled. I thought I was going to pass out.

So guess who gets to have surgery again 5 days after her last one? So during the second one, oral surgeon sends me over across the street to my orthodontist because he has more experience gluing things. So I go over there, get the second torture device placed on the tooth in my gum and go back across the street and get sewn up again. Awful. Oh, and when the blasted tooth did break through it was at the very top of my gum and I looked like I had a fang for a month. Very embarrassing for a 16 year old.

My wisdom teeth four years later were a piece of cake comparatively.

By: Elizabeth A.

Elizabeth A. — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:32:11 +0000

Do not stick rubbing alcohol in your mouth. Grain alcohol on the other hand…

By: Hannah

Hannah — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:47:24 +0000

I won’t tell you about my experiences of an extraction and lack of anathasetic :(

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:23:27 +0000

Ugh. Isn’t that a weird stinging feeling when it starts to numb it? I did forget, though, that the relief is very temporary.

I had to laugh when you said Monday was a long time coming, because just yesterday I was thinking that this pain is seriously making me live in the moment. My only thoughts are about the throbbing in my mouth.

I’m not thinking about yesterday or tomorrow. Just. Right. Now!

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:21:55 +0000

Thanks sanjay. Again, I am so thankful for medical coverage and prescription coverage. Although I think I could have been just as thankful without this experience.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:21:06 +0000

Yeah, it does suck it. I swear I don’t remember the dentist mentioning the words dry socket before I pulled that sucker. Although, I’m sure I’d still have him pull it out.

Both are bad choices. But I have a blog to bitch and moan about it, so that’s a good thing right there, no? Plus I do not have to sleep sitting upright. I’m extremely thankful for that.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:19:07 +0000

Thanks Buf. As of Wednesday morning it still hurts, but I think is a teeny bit better. I still wish it would go away.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:18:53 +0000

Man Staci. Owww. CH!

Damn — dry socket AND kidney stones?! Nothin’ good comes from dry stuff — dry heaves, dry humping, dry socket, sun-dried tomatoes. They’re all bad.

I have no more words for you. Well just one more — OWWWW!

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:17:25 +0000

Yes! I will listen to those tunes and swim in booze. That sounds like a good idea.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:16:56 +0000

Yes, I’d agree with that. I want to grind that stick into the ground until it’s dust that floats away on a puff of air.

Thanks for the kind vibes, Kathy. Now can you make healing time pass at the speed of light?