am now sporting four holes inside my mouth. had four wisdom extracts in one sitting — total extraction time was only 15 minutes(!). didn’t know it could go so fast. about the only painful moments were the local anethesia shots. six(?) instances where i can feel the length of the needle sliding into my gums. good times. jaw is currently SORE. sore from the surgery (oh so lovely to have someone push down on yer lower mandible cuz he can’t seem to dig out a tooth). sore cuz i think i’m biting down too hard on the gauze at the moment. or maybe (oh shit) the anethesia is wearing off. swallowed my precious codeine pill already. hope it can hold off the inevitable pain.
while sitting around waiting for the doc to get around to me, found out that the patient before me was sedated. which led me to conclude, after much mulling about my “medical” history, that i’d rather get the pain than get knocked out. pain sucks but, imo, sucks less than nausea. pain is my anchor and, unlike anything else, seriously pushes my boundaries and self-control.