Work didn’t last long yesterday. Without the ability to speak at length, I did all the paperwork available to me and left after a few hours. I crashed on the couch when I got home and awoke to the most painful headache, neckache, toothache, everything-above-the-shoulders ache that I spent the next two hours hurling the contents of my stomach into the toilet. I hightailed it back to the dentist to find out what the hell was going on with my body. Two dry sockets developed on the lower rack of teeth, the infection was spreading, and I was nicely situated in the sixth ring of hell.
But lo, the kind doctor packed my gum holes with a stinky medicated gauze that immediately soothed some of my pain and wrote up a prescription for painkillers that don’t make me nauseuous, an antibiotic that doesn’t make me nauseous, and anti-nausea pills just in case. Now I’m back in the first circle of hell where I belong.
1) The National – Apartment Story
2) 7 Year Bitch – 2nd Hand
3) Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
4) Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
5) Simian Mobile Disco – Wooden
6) Velvet Undeground – Venus in Furs
7) Gogol Bordello – God-Like
8) The Cramps – Tear It Up
9) Theoretical Girls – Lovin’ In The Red
10) The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Jens Lekman has a new CD out. Keep an eye out for free mp3 previews here, but download some other tunes while you wait.
OMG.
Shit, it did happen!
I am so sorry to hear about the dry sockets. That was always my biggest fear when I had my wisdom teeth out.
How have the two up top healed?
Remember no sucking whatsoever! Just keep your mouth open a bit!
I hope you get feeling better quickly!
The first time I had oral surgery as an adult, the doc gave me some codine for the pain. A half-hour after I took the first one, the pain in my gut was worse than the pain in my jaw–turns out I’m allergic to codine. Ack.
Dry sockets = not fun. Here’s hoping for a quick recovery and lotsa rest.
Nothing like waking up in a warm puddle of Percocet-drool!
1. Carolan’s Concerto by The Chieftains
2. An Eye for an Empty Heart by Holly Golightly
3. Elizabeth Dreams by Status Quo
4. Round & Round by New Order
5. Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae by Stiff Little Fingers
6. Flowers by Cibo Matto
7. Rendezvous by The Buzzcocks
8. What It Is? by The Undisputed Truth
9. Poor Boy by R.L. Burnside
10. From the Beginning by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
When I go in for my wisdom tooth extraction in a few months, I’m asking for the oxycodone, baby.
Oh no. Dry sockets is the worst, and it seems that no matter what you do, you just might get it. My dentist told me as much- they can’t really tell for sure why some people get it and others don’t. I remember it being an interesting pain, though (as far as these things go), like a high singing zing all through my jaw and somewhere in my ear. Something about the nerve in the bone being exposed to air. I don’t want to think too much about that.
I sang myself to sleep that night, and stole some of my mother’s pain medication before I went back to the orthodontist to have said pinkish sticky gauze stuffed into my mouth holes.
Get better soon and here’s to a less drooly future for you.
Now I’m back in the first circle of hell where I belong. Even when you’re miserable, you crack me up.
Also, at first I thought the title referenced “dry socks.” On re-read, “sockets” clearly makes much more sense.
Sorry you’re still dealing with this crap.
I hope you feel better soon. The bottom ones are the worst!
I was soooo afraid of dry socket when I got my teeth out, and I never got any real painkillers so I was chugging the Aleve. And I couldn’t keep my tongue out of the gouges in my gums. They were so creepy.
It’s catching – I have a dental issue as well.
Know that the pain you are feeling (or not feeling – Percocets yay!) is shared by a stranger in another state.
Hope you’re feeling better today – I share everyone’s horror of dry sockets and miserable dental pain. And hope this isn’t going to be a fiscal disaster on top of all the misery!
UGH.
I’m with you, just had an extraction/excavation/bone graft on Friday. Right now I can’t write for spit (or spit at all, not that I do very often) and am having metaphorical, vague, unfocused blogging apnea (kinda sorta, you know what I mean…?). The hardest part is not futzing with the stitches. >.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed, I stayed up all night before my surgery, so when I got back home from the appointment I crashed big time. All the sleep gave the wounds time to heal. Plus, I didn’t have to worry about wanting to smoke or eat or whatever while I was out of it. Woke up with no problems. To this day I ask myself, “What can be so bad about getting your wisdom teeth removed?”
Then I meet some poor bastard like Lauren…
What can be bad? Let me tell a story about a 18 year old guy who had to get his two lower wisdom teeth removed, since they were growing sideways. One of them was removed without problems, and everything was fine. The other one, on the other hand, had to be broken into small pieces, and the anaesthetics didn’t work. Something the dentists didn’t believe until they started drilling into my lower jaw, and saw my reaction. The removal of the teeth took over 4 hours, and to this day (14 years later) my brain refuses to focus on how much pain there were.
I was lucky that I healed fast and without incidents, unlike our poor host.
Get well fast Lauren.