Drink Rum

So... shockingly... more medical drama in my life. This is mostly over I suppose, so that's good.

At the end of last year, I broke two adjacent teeth. One needed a root canal and crown, the other just a filling. I got that done with no real problems. I was then advised that I should get my lower wisdom teeth out. No problem either.

Lies.

The wisdom teeth came out fairly easily. On the scale of one to ten, the left one was a 2 and the right was a 6. Also, apparently I'm damn funny on nitrous oxide.

I ruined a part of jeans because in my drugged out haze, I tried to spit some blood out and basically just dribbled blood into my lap and down my leg. About 20 minutes later, the crimson tide was done and Percocet was taking me to a special place.

Fast forward 24 hrs. My entire left side of my face was in agony. From my chin to my ear. My lymph nodes were swollen, I had a fever, and I was popping narcotics like Pez. I went back to the dentist on day 3. Turns out that I had dry sockets. No blood clot ever formed where my toothy tooth was and instead I had a little bit of exposed bone and a large exposed nerve cluster at the bottom. Solution.... drugs... drugs... lots of drugs.

Fast forward to today, over a month from extraction... I'm almost healed. There is still a small patch of exposed root from the neighboring tooth that hasn't covered over yet. It only hurts when I drink now. As such, I passed out in a director's office during due to dehydration. I drink very little daily... often less than 36oz of total liquid consumption. Room temperature gatorade is the beverage of choice.

The exposed root should be healed over in 1 - 4 weeks.

sigh.

On a positive note, we made an offer to a dude to be my assistant, so it looks like I'll be able to take a breath at the job.