Alright so last friday I decided it was time that I had the rest of my wisdom teeth taken out. I had two taken out in a study a while ago, but I still had two left. Well I was terrified. I don’t know if any of you know much about my strange phobia, but I have a terrible phobia of needles and obviously they need to use needles at some point in the process of getting my teeth pulled. I went to the dentist and i dragged Tyler along because I did not want to do it alone. We sat and chatted with the dentist for a while and then he said alright let’s walk you back to the operating room, I looked over at Tyler wide eyed. He asked if he could come back and hold my hand while they did the shots and they said no! I then was even more scared and upset than before. Eek! Well anyhow, I went back and made it thought it…. and I would have to say the worst part of it was the shots. Oh but what was funny was they gave me a little bit of laughing gas and I had to tell them to turn it off because I thought I was going to pass out. It wasn’t good. They turned it off and pulled the teeth and I was outta there!
I thought everything went a lot quicker than it was going to, and really, Tyler said I was in and out in 13 mins! Crazy. As I left the office something was terribly wrong. My eye was numb! I could see out of it, but all the area around my eye was numb and then I couldn’t move it. I would look one way and my left eye would follow but my right eye just didn’t want to move! It had to have been the strangest thing I have ever experienced. It took three hours to finally be able to move it.
On the bright side… I am healing great and there is still a little pain, but overall I’m doing excellent and I can see out of my eye! (Sorry, the picture doesn’t do it justice… I looked pretty stupid. )
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That is really awful. I’m glad that it didn’t last too long. I read your post to Randy and he said if you had gone to him he would have let Tyler go with you and hold your hand if it would have made you feel better. He always tells his kid patients that if they close their eyes they wouldn’t feel anything. You should try that the next time you go to the dentist.
oh yuck I hated that experience and I am sorry you had to do it twice!!
haha!! I loved this story. I am glad you survived. Personally I LOVE the happy gas.
I hate going to the dentist! I’m glad that you’re almost healed and your eye is okay.
I can just imagine you with one lazy eye and a swollen cheek!
hehe
I’m glad its over for you tho. No more wisdom teeth! Yay!
oh boy
you are not alone! i see patients like you every day! i used to be terrified of needles, but now that i deal with them on a daily basis, it’s no problem! you just need a doctgor that is really good with anesthetic and goes really slow. that sucks that tyler couldn’t be in there with you, that makes it so much worse. wish i could have been there assisting you- oral surgery is my favorite! glad you are doing well!
there’s this picture I took of myself right after I got my wisdom teeth out…but I don’t show it to anybody because it is seriously the UGLIEST picture of me EVER taken. You don’t even look bad…just a little special