my wisdom tooth

yesterday i went to extract my wisdom tooth.

the experience was surreal. i started panicking the night before and was nervous right up till the minute i sat in the dentist's chair.

afterall, i've not extracted any tooth since a decade ago! and this is my virgin wisdom tooth extraction... heard all sorts of horror stories about it.

anyway the anaesthesia injections were so painful my tears dropped out. had like 3 jabs! 10 seconds each!! can still see the jab wounds on my gums n the roof of my mouth now. sobs.

the extraction itself took only 5 secs! could only feel the dentist twisting something slightly and there it came out..

gawd.. the whole experience was simply frightful and terrorizing! but i'm brave enough this time and i didn't cry or blackout (mainly cos i was in a lying position). considering i fainted and cried countless times during injections in the past.

anyway i told the dentist to keep my tooth for me (the 2 dentists there laughed at me).. was quite traumatized when i saw it. it looked so ugly!! so blackish.

the worst thing was... some of my flesh was stuck on it!! i couldn't believe it. i had to tug at the flesh to clean it off my tooth. yuck. it felt like pulling chicken meat off the bone. couldn't believe it's mine.

tada! here's the tooth! about 1.7cm in length. quite huge leh. it has 3 roots. u can still see some of my flesh stuck there (turned black already). okay.. think i'm quite sick..



i placed it under my pillow last night and the tooth fairy visited this morning.

i'm now on a semi liquid diet. eating things like soup, porridge, mashed potatoes. the wound hurts quite badly today. my cheek is swollen like a hamster. had a slight fever and throbbing headache. i dread going to work tmr with the pain.. :(

anw thanx to lovely family n friends i've gotten lotsa care and pampering.. lotsa concern from everyone. i feel like i'm a baby.. just a tooth extraction and everyone's so sweet to me. my mummy especially.. she went with me yesterday.. i brought ali along and she nagged at me. she made soup for me too and sayanged my cheek.

alrighty the painkiller's worn off and the pain's coming back now.. i'm gonna sleep it off again. i dread work tmr..