Wisdom teeth... GONE!

I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. And despite the anxiety and how gross it would be and all the preparations I made for pain, discomfort and drug-induced sleepiness, I feel just fine. The surgery went great, although I apparently told the nurse when I was "coming to" all the food and Disney DVDs I had waiting for me at home. I do not remember that at all. I only remember saying that I felt intoxicated and that my arms were heavy. Then the nurse helped me walk to the van and my dad helped me into the van. I don't remember how we got to the pharmacy, but we did. And then my dad helped me out of the van and down the stairs, where I promptly went pee and started to come back upstairs but was told to go back down and lie down. I wanted a drink of water, apparently forgetting I had inches of gauze in mouth, making drinking impossible.

I stopped bleeding regularly around 3:00 - 4:30. In the morning, I was bleeding so much that the gauze was full and I had to spit every minute or so into a towl for an hour. But now the only time I bleed at all is after I eat a lot (which would be about 2 puddings cups, and I only eat one at a time) or laugh really loud (like when I was watching Scrubs last night).

Waking up this morning, I'm a little stiff and sore in the mouth area. But I haven't taken any pain killers or ibuprofen sine 11:00 pm yesterday. I will probably ice my face a bit and maybe take some ibuprofren afterwards. But this whole recovery thing is pretty easy and vaguely painless. I'm pretty used to mouth pain, having had braces for 3 years (thank God those are gone...) and having only lost 6 teeth on my own - the rest (plus two permanent teeth) were pulled by my dentist.

I have four days to recover and I think I'll be totally fine when I go back to school Monday. This time that I get alone and off work this weekend will be used to revise my script for our AP Lit paper and also to do plenty of work on my NaNoWriMo project. It's a story I started in the summer and I'm adding 50,000 to the 25,531 I already have. I've made a lot of progress. In 6 days, I wrote 13,679 words. Let's keep it going, right?

Okay, this is horribly long and has nothing to do with books or movies that I've watched. (I watched The Little Mermaid, Hercules Mulan and Casper yesterday and am reading Wuthering Heights for AP Lit. It's good, I like it.)

Oh, and I'm hungry. Pudding and jello are good, but not as filling as I'd like. But once done with one, I'm too sore to eat a second. Hmmph. But I get mashed potatoes and soup today, so hopefully that will be a little more satisfying.

Ahh, November...

November. What a great month.

It's National Novel Writing Month. This year, I am continuing a story I began this summer. It's historical fiction, WWII from a woman's American homefront perspective. I've done a lot of work with timelines and plot planning and put 25,531 words into it in July. So far, I've added 9,913. Hopefully, by the end of the month, I will have 75,000 words and a finished novel that I can edit and be happy with. Check out my profile!

It is also a time for freak nature occurences. Last week, it was 40 degrees. This week, it's 70. Not that I'm complaining. Plus, thanks to daylight saving time, it is light out when I go to school, even though it sort of sucks that it gets dark between 5:00 and 5:30.

The only thing that sucks this month is the cumulation of long-term projects I should have started and finished weeks ago instead of leaving to the last week. And I have to get my wisdom teeth out in two days, which sucks. But at least it will be over with.



PS: Happy voting day!
And happy We Have a Black President Named Barack Obama day!