Samira wrote:
What did you do to your mouth?
It was just a filling, and everything went hunky dory at the dentist, the nurse on suction duty was a pro at keeping my mouth dry without a drop going down my throat. I made sure to compliment her for her skill. The needles didn't hurt, the drilling didn't hurt, my music was so soothing I seriously almost fell asleep in the chair. In fact I probably would have if I didn't keep having to open and close and grind down on carbon paper and spit water on command.
But my itty bitty tight-tendoned jaw had to be widened further open than it likes to go for him to get at the tooth tucked right at the furthest back grue-limits of my mouth. (Not a wisdom tooth) I told him it was really tight back there, extremely hard to brush those particular two back teeth on either side, but he didn't believe me until he had to go back there and try and work in there himself. Why do most medical professionals never believe what I say until they see it for themselves? Anyway, 9/10 pain for 30 hours while my jaw got over being forced. Sorry I cried like a whiney bi
tch, but although I considered for a Pico-second going into the ER for a morphine whack I decided to dump on you instead. <3
It felt like my jaw had been kicked several times by a big man in steel-capped boots. I didn't know at the time, but apparently I had the full chipmunk cheek thing going too. I was pitiful enough for my partner to treat me like a princess for two days, and I slept on an ice-pac.
So apparently I have a mutant jaw, an extra vertebra, a couple genetic diseases, and continuous positive tests for a disease that only immuno-suppressed people get, without any positive test returns for immune problems.
I take great vicious pleasure in becoming an evolutionary dead-end, except for the non-growth of any under-arm hair thing, which I believe would be handy for descendants given current fashion trends. I really wish my theoretical grand nephews and nieces good luck, but maybe I should start a trust-fund for them for likely medical expenses, given the odds. Roll on medical progress.