Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Wisdom Teeth Surgery

Alright guys, so I'm changing up the content on this one and relying on my own experiences.

I got my wisdom teeth removed a little over 24 hours ago and I have literally been in zero pain and it is not from the pain medication. It is due to a variety of factors. One of them being brilliant and shear luck. Why the hell do I deserve this amazing luck? I have heard nothing but horror stories from people getting their wisdom teeth removed and all this talk of dry sockets. Hell, the police officer who somehow ended up with all of my credit cards/information without my wallet, told me "I wouldn't wish a wisdom teeth removal on my worst enemy". Mind you, this was 2 hours before my surgery. Along with my luck, I had one hell of an oral surgeon!

The part to me that is "so illogical, its logical" happened during the surgery. I was put down with a local anesthesia with a needle to my arm. The oral surgeon put enough of this anesthesia in me that would keep down a 300 pound football players. For those of you who don't know me too well, I am 5'7 and I weigh 130 on a fat day. It takes the oral surgeon approximately 15 minutes to remove all 4 teeth, but 5 minutes into the surgery I somehow woke up. In an article by the Washington Post, 20,000-40,000 out of 21 million people who went into general anesthesia somehow woke up (be it by a Doctor's mistake etc...). This is 1/10 of 1 percent, but this number only counts the people who woke up. Not people who were able to carry on a conversation with the doctor. I was conscious for the last 10 minutes of the surgery as he ripped out 2/4 of my wisdom teeth. His first reaction to me waking up was "How are you awake", to which I replied "How the hell should I know?". Although I was awake for the last 10 minutes, I was still drugged up to the point that I did not feel any pain from him removing the teeth. All that I experienced was the discomfort of teeth being removed from my mouth.

My point is that experiences like this can not be explained, but somehow in the end make sense. These things are so illogical, they are logical!

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