I’m only half as wise as I used to be
Which isn’t saying much I guess.
I had my two lower wisdom teeth pulled out yesterday. It wasn’t as bad as I expected, but I’ve been popping a couple of lortab every four hours or so and without that I’d be rolling around crying in pain. As it is, I’ve pretty much just been laying around in bed. The lortab definitely kills the pain, but it also zonks you out pretty hard.
I was unconscious for the procedure - sort of. It wasn’t what I was expecting. They didn’t use gas. Instead, whatever it was keeping me asleep came in through an IV. The difference is that when you’re under the gas, you lose time. You go out, and you wake up, and there’s no sense of having lost any time, and you’re not aware of anything at all. With the IV, it’s like you’re just sleeping really hard. There were a couple of times that I was aware of things happening - something banged against my upper teeth at one point, and I remember saying “ow” to something at another point.
Anyhow, the upside is that once I’ve healed, it won’t ever bother me again.
