Wisdom Teeth, etc.

Since Lynette got her wisdom teeth out recently, I decided I better stop putting it off. I got my wisdom teeth out earlier today. I only have 3 wisdom teeth that ever came in, so the oral surgeon took them all out...It's the two lower ones and the upper right. They put in dissolvable stitches, so I won't have to go back and get them taken out.

They put me to sleep with an IV, and it took like 20 seconds for me to go out. Mark said it took them less than 20 minutes to get all 3 out. (They were all impacted, so apparently they were pretty close to the surface since it didn't take very long...that's good, hopefully it will be faster healing.) It took me about 30 minutes after they were done to wake up, and then Mark got my prescriptions for me.

They prescribed pain medicine, an antibiotic, and special mouth wash. I've had a cold for the past week, and I'm supposed to take 3 antibiotics a day. I've taken 2 so far, and I think it's helping my cold go away xD. Maybe going to the doctor for a cold isn't a bad thing...xD I've been fighting this cold for a LONG time, and I am so ready for it to be gone.

I can hardly open my mouth still. The oral surgeon's nurse told us that I needed to eat something and then take some ibprufen and my antibiotics when I got home. I couldn't even open my mouth enough to put a spoon in it. O_o, so I asked Mark to buy me some Ensure or something like that (Pretty much, what it is is like a dietary drink of some sort that's supposed to be nutritious and can be a meal replacement.) It's kind of expensive, almost $11 for 6 8 oz bottles, but it tastes like a chocolate milk shake, AND it's actually somewhat filling. I wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything before my appointment, so when I got home I was starving. Also, when I got home, my cheeks and bottom lip were numb...so if I ate anything (I was going to eat yogurt, but couldn't get the spoon in my mouth cause I couldn't open my mouth wide enough xD) it probably would have dripped out (eww.) So, I drank my lunch and dinner (in the form of the Ensure drinks) They are surprisingly very good, but I won't be buying it on a regular basis...although I will most definately recommend this to anyone who is getting their wisdom teeth out.

I iced my face most of the time since I got home, and my face doesn't look or feel swollen to me :). The numbness ended about 4 or 5 hours after I got home...so now my face feels normal, aside from barely being able to put half a tea spoon in my mouth (I was actually able to eat some chocolate pudding, but it took some work. xD) The bleeding had stopped by the time I got home, and it seems to have clotted. I haven't tasted any blood at all.

I can feel the stitches, but I'm trying to keep my tongue away from it because I don't want them to get loose until they're ready. I'm not supposed to start taking the prescribed pain meds until tomorrow...so I really hope they don't start to hurt bad tomorrow :/ For now, it doesn't hurt because I'm making sure I take the pain pills to cover it xD.

Anyway, even better news, we found a new place to live! It's a 2 bedroom, 2 bath for about what we're paying for our current 1 bedroom, 1 bath. It's near Worlds of Fun. It is an apartment. We originally were looking for a house to rent, but we weren't able to find one we really liked, and wanted to make sure we knew where we were moving to before we ran out of time...so we've officially found a place. (Actually the last house we looked at was a 2 bdrm, 1 bath, it had less space than the apartment we're going to be moving into, didn't have air conditioning, and the person was asking $675/month. We're getting more for our money by just going to an apartment.) I'm SOOO excited and ready to move in! We're moving in on October 17. It actually has a dining room too!!! (All the places we've lived did not have a dining room) This dining room has carpet under it...not linoleum/tile. I don't like that, but I'll put up with it because I'm so excited to even have one xD. It also has a built in washer and dryer AND a pantry, and the 2nd bedroom has a walk-in closet = LOTS OF STORAGE!!! WOOT! Anyway, both Mark and I are both extremely excited and ready to move.

I have work off until Thursday to recover (and extra time beyond that if I still need it.) So, I think once I start to recover a bit (or get bored enough) I'll start doing some packing. Well, that's the latest. The apartment is in North KC and about 10 minutes from Mark's job and about 20 minutes from my work.