What a day!

Gonna blog about my wisdom teeth extraction at the NDC (if you're terrified about stuff like that don't read!!! but yeah, you wanna find out how strange and awkward medical procedures are then read. ha.)

Had a wisdom teeth extraction today, all 4 + 1 supernumerary teeth (extra teeth). Boy was it an experience! My first time going under GA and it's a really quick procedure I think, less than an hour. Of course recovery time and stuff took a while, but I must say the staff at the National Dental Centre are really professional! And their service is superb!!

So when I went, I was like 25min early from the time they told me to report, but I still had to wait and stuff... I had to change into this awkwardly huge surgery gown and wait. and wait. and wait. Think I waited for like 2 hours before it was my turn and there were some other kids before me (they schedule the order by age).

Right, so it was finally my turn. I was asked to walk into the surgery room, and there were quite a number of people preparing stuff. I had to sit on the bed/table, then the nurses started to strap my legs and one hand to prevent movement I guess. Then this nurse made me breathe through an oxygen mask (she said it was "oxygen") HAHAHA *suspicious* and then another person, whom i couldnt tell was a surgeon or nurse, I presume the anesthesia person, poked this needle into my wrist. Damn that hurt a little, actually it didn't really hurt it was more like an annoying dull pain. I was totally thinking they didn't warn me about that (first person I thought of was Eurona and her intense phobia of needles), I suppose it's cos they wanna catch people like her off guard and I think most people won't react as negatively as her.. Yea, I believe the anesthesia came from the needle, and a while later I was drifting off already.

And so, the surgery was over, and after a while I was on my bed waiting to come around. I must say, what a straaaaaaange feeling that was, it's like you knew you were awake and you could open your eyes or move your hands/legs but you just didn't want to and all you wanted to do was close your eyes and drift off hopefully. That, sadly, never happened and I rmb I was wide awake but my body just refused to open my eyes for more than 0.5s.. And I stayed pretty much awake the whole time. And then I was like in a this hyper-conscious state while waiting to wake up, first I felt the cold, then my stomach decided to have a terrible stomachache, and worse, I couldn't do anything about it cos I was mega groggy.
after which I was kinda hit by the realisation that there was a HUGE lump of phlegm lurking in my throat. But I couldn't cough, cos there were two gauges sticking out from my mouth, collecting saliva... Yeah and the whole time I was wondering if I was drooling or dribbling out of my mouth.. Hopefully not meh.

The really friendly and experienced senior nurse then pushed me out of the surgery room, cos she said it's warmer there. Yeah, thankfully. She told me she'll contact my mom and then told me my teeth were by the table at the side. The minute I could safely move my arms around I figured I'll just grab my teeth to check it our and see if I could reach my phone in my bag. I think the nurse heard my trying to open the pedestal so she came over to help me get my stuff. The service is really superb!

Day 2
okay so here I am, I wanted to post this yesterday but was in a hurry to go home so I didnt. Anyway, it's a lot better today, without all the blood and muck in my mouth. Nonetheless, I still can't quite speak or open my mouth cos after a whole night of clenching my mouth shut during sleeping (it just happens idk why), it's a lot harder to open my mouth now. and the numbness is kinda gone so I can actually feel pain when I touch my skin at where the extraction was.

And NDC just gave me a call a while ago to ask how I was feeling and some instructions on keeping it clean. This only reinforces how great their service is!

Hope I can start taking solid foods soon! All I wanna eat now is ice cream actually though. Craving Daily scoop's avocado :)

What a day!

Gonna blog about my wisdom teeth extraction at the NDC (if you're terrified about stuff like that don't read!!! but yeah, you wanna find out how strange and awkward medical procedures are then read. ha.)

Had a wisdom teeth extraction today, all 4 + 1 supernumerary teeth (extra teeth). Boy was it an experience! My first time going under GA and it's a really quick procedure I think, less than an hour. Of course recovery time and stuff took a while, but I must say the staff at the National Dental Centre are really professional! And their service is superb!!

So when I went, I was like 25min early from the time they told me to report, but I still had to wait and stuff... I had to change into this awkwardly huge surgery gown and wait. and wait. and wait. Think I waited for like 2 hours before it was my turn and there were some other kids before me (they schedule the order by age).

Right, so it was finally my turn. I was asked to walk into the surgery room, and there were quite a number of people preparing stuff. I had to sit on the bed/table, then the nurses started to strap my legs and one hand to prevent movement I guess. Then this nurse made me breathe through an oxygen mask (she said it was "oxygen") HAHAHA *suspicious* and then another person, whom i couldnt tell was a surgeon or nurse, I presume the anesthesia person, poked this needle into my wrist. Damn that hurt a little, actually it didn't really hurt it was more like an annoying dull pain. I was totally thinking they didn't warn me about that (first person I thought of was Eurona and her intense phobia of needles), I suppose it's cos they wanna catch people like her off guard and I think most people won't react as negatively as her.. Yea, I believe the anesthesia came from the needle, and a while later I was drifting off already.

And so, the surgery was over, and after a while I was on my bed waiting to come around. I must say, what a straaaaaaange feeling that was, it's like you knew you were awake and you could open your eyes or move your hands/legs but you just didn't want to and all you wanted to do was close your eyes and drift off hopefully. That, sadly, never happened and I rmb I was wide awake but my body just refused to open my eyes for more than 0.5s.. And I stayed pretty much awake the whole time. And then I was like in a this hyper-conscious state while waiting to wake up, first I felt the cold, then my stomach decided to have a terrible stomachache, and worse, I couldn't do anything about it cos I was mega groggy.
after which I was kinda hit by the realisation that there was a HUGE lump of phlegm lurking in my throat. But I couldn't cough, cos there were two gauges sticking out from my mouth, collecting saliva... Yeah and the whole time I was wondering if I was drooling or dribbling out of my mouth.. Hopefully not meh.

The really friendly and experienced senior nurse then pushed me out of the surgery room, cos she said it's warmer there. Yeah, thankfully. She told me she'll contact my mom and then told me my teeth were by the table at the side. The minute I could safely move my arms around I figured I'll just grab my teeth to check it our and see if I could reach my phone in my bag. I think the nurse heard my trying to open the pedestal so she came over to help me get my stuff. The service is really superb!

Day 2
okay so here I am, I wanted to post this yesterday but was in a hurry to go home so I didnt. Anyway, it's a lot better today, without all the blood and muck in my mouth. Nonetheless, I still can't quite speak or open my mouth cos after a whole night of clenching my mouth shut during sleeping (it just happens idk why), it's a lot harder to open my mouth now. and the numbness is kinda gone so I can actually feel pain when I touch my skin at where the extraction was.

And NDC just gave me a call a while ago to ask how I was feeling and some instructions on keeping it clean. This only reinforces how great their service is!

Hope I can start taking solid foods soon! All I wanna eat now is ice cream actually though. Craving Daily scoop's avocado :)