heees. today is day 4 of recuperation from my dental surgery! LOL.

doc gave me mc for 6 days but i think i'd better go back to work tmr before i lose my job!!

hmms...let me tell u all about my nightmare which occurred on 4 June.

well...i went to the dental clinic at Alexandra Hospital as referred to by the dental clinic at the polyclinic. so i went there for the surgery at 2pm with my dad...

and so i was sitting on the nice comfy sofa in the waiting area waiting for my name to be called...i begun to watch the television and slowly drifted off to sleep.....

haha...and me and my dad jerked up when my name was called dunno how many minutes later...that's because i was already in laalaa land...

so when i went into surgery room 1 my heart was thumping so hard any moment it might just stop. in the room was a nurse sitting at a desk and there was a nice sofa in one corner. in the middle of the room was a machine that is used to measure heart rates and stuff beside a black chair.

and when i entered, i was told to sit in that chair. and the nurse begun to take my heart rate and blood pressure...haha...i was so nervous i was sticking my arm out for her to put the armbend around me and when she was about to start the machine, my arm was still sticking out. the nurse chuckled and told me to relax my arm and to just lay it on my lap.

she then came over with my xray and said that they would be operating on my left wisdom teeth this time round.

OH MY HOLY GOSH.

the left???
"i thought it was the right?" i blurted out.
the nurse looked shocked and looked at my surgical form and showed me that the weird looking symbols on the form actually indicated that they would be removing the left side of the teeth today.
"BUT BUT BU- the last time i came here they said that i would be doing the easier of the two? this time round i'm extracting one and surgically taking out one right?"
omg omg omg.
then the nurse replied yes that we'll be doing that surgery today.
then it hit me.
DOOFUS ME!
i had mixed up the left and right side from the xray. i had thought that the xray was a mirror image and all along assumed that my right side was the one giving me the problems. when it wasnt. LOL.

everything clarified, i embarrassedly left the room. after that, i was told to wait outside again...before i was called into surgery room 2.

my heart was beating like a machine gone wrong cause i know that this is the moment. the moment i've been waiting for. the dreaded moment. i nearly collapsed from hyperventilation! lol. that's an exagerration la.

i was told to remove my shoes and when i stepped into the room my jaw fell onto the floor. *no pun intended* i had expected a nice little dentist chair the kind we used to see in schools. but oh my holy gracious!

in the middle of the room was a green surgical bed. (%$^$^#^#@^%@%$#^% why didn any of my friends tell me it would be like this??) and on top of the were two huge surgical lights. OMG. i was stumped and stopped dead in my tracks. i cant believe what i saw before me. i wanted so badly to run out of this place! there's no way i'm going to lie on that bed??!!! my dad nudged me in and he was asked by the nurse to sign some paperwork. i was told by another nurse to sit on the bed. after the paperwork was signed, the female doctor entered the room and briefed us on the whole procedure that i've heard a million times.

there would be numbness around the area for about a week because the teeth is near your nerve blah blah blah and then we would be removing this and that blah blah...
i also asked to be able to have my teeth back for keepsake.

and then the doctor said, "so now your father will wait for you outside."

WHAT???!!! i am going to be alone? oh no no no no !!!!!!!

and freaking scared trembling i was. never felt so terrified before. the flying fox wasnt so bad anymore. jumping off that pole during sec 3 camp was a piece of cake.
nothing in my life can compare with what i'm about to go through in the next few minutes. never felt so terrified and helpless in my entire life. NEVER.

i was told to lie on the bed and the two staff nurses begun to cover my body with a blanket. the doctor came down and sat beside me.
*piak piak* went the rubber gloves as the doctor wore them. i think this is the most horrible and terrible sound i've ever heard in my life, no matter how short it is been. somebody save me!!! *sobs*

immed i asked how long the procedure would take...20 minutes she replied. the longest 20 minutes of my life. 1200 dreadful seconds that doesnt seem to be ticking fast enough.

so she began to inspect my teeth. touch here and there. and then she applied some kind of cream on my gum, lips and teeth. and then i saw a glimpse of a huge cylindrical thing approaching my teeth and immeditately i shut my eyes tightly from then on.

and first needle was surpisingly not that painful. i couldnt tell how long she injected the thing into my mouth and neither do i know where she injected it into...cause slowly i am losing my sense of touch around my left cheeks and mouth area. i think she injected about 2 or 3 injections i guess, cause i didn't dare open my eyes and i cant really feel anything by now.

so she left me for the anesthetic to work it's effects leaving me in the cold room with the two nurses who began to converse together in malay. omg. i am so terrified and cold i was shivering. LITERALLY SIHVERING. have to do some mind thinking to calm myself down. but my hands were clasped together so tightly i was afraid i would break my own finger bones.

the nurse came over and laid some green cloth over my body and told me not to move as they would be putting some instruments on me. and they covered me with a green cloth which would expose only my mouth.

there i was day dreaming about all the possible worse case scenerios when i suddenly became very self conscious. because all this while my mouth has been wide open. it must look really ugly! so i tried to close it and to my horror, i cant close my mouth! damn the anesthetic! i cant even control my mouth now!

and then the doctor came in and said "open your mouth" which i dont think i could since my mouth is like, temporary permanently open. LOL.

and then she started to poke here and there and the surgery begun. throughout the whole procedure i really squeezed my hands extremely tight.

i cant really tell what she was doing and whether the tooth has been removed or not because i cant feel a thing at all! but i can still remember the horrible noise of that drill beside my ear and made me cry in my heart.

in my mind, i was so torn apart i was crying that i didn want to come back again for the other side. please! someone please let this end quickly! i dont want to go through it again!! pls!!!!

it was a dreadful process. i was told to bite a piece of gauze and while she takes something. and the open up and she'll continue doing what she has been doing. then the sucker machine would suck out moisture. and she'll ask me to bite the cloth again. and then remove it and then suck some more mositure. spray somemore liquid...bite somemore....

somehow i was aware that the doctor was removing my bottom wisdom tooth pieces by pieces...and then there was some pulling here and there which i cant really feel and then the golden words from the doctor's mouth.

"SURGERY'S OK"

YIPPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

lol. and then the surgical lights were turned off and the cloth removed....with the gauze clamped tightly between my teeth i sat back on the bed and i saw that my hands were so white and bloodless because i was squeezing them so tightly.

the nurse led me out of the room to retrieve my shoes and i was brought into the recovery room. i woke my dad and he accompanied me in...back into surgery room 1. this time, i'm resting on the sofa. the nurse handed my dad some prescription and told him to get my medicine while i am recovering. i tried to finger to my dad if he knew where the pharmacy was...and my dad went ????? the nurse laughed and quickly handed me a paper and a pen and i wrote " u know where?".
oh my, so paiseh la.
turned out, dad knew where it was. and he went to get the medicine while i looked at the stuff the nurse handed me...my xray, my teeth, my mc, a piece of paper for instructions and some more gauze.

i was supposed to rest for 20 minutes and then i saw a young chap looking around 21 years old entering the room...he came in to measure his heart rate and i noticed that he was wearing a cristiano ronaldo tee shirt from manchester united! ah! what a wonderful sight to behold! haha...and the nurse started talking to him and i overheard that he wanted to get his wisdom tooth extracted too but as his ORD was this coming sat, he had to get it done asap. problem is, which i just noticed, he had SORE EYES!!! i take back what i said just now about a wonderful sight to behold. quick! avoid all eye contact. LOOK AWAY TO SAVE YOURSELF!!! haha...i'm so mean.

and when he left, i was told to sit on the chair for my heart rate measurement and the nurse chuckled to me, "oh my, i didnt dare look into his eyes! it's so painful to look at him!" lol.

everything ok and we are on our way home! i got some antibiotics, painkillers and a medicine to ease the swelling and a mouth wash.

yay! i can go home! wonderful! fabulous!

and when we went to make the payment the staff told me that i've to go back to the clininc the coming monday to remove my stitches. huh???

there's STITCHES???!!! lol. the anesthetic work wonders! i didn even know that there were stitches! LOL.

and i guess the second time round wont be so bad after going through it this time...hees.

but i just want to add on that when the anesthetic wore off, it hurt like hell. the pain was so unimaginable and undescribale i cant put it in words. really painful beyond anything i've felt. so painful, when dear dear and my family called me, i just kept crying. wailing. omg.