It's june and i'm sitting in my room feeling a bit sorry for myself.
I got my wisdom teeth removed on tuesday afternoon; I was actually really nervous before the surgery. The whole I'm unconscious thing while people are cutting up my gums and digging around for my teeth. Honestly though I had a good surgeon he was really friendly before and reassuring and I'm recovering well. Apparently when you've been under General Anaesthesia you wake up either laughing or crying. My cousin Michelle woke up laughing, I of course woke up in tears. But because I knew what to expect I didn't get too emotional, instead I was shivering more. I get cold easily and I'm guessing it was really cold when they were doing the operation and I suppose I can't shiver when I'm under GA so I woke up with the shakes. The nurses were good though. One ran off and got me a thicker blanket.
My mom had dropped me off at the clinic and came back with my brother and I'm glad she did because she gets nervous around blood (she's been known to faint) and the first thing my brother does when he sees me is take a photo (if i get hold of it I'll upload it.) It was nice having him around, he made me laugh but at the same time was very attentive making sure I was ok. Mom in the meantime was sitting a bit further away and telling my brother not to make me laugh and to let me rest.

Today's Friday, about 3 days later and my face is still massive. I don't know where my jawline is anymore and the nurse I spoke to on the phone said it's normal for my face to swell up more before it gets better. I'm taking an antibiotic, 2 types of pain killers and rinsing my mouth alot with saltwater and basically doing nothing else except trying to make my family feel sorry for me and do stuff for me ! (not working very well. unsympathetic savages...) I'm still eating liquid-ish stuff but my lower jaw is starting to feel a bit better so hopefully I'll soon be able to eat more solid food.

My main worry atm is the commitments I'd said yes to before thinking that I would've recovered by now. Tonight I'm supposed to start traning to help out with the multimedia at revo (church young adults), tomorrow I'm helping out with a kid's programme all afternoon and Sunday I have training for work! I think I'm fine to go to all of these as long as I keep talking to a minimum and I take my pain killers with me in case I need them. I've been really good with my pain killers I don't take them as often as I'm supposed to, I'm glad that the pain isn't that bad.

I shall stop here for now. Might update later :)

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