So, um, can I just have that Percoset now?

Nanoo, nanoo. I am getting so nervous about this surgery thing. Heart pounding and I feel sick. I kind of didn’t think about what it actually entails and now I’m thinking about having to get there and be put under and then wake up and then get my mom home from the place and how long is it going to take and how is Owen going to be at the dentist’s office and is he going to get hungry and how will I be without caffeine or nicotine that long. I really should have started weaning myself down a little bit before now. Frankly, I should quit altogether, but that scares me.

And gaping stitched-up holes and cotton gauze and no food and woozy-making drugs and what if I sleep all day, how is my mom going to take care of Owen? I won’t be awake to tell her that he likes to go into the laundry room and just look at the vacuum cleaner every once in a while. (He does. I don’t know why, but he does.)

And I didn’t get the house very clean and my mom’s on the road and I don’t think she has this number and what if she gets to the house before I get home and she has to wait in the driveway for an hour and Owen might be coming down with something and I feel like I forgot to do something important this morning.

Right. So. Can I have an advance on those drugs, then? That’d be SWELL.

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11 Responses to “So, um, can I just have that Percoset now?”

Matt on March 29th, 2006 1:40 pm

I know this might sound like no help, but…

Having had my own (four, impacted) wisdom teeth pulled, and having watched you go through dental trauma in another life, I can say this:

Don’t compare the two. Compared to your previous experience, this is a hangnail. It will hurt, a bit. For a few days, Iain and/or Owen won’t be the crankiest one in the house. The drugs will be good. If you’re a two beer queer like me, you’ll take them thrice. The first two will be like getting hit with a beautiful gold brick. On the third, you’ll wake up and say, “Wow. Fuck, I can’t even watch Murder She Wrote without getting dizzy. I gotta stop that. Where’s the aspirin?”

And besides that, your mom will come, and she will make it all better. Half the people that read this blog have met her, and they agree with me. The other half haven’t, and they still agree with me. ()

Anyway, you’ll be fine. Honest.
supamb on March 29th, 2006 2:04 pm

(as per my e-mail to you, Matt:)

OK. Because I keep thinking of the massive maxillofacial trauma of my last surgeries and expecting this to be the same. And I think that’s what’s getting me worked up.

“Two beer queer”: Hahahahah. That phrase is really cheering me up right now.

Suddenly remembered that I never replied to your last comment about flat-packing and hammers. Will go do that.

Funny, my mom loves you too! Thanks for cheering me up. And honestly YOU NEED A BLOG. I love your way with words
Sarah on March 29th, 2006 3:54 pm

Wisdom teeth? No big deal. I had it done in a hospital, and if I recall correctly (prepare for wordy comment, so I apologize in advance) I checked into the hospital, got myself an IV, and that was the worst part. The surgery was done, I had all four wisdom teeth out, and then I was wheeled into a room with a bed that ultimately folded in half to be like a chair. I recovered in there with other wisdom teeth patients, and I noticed that when I finally had the strength and ability to get up and hobble to the bathroom, upon my return the bed had become a chair, where I recovered some more until I could go home.

After I went home, I was a little nauseated, and that was from ingesting a little blood during the surgery, and that went away. I ate pudding pops and slept a bit, and the next day I was feeling pretty good. So don’t worry. It’s not a horrible horrible thing. It’s manageable, and the state of reduced capacity does not last long at all.
Chair on March 29th, 2006 4:53 pm

I had the general anesthetic and the drugs and the seriously impacted roots and it was painful for about one day, then it was just annoying. But I took the whole week off just because I could! Of course, I didn’t have a child at the time but other than that first day of drug blur, you probably won’t NEED your mom as much as you think you will. You’ll be hanging out in the laundry room with Owen in no time!
jess on March 29th, 2006 6:29 pm

Like i said already, you’re going to be fine. Everybody said it already, it’s just a day or two. Owen will be fine too. The thing i’ve learned is that when they are with grandma they just do things differently and it’s okay that they do (took me a while to accept that.)
Tasha on March 29th, 2006 7:31 pm

It’ll be OK MB! I had my wisdom teeth out a few days before Christmas about five years ago. It wasn’t painful, just annoying (and I was able to eat mashed potatoes and noodles for dinner with the rest of the family.) And Owen will be fine with your Mom. It’s too bad I didn’t plan better or I could have taken the train up and helped out! Give Owen a wet sloppy kiss for me!
Elizabeth on March 29th, 2006 8:57 pm

I got mine taken out in high school. Loads of fun, and my hair hid my cheeks.
Your mom will do fine with Owen! That’s what grandmas are for. And she’ll probaly clean up for you while she’s at it (my MIL does, anyways).
One word for you: relax. And then take some drugs.
Alicia on March 29th, 2006 10:58 pm

If it helps - when I got my wisdom teeth pulled, it was a breeze. First I blinked and it was over. Then I couldn’t stop laughing. Guaze was falling out of my mouth and that made me laugh harder. I kept trying to talk and my mom finally handed me a piece of paper and a pencil - if I really needed to tell her something, she told me to write it down. This is what I wrote:

“That was fun! Let’s do it again!”

No kidding.

Good luck! I’ll be sending good thoughts your way.
mrsfortune on March 30th, 2006 1:06 pm

Okay, I had it done … and once they put you under, then you wake up and it’s like no time has passed at all, so don’t worry about it on that score.

And the smoking thing? They’re going to tell you not to smoke for I think it’s 48 hours. Hahaha … Not to be a bad influence but I smoked about 10 minutes after I got home and it was all okay. And you’ll be so doped up you won’t care about the caffeine. Good luck.
michaela on March 30th, 2006 1:53 pm

i hope you’re doing ok (am sure that you are…). enjoy the drugs and the rest!
supamb on April 2nd, 2006 7:19 pm

Thanks, everybody! It was soooo not as bad as I was afraid it was going to be. I appreciate all the calming thoughts and stories.