Got my wisdom teeth removed this morning

[Steve of Lansing]

Got mine done while in college prep school (Texas Military Institute); had to have all 4 out via oral surgery and they used sodium pentothal for the anesthetic. Ah yes, the old "truth serum".

Knowing that people are prone to loquacity under its influence and that I could later deny any memory of it, I made a point on awakening in the recovery room to tell my grandmother, with whom I was boarding while going to school, just what I thought of her in the most profane language I could come up with. (Let's just say I didn't like being there.)

My only other memory of that was of vomiting blood all over her front lawn on the way from her car into the house.

There was a lot of fragmentation during the surgery. . .I had little shards and slivers occasionally working their way to the surface for 30 years or so.

You'll be fine. Enjoy your rest!

WOW!!!

Are we certain this was a dental procedure and not an "enhanced interrogation"?

They must just do things a little less gingerly in TX.

[Spc. Scott]

WOW!!!

Are we certain this was a dental procedure and not an "enhanced interrogation"?

They must just do things a little less gingerly in TX.

It's likely the military dentistry thing. I got all four of mine out at Ft. Bragg and what I got was enough Novocaine, or some caine derivative, to bring a rhino to it's knees. One of them was really badly impacted and the doc said "you'll feel some pressure here". What he did was drill a hole in the side of the tooth and then take an "L" shaped tool and used it to break the tooth. Then pulled out the pieces.

Some painkillers and a few days quarters and good as new. I hope you mend up quickly Meghan.

[Dale Seago]

It's likely the military dentistry thing.

Nope, it was my grandmother's family dentist and I was 16 at the time: TMI is a private JROTC military academy my parents sent me to to keep me from flunking out of high school because I was bored. I hated it so much that I buckled down and graduated a year ahead of my peers just to get out of there.

I got all four of mine out at Ft. Bragg and what I got was enough Novocaine, or some caine derivative, to bring a rhino to it's knees. One of them was really badly impacted and the doc said "you'll feel some pressure here". What he did was drill a hole in the side of the tooth and then take an "L" shaped tool and used it to break the tooth. Then pulled out the pieces.

Sounds about like what I got; I'm just glad I wasn't awake for it! Out of all my time in both the Marines and Army, my worst memory of military medical treatment was as a young Marine getting both of my nether cheeks pumped so full of massive amounts of penicillin that I couldn't sit normally for a week or more. Trust me when I say that acquiring the condition which made the treatment necessary was not enough fun to justify it in the end.

I just figured Dale would get his teeth out while practising his martial arts.

Well, perhaps miracles do still happen. I've been training some 44 years now, the past 28 of which has been in the Bujinkan. Both deliberately and by accident over that time I've been punched in the face, kicked in the face, smashed in the face with a wide variety of weapons so many times I finally figured out I needed to start getting out of the way. It's a wonder I haven't gotten anything broken (a couple of chipped teeth don't count, surely) or lost an eye.

Meghan, bless your heart -- and I mean that in the best way! Do please be careful the next few days, and you should end up just fine.