Wednesday, February 21, 2007
lazy susan
*I won back the money i lost playing blackjack and in-between, and topped it off with $34 bucks while playing daidee.
*My recent wisdom tooth op left a small piece of tooth still intact INSIDE the hole. The doctor is so freaking unpro. He talk talk talk and chatter chatter chatter with the nurse, say what dun let the patient, aka me, to feel bored. Then end up still got one piece inside. I rather take boredom anytime hor.
*I already had 2 times yu sheng. First with family and one yesterday with "the gang". Pictures up another day.
*Do you know what the circular rotating glass thing on every restaurant table to bring your food closer to you is called? Look at the title of this entry.
*I'm damn lazy suddenly. No mood to blog anymore. Should i just neglect this space until further notice?
Labels: CNY, random, wisdom tooth
Thursday, February 15, 2007
crime on valentines
I pity the poor boyfriends who had to buy a last minute Valentines Day gift.
I was at Candy Empire at Vivocity and every damn thing was a dollar more expensive then usual.
I know because there were slips of paper stuck on every rack with the price on it. What's weird is that the prices were on even smaller slips of paper stuck on the bigger ones.
With scotch-tape.
I peeled off a $11.90 and found $10.90 underneath. A $9.90 hid a $8.90 under it.
You get the drift.
It doesn't pay to be in love.
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Anyway, my mouth's now quite alright after my 2nd op.
And i have more extracted teeth to show you!
Looks quite scary right? Like some warning on a cigarette pack.
Nope, those are not strawberries. They're actually the gauze that i've been biting on to stop the blood flow.
Freaked out already?
Labels: valentines, wisdom tooth
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
i am fucking in pain
Why is the post-surgery feeling so different this time round?
While i didn't feel much pain, just a slight discomfort the other time, this time, the left side of my mouth is fucking BURNING!
Hell, i could even talk immediately after the surgery, but this time, everything seems like a torture.
Even sitting here typing this now feels like the world's coming to an end, and it's slowly starting from my inner left cheek.
Speaking of inner left cheek, i realised the doctor stitched up a wound smack in the center of the inner cheek. Which means it's the meat, not the gums. Now why the hell is there a wound there?
Fuck, even my tongue hurts. It felt like it's been cut open and stitched back up again.
During the surgery, i actually had the appalling thought that the doctor was going to stitch up my tongue accidentally to my cheek. To counter this, i stuck my tongue as far away from the left side of my mouth as i could.
Damn gross.
Oh man, i need another jab of the numbing juice instead of the painkiller-cum-anti-swelling medicine that i have. Maybe i should open the capsule and rub the powder directly on the infected area.
Would that help?
Ok, i'm not that stupid. More on today's surgery when i can stand it.
Labels: wisdom tooth
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
male bonding
A campmate from another shift said this to me just now on msn.
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Soki says:
actually we can be good friends one leh
VinoVino says:
huh?
Soki says:
if we know each other somewhere else
VinoVino says:
lol
Soki says:
fuck la i dun sound gay right
Soki says:
i mean
Soki says:
gd friends
Soki says:
not gay friends
Soki says:
cb i think i sounded gay
Soki says:
LOL
VinoVino says:
LOL
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It's one part touching and one part cringe-worthy, but all parts awww...
Updates on my wisdom tooth.
It's more or less fine now, just that the thread seems to be coming loose and i keep fiddling it with my tongue. I feel like just yanking out the thread, but i scared it'll turn out to be like happy tree friends.
But my thread removal is scheduled on the 12th (and my second surgery is on the 13th!). That's about a week more. I think the thread will just disintegrate by then since i keep chewing on it as i'm eating.
The hole is still there. I'm worried that it won't close. Then i'll forever have a storage space for my food. Machiam hamster.
Then the food will start rotting and it'll spread and i'll rot from the inside out.
What a gory thought.
Labels: camp, friendship, wisdom tooth
Friday, February 02, 2007
i ate ice cream for dinner today
Today was the first of two wisdom teeth extractions that i'm having this month.
Being the first time, i didn't know what to expect, so i found everything amusing and was abit apprehensive about the surgery.
The nurse made me wear a head covering, shoe coverings and a wrap over my regular clothes. I must have looked like a buffoon.
I was led into this room with nothing but an operating chair in the middle and was told to lie down. The dentist soon came to pump me up with the numbing juice. The feeling of the needle going through the flesh of my mouth and my gums is way up there in the ranks of top most horrible feelings. And it tastes so bitter!
Anyway, after sticking the needle in me four or five times, the dentist left me alone and went back to the ajacent room, which was only seperated by a panel, to work on another patient. As i was sitting there, collecting bitter saliva in my mouth because i refused to swallow, i could hear all sorts of drilling and sucking noises. Quite traumatising i tell you.
It's like those old shows where the patients waiting outside a dentist's office can hear screams of agony coming from inside. That's me sitting there turning white.
Soon, the nurses started prepping me for the surgery. One nurse drapped a green cloth over my body and told me to stop fidgeting because the cloth would slip off. Then, she told me that my eyes would be covered because of the bright lights that would shine down so as to illuminate the back of the mouth.
She then proceeded to blind me by folding two layers of cloth over my eyes. I couldn't see shit! Someone could have came and molested me and i wouldn't be able to pick the person out from a police line-up.
Anyway, the dentist soon returned and began work immediately. I knew because i could hear the motor of the drill whirling beside my face.
The nurse kept reassuring me that everything would be just fine and i would just feel a little pressure. Try ALOT of pressure. The dentist drilled and tugged, tugged and drilled. He even got me to tilt my head away from the direction of the drill so he could have more leverage.
The whole time i was so afraid that he would hit a nerve or something. I like my sense of touch in my tongue back, thank you very much.
After awhile, i felt the dentist pulling a thread up and down my mouth. At first i thought he was flossing for me! How silly. He was obviously stiching me up.
That was only for the bottom tooth.
The top tooth, however, was much easier to extract because it was growing straight. He just clamped down on it and pulled till it came out. Quick and brutal.
The rightmost tooth was the one on the top, while the one on the bottom was drilled to bits. It's freaking disgusting.
After that, i was all set to go.
I left the room bleeding, having two gaping holes in my mouth, and thread sewn into the inner walls of my cheek.
I went home and couldn't bring myself to eat the porridge that my grandmother cooked, not because i didn't have an appetite, but because i was afraid the grains of rice would get stuck in the holes and not come out.
Imagine if the hole closed by itself with the rice in it. The rice could fossilize!
Dinner was porridge again, but this time, i mashed it with soup so that i could just swallow the whole lot. I was still hungry after that and soon found some chocolate ice cream in the fridge. It was heavenly. I think i'll be having ice cream for my meals from now on.
Not forgetting all the medicine that i have to take. I feel like an elderly.
Not gonna brush teeth today. Wish me a speedy receovery y'all!
Labels: dentists, wisdom tooth
