The left hand side wound has bits of flesh flapping around, still attached to my cheek. It's nice. The right hand side is still all closed up. I'm off the pain killers, although things are uncomfortable still, they are not painful most of the time. I had some toast today, and chewing is becoming possible, so I might be able to have more options now.

Went back to work today. Things were sore. Worse than yesterday, but I guess I was having to talk shop to people, which didn't help. My left hand side wound lost the knot from the stitch yesterday. Not sure if it was because it's breaking down already, or if it just came out, but I now have a thread dangling around. The right hand side has one piece of a stitch acting like cheese wire, but I guess it will be sorted soon. The pain comes and goes, but it's not too bad most of the time now. Still on the pain killers.

I had pasta in soup last night, which was progress, and I had a normal sandwich (egg mayo, so softish) at lunch. It's hard work as I can't open me gob properly, and it's slow going. Think it's more pasta in soup tonight.

Well, i've cracked open the soups last night. First intake of anything nutritional for a while, seem to be steadier on my feet at least. My lower teeth (the ones left) feel like they are being squashed, like when I had a brace as a kid, I guess that either the swelling is pushing them, or they are moving in to the holes left, either way, it's uncomfortable rather than painful, but very distracting.

I've also discovered via my tongue, the small amount I can see in a mirror, and google, that my cheeks are stitched right over the holes and on to my gums. Apparently this is to protect the holes, and when the stitches dissolve it will go back to normal, but it feels most odd. I wonder why they never told me the were going to do it.

I'm back on normal pain killers. As long as I don't do anything, things are painful, but not too bad. Swollowing hurts a fair amount, I'm dizzy, and it feels/tastes like someone has crapped in my mouth.

I didn't go to bed last night, I slept upright on the sofa (on and off), I didn't want to start anything bleeding again as it had taken me hours to get the right tooth hole to stop. I'm guessing that today I'll probably be napping lots. If things carry on like this, I'll be in bed tonight and hopefully get a good nights sleep.

Work on monday is not looking likely at this point, I want to get back as soon as I can, but I'm not going to risk anything. Right now I'm worried about knocking anything, it hurts to move my head etc, so getting knocked at work might not be a great idea.

Gonna try drinking some squash now and see what happens.

My tongue is still a little numb, but oh boy, is the pain here, it fecking hurts. It's what I was told to expect though, but that doesn't make it hurt less. Another hour till I can take any more anadin too. Wish I'd got something else I could take with the anadin.

The bleeding doesn't seem to be easing up in the right side either.

Anadin is not strong enough. It's been around 2 hours since I took some, and I guess the local is wearing off. The pain is already bad, and I can still feel the local effecting things. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

Don't worry, this complaining thing isn't going to become a feature of my blog, I'm just interested how I'll remember this is say 6 months time compared to how it feels now.

I've been dumping my load all day, I new it wasn't going to be pleasant. It was better than I feared, but worse than I hoped.

I got there with 15 minutes spare before my 2:30 appointment. At about 2:50 they let me know they were running 30 minutes behind. These things happen, particularly in our over stretched dentists/doctors/hospitals. They took me through for the local anaesthetic. 2 long injections, and 4 not so long ones to get both sides numb. I could feel it working right way. 10 minutes later we get on with the serious work. The right hand tooth was not too bad, yes there was drilling, yes there was tugging. Quite a lot of both, but it's to be expected. Some nice crunching sounds with I hope were the tooth breaking, and not bits of my jaw breaking. The left tooth was a bitch to get out. Even the dental surgeon said they hadn't had one that tough for a while. First they saw the gum (that's what it felt like anyway). That bit didn't hurt. Then they start drilling the top of the tooth off, and drilling the jaw bone. There was a not so lovely smell of something burning during this process, and then pain. I let them know quite clearly that the local wasn't working. They gave me some more, still hurt, then some more, and it was bearable. They had to stop twisting and pulling a couple of times to do more drilling on the right tooth, and I can tell you, that female dental surgeon is stronger than she looks, as she twisted and pulled that tooth. Lots more cracking sounds, and eventually it was out.

I'm home now, and the local has still not warn off. The right side is completely numb, no feeling at all. The left side hasn't stopped hurting since the drilling initially provoked it. I'm on the anadin extra, no drink till tomorrow, and we'll just have to see how the food thing works out.

Still, it's done now, a couple of days of pain are to be expected, but I have 6 series of red dwarf to watch, and a mog that will keep me company.

Well, a while ago I posted about needing some of my wisdom teeth out. Between Christmas and new year I got a phone call from the hospital, they were referring people to dental surgeries to try and get the waiting lists down. Monday night I got a call from a dentist surgery 45 minutes from home saying that they could do the deed this Friday. So I went in Tuesday for the consultation, which I'd already been through at the hospital. I found out that the hospital had referred me for a local anaesthetic only, not the sedation I was supposed to be getting. So I now find myself in a mixed emotion state. I don't need anyone to drive me around, or to stay with me this way, and I don't have to join the back of a long waiting list, but I now get to have my gums sliced open, bits of my jaw bone removed, and my teeth taken out sideways all whilst I'm awake.

I guess I should feel lucky that at least I'm in a place and time when I can get the dental work done I need, but I'm still bricking it.

Not sure it will be a fun weekend either.

When I exported my old phones contacts from lookout express, and imported them in to Outlook (the different phone software picks a different default outlook version), they all came imported with an email address of "[No email address found]". My old phone didn't have email addresses for people, so I thought it was no biggy, but my new one does, and it irritated me. An hour or so of trying to write a VB macro in Outlook resulted in me combining the 'ResetBirthday2' macro from Microsoft with the right bits from this one to get a macro that loops through all my imported Outlook contacts and replaces any 'no email found' with blanks.

I'm glad I don't have to do VB for a living.

Well, my new phone arrived before they said it would, so i'm now blogging on it to prove the point