Dental Surgery

Today I went in to have my dental surgery. Kenny drove me to the dentist, since I needed someone to drive me back home afterwards because for this appointment is was going to be put under general anesthesia. We got there about 30 minutes before the appointment. What was plenty of time to fill out the necessary paperwork and to tweet that I was going into dental surgery. While I was waiting for my appointment I realized that I had a very dry and scratchy throat and my voice pretty much started to sound like a 'rusty oven pipe'. I just thought that these symptoms in combination with dental surgery and general anesthesia are not the best possible combination. But there wasn't much I could do about it.

I went into surgery and again I answered the usual questions, that I had nothing to eat or drink for over 10 hours. The IV-Anesthesia always amazes me. You're perfectly clear one moment and without any signs of getting drowsy you're knocked out instantly. I was supposed to be in surgery for a little over 2 hours and was supposed to have 2 root canals done and 1 filling replaced. Turns out that the tooth where I was just to have a filling replaced had much more decay and needed to get a root canal as well. So I got a total of 3 root canals done and spent about 3 hours in surgery.

I remember that someone told me something in the recovery room. Still don't have a clue what it was. Usually it takes me about 30 minutes more or less wake up... but this time it took me almost all the way home, what is almost 1 hour. I spent the rest of the afternoon in the recliner watching TV and I was having a horrible sore throat. I already had I sore throat when I went in... and being intubated and having your mouth open for 3 hours while having dental work done, isn't helpful with the sore throat either. 3 hours later the worst of the sore throat discomfort was over. But I still wasn't feeling like myself. It took me over 8 hours to get out of state and being able to watch an entire TV episode without falling asleep several times. Usually it takes me 3 hours to get out of that state. The only thing I can think of is that it had something to do with the cold I was developing. Somewhere in those 8 hours of recovery I had a tomato soup and the warm soup definitely did my sore throat good.

By 8 pm or so I started coughing and my sinuses where completely clogged up. Apparently I was getting the same cold Kenny had been battling for the past 2+ weeks. Can't say that I'm looking forward to that. But besides from the discomfort of the cold I was in no real pain. The only thing that was bothering me were my gums, since the deep cleaning all the way to the gum line is not much fun. I think midnight was the first time that I felt, that I've gotten the anesthesia finally out of my system. So it took me almost 14 hours to get the anesthesia completely out of my system.