Merrily On My Way To Nowhere in Particular: May 2009

Today I had a wonderful adventure to the surgical dentist. I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed. So to start the day I got dressed but when I came out, my mom asked me "is that what I wanted to sleep in?" I asked her what she meant and if I could wear pajama pants then all excited for some strange reason. When I got changed into my scrub pants which are my pajama pants, I came into the family room sat down for a second and got up again to put on my shoes. As I started to walk away my mom and sister start to laugh. Then my mom tells me my pants are inside out. Great way to start the day!

We arrive and I read the paper work and initial where I'm suppose to and waited for the assistant to call me back when "a room opened up". Which we all know is code for getting rid of the body.

So they call me back and take to my room. As I pass by I saw a room with a man in it. They sit me down and get the chair set up at the right lengths, heights, ect ect. She then put the nose of nitrous oxide (laughing gas) on and breathed ever so deep to become that lovely feeling of numb. I soon get past the normal feeling of numbness usually felt at the regular dentist. It was getting hard to feel stuff like my arms, legs, teeth, brain, tongue, little stuff like that.

As I got more and more numbed up I could remember the nureses talked about how someone didn't invite them to a wedding. Or how the guy that was in the room I passed who had just had surgery and his wife is waiting in the car with the baby. And other things were said.

But then the moment I hated the most... THE NEEDLE! The doctor put a torniquet on my arm tight and it hurt. Poked the arm with his finger to find the vein, he swabbed and stuck the needle in! The skin peice didn't hurt but the PUNTURING OF THE VEIN DID!!! Then he pumped something in and I started to get a bitter taste in my mouth.

The next thing I know I'm being told to keep my eyes open for some reason. I'm thinking why you have to put me out for the surgery? And for some reason started humming the theme to Fantasmic then Mickey Mouse Club. Appearently the nurse was humming something that got me going in the first place and she stopped claiming I "ruined her song". Then later laughed asking the other "is she singing mickey mouse?"

A few minutes of keeping my eyes open: Mom, KC, Joey, and for some reason Roxanne all come into the room to take me home in Joeys car. I just remember signing "I want my mom." and the nurse telling me she doesn't know sign language. When they came in I started signing names and for some reason signed AJ's even though I knew earlier he and Vita went home.

I swung my feet over and stood up. Just repeating to my self "Keep Head Up" over and over again. Then being lead down the stairs felt myself feeling the ground with my feet so as not to fall down the stairs. On hand in KCs hand the other on the wall.

Joey on the ride home was making joke with KC and Roxanne was quit as usual. When we got to the house he pulled up on the lawn with the walk way at my door. Im thinking what a redneck. How must that look to our neighbors... walked myself into the house, removed my shoes and flopped into bed!!! Right now I feel like a chipmonk with all this gauze in my mouth. It made it real interesting to swallow baby food though. ; )

In the end I upset partly because I forgot to ask them if I could keep my teeth. Big bummer!!!

Will post more as recovery goes along.

Since I started blogging in the late part of the year I thought I would still post anyway. In this semester (Spring 2009) I took a Sheep Fitting and Showing as a fun class and thought it would be useful later as an Ag teacher. In the class your given the option to show a school lamb at a jackpot show. A jackpot show for those of you who don't know are competitions for kids to show their animals. It's like a poker tournament, you go to the tournament and the better you do in your group/class the further you move up and at the end of the day the best player/shower wins the pot.
The whole week before hand we prepared the lambs, shearing, working them out, ect. So we traveled to Tulare and worked our butts off. We ended up dominating the final market class and won reserve supreme champion. We had a lot of fun and came home exhausted!!!