RANT: Wisdom Teeth

[Doramius]

I don't smoke, do drugs, and some people would consider me a non-drinker, too. Yet this drug trip at an oral surgeon was something I'd do over again, just for the anesthetic.

I go to an oral surgeon to have wisdom teeth taken out. A friend is along with me to drive me back home and to go with me to get things at a grocery store afterwards for me to eat and drink as I won't be able to eat normal solids for a while after the surgery.

We're at the office and I get seated in a chair and the nurse comes in and gets my IV line ready. The Anesthetician comes in and runs a shot into the IV line. He also hands me a headset radio and tells me to lay back and relax and then leaves. I look straight forward and see this picture of dried flowers in front of me, clearly. Then I look down and get the cascading effect of the picture moving up. I'm thinking this is cool and do the cascading effect of the picture down and then to the sides. I then hold up my hands while listening to some kind of elevator music, getting the same cascade effect. I try and move a hand towards my face, but used a strong amount of force because my hand felt very heavy, and smacked myself in the face, which also produced a really cool flashing light effect under the anesthetic. After that I don't remember a thing until I found myself sleepily being woken up by my friend in another room. Apparently, I was walked to a quick recovery room, but didn't remember my stroll to it.

THE FUNNY PART
Whatever you do, if you go under an anasthetic like this and have to do shopping afterwards?.....make out your list ahead of time. My friend takes us over to the grocery store so we can get something I can eat and drink for the next couple of days. I told him beforehand that we need things like applesauce, juices and other soft things. We get into the grocery store and he grabs a cart while I start walking, in a true stoned fashion, off in one direction without turning down an asile. I peer out the front window and ask my friend, "This looks like the bus station, I thought we came to the office in my car?"
He grabs my arm and tells me to hold onto the grocery cart. I then start off walking again, being led by the grocery cart and my friend trying to grab me before I drive the cart through an impulse tower of crackers. My firend made sure I got Applesauce and a bunch of Gatorade, but I had demanded that I get other things as well. List of other items bought: Gummy Bears, Doughnuts, Planters salted Cashews, 1 can of beets, toilet scrub brush, Brown Shoe polish (when I only had black dress shoes), quart of radishes, quart of blueberries, Hibatchi cooking rack (I didn't own a hibatchi), stack of paper plates, and 5 lb. bulk bag of Jolly Ranchers. I also had an incident where my friend took something out of that cart and put it back. I yelled, loudly, in the store that I wanted Nutrigrain bars. Unfortunately we were in the women's care asile and I was trying to put a box of sanitary napkins in the cart. I really didn't remember the total, but the receipt said $58.19 was the total. I didn't even remember how I paid and had to ask my friend a few days later. He told me it was with my ATM card, I had a long time remembering my PIN, and I tried hitting on the cashier, which I'm told was actually hot, but pregnant. My friend said he had to explain the situation to the cashier because it took nearly 10 minutes to put in my PIN. I remember very little parts of that ordeal, but my friend knows every little thing after having to chase me down asiles while I'm banging into everything. I think he told me I did knock down a beer display, but didn't any damage to it. I remember waking up about 7pm the next day during the twilight and thinking it was morning. I ended up falling back asleep 2 hours later and woke up the next day after noon feeling like Rip VanWinkle.

There's just something about being stoned that makes you want to do it again even when humiliating yourself in front of a friend and others.

[stiltman]

everyone outside my office is wondering why I'm laughing so hard.

[Grimey]

Hialrious I want to go and get some thing removed so i can have a trip like that.

[Doramius]

Hialrious I want to go and get some thing removed so i can have a trip like that.

Whoa there, Grimey. Make sure you know what you're trying to get removed there and state it clearly and specifically ahead of time. You don't want to 'lose your pride'.

[DVD_Ripper]

Now you know why there are some many drug addicts... its a wonderful high.

I remember when I was 14.... I had a stomach issue and they shot me with Morophene at the hospital... My mom drove me home and she said I was howling at the moon on the way home in car - head out the window like a dog. ... I remember telling her how 'nice' I felt.

[pacmania_2001]

I find you get better, read more whacked out, dreams if you get anesthetic through a mask instead of an IV or injection.

Mine always used to revolve blue elephants in space but I think that was because the wallpaper in the surgery room had elephants on it.

[tekkieman]

Damn! When I got my wisdom teeth out, all I got was several locals, and severe stomach cramps from swallowing all the blood all day! Lucky bastard!

[Doramius]

I could have don it without the anesthetic, but I figured if my co-pay is only going to be $50 more to have it done and not remember the whole ordeal, I'm getting put out. I was a bit scared of having oral surgery, but I'm glad I did it.

[tgpo]

I had mine removed a few years back. It was really cool.

I got in the office and they started my IV. They told me to count backwards from 100 to 1. The last I remember was getting to 97. I then woke up in my house 7 hours laster. My mom told me I had gone shopping with her, but I didn't remember it. That night I ate Krystals. They were bloody good (pun intended).

A friend of mine had the same thing done the next day, but his doctor didn't tell him not to spit. A few days later we went to the movies and he spit out the window, busting 3 of his stitches and causing him to bleed all over his shirt.

[Doramius]

A friend of mine had the same thing done the next day, but his doctor didn't tell him not to spit. A few days later we went to the movies and he spit out the window, busting 3 of his stitches and causing him to bleed all over his shirt.

He's lucky he didn't get dry socket after that.

[flaninacupboard]

whats the deal with getting wisdom teeth removed? you don't want them or something?

[pacmania_2001]

They hurt like all shit if you leave them in. Plus I'm smart enough without them. :P

[indolikaa]

Good Lord...

[Doramius]

I wonder how many people here are setting up an appointment to have their Wisdom's removed after reading this?