Sophie’s Back!
I’ve been gone for a few weeks (as many of you have noticed) due to illness and general bad stuffs happening. A month ago, one of my wisdom teeth became really sore (some of you who visited my chat room probably saw me talking about it). I didn’t really pay much attention to the problem until it got so sore that my jaw swelled and was in even greater pain. This led to me pretty much vanishing initially because I was in so much pain and it looked so bad that I couldn’t do very much.
My friends urged me to see a dentist who determined that I had an infection in the wisdom tooth and in all it’s benevolent wisdom, the tooth decided to share the infection with my jaw. Now, had i waited any longer, this could have had some pretty serious consequences. Fortunately, it was attended to in time, but the doctor couldn’t operate until I took two weeks worth of antibiotics. Since I’m allergic to penicillin, this was less pleasant than it could have been for most people. During most of those two weeks I was on antibiotics and pain killers which made me very nauseous and fuzzy headed. I don’t even remember many parts of those two weeks other than things related to the space shuttle and space station activities (I think I druggie-messaged addy a few times, hopefully I didn’t say anything too far out there). I finally had the offending tooth removed last Thursday (3/26/09), but in the process of removing my tooth, my jaw muscles on the left side of my face were strained. (Before the procedure, the dentist expressed a concern over the small possibility of my jaw breaking because my mouth is so small). Recovering from strained muscles in my face was really worse than recovering from the tooth removal and the aching didn’t really stop until just a couple days ago.
The other major thing that has been going on is that my dad’s house was foreclosed on so for the last two days, right after recovering from my tooth issue, I have been helping my dad get all his stuff moved to his new apartment. Now I am sore, but I am happy that with all this behind me, I should be back on cam tomorrow!