only half as smart as i was this morning

Just got home from pulling two wisdom teeth (right side) so I'm messing around on the computer until the Novocaine wears off.

Some thoughts about the process:

1. That huge needle they use to inject you with Novocaine is just as scary when you're 24 as when you're 10.
2. I have big ass teeth. Not just big teeth. Big ass teeth.
3. And a small ass jaw. Not just a small jaw. A small ass jaw, which made it exceedingly difficult for my dentist to get in there with all her scary dentist gadgets and yank those suckers out. She estimated an hour, but I was in the chair getting multiple Novocaine injections for an hour and forty-five minutes.
4. It's still cool to keep your teeth. I did. And posted pictures on Facebook. And Twitter.
5. I always did enjoy poking my numb face and moving my numb tongue around in my mouth;
6. The go-to food of request for me is still Campbell's chicken and stars soup. It's chicken noodle soup with tiny star-shaped noodles that are easy to swallow whole.
7. I am still traumatized from childhood teeth pulling during my pre-braces years. It was freaking scary, but I'm glad that my dentist didn't have to crack any of my teeth during extraction. That sound just freaks me the fuck out.
8. At one point, I didn't close my lips over the spit sucker thingy propery and got blood and drool all over the place. That is why they make you wear those plastic-lined bibs.

I anticipated a quick recovery even if we had planned on pulling all four wisdoms today (no guts, no glory!), but I wonder if it'll be more painful since she was in there for two hours rummaging around to get the teeth loose? We held off on the other extractions since the right side was taking so long and my bottom left molar isn't fully out yet so my dentist didn't want to have to do any slicing and dicing to get at it.