Mommy's Wisdom Tooth

I was always told I had only wisdom tooth and it was so far that I didn't need to worry about getting it taken out. Well, it moved. It came in. 

A few weeks ago I felt like what I thought was a piece of popcorn or something in the back of my mouth. I thought it would just work itself out. The feeling never went away and one day I looked far back there to see what the problem was and I saw a tooth! I looked on the other side and there was no tooth in the way way back. It wasn't horribly painful but just felt like something stuck in the back of my mouth and it was pushing against my other tooth.

I made an appt to see the ortho surgeon and he told me it was in fact my wisdom tooth and it needed to be taken out. I was super nervous because I had heard it hurt and the recovery was painful. Plus I'm older now and don't heal as quickly. I guess the silver lining in the whole thing is I only have one wisdom tooth. 

So yesterday, I went in to get it extracted. Fred worked from home and watched Macie while I went into the office. I got some laughing gas as well as local anesthetic. I'm glad I requested laughing gas since it helped me relax a lot. I was really really nervous. The actual removing of the tooth took less than 1 minute... not even kidding! It was crazy fast and just felt like tugging. After when I started to get feeling back was the worst. Afterwards we immediately went to get my medication. I'm taking an antibiotic and some pain medication. Then Fred drove me home and I slept for a few hours. He picked up the kids, helped with homework and I ended up making some noodles for dinner.

I had soup, jello, applesauce and mashed potatoes the rest of the day since it hurt to eat, open my mouth, talk and all I could taste was blood. It still hurts to talk and eat but it's getting better. Tonight I was able to eat some small pieces of soft bread. It felt good to finally have a solid. I also have been doing salt water rinses which are disgusting but I don't want to get any infection or anything lodged in the space. But my face/jaw overall just hurts. 

I can't imagine dealing with this x4! It's horrible! But hopefully this will be the last tooth I'll ever have to get pulled. I've now had 9 teeth pulled! Thankfully the others where when I was really young and I don't remember them. Hopefully I am fully healed by the end of the week! All the kids were super worried about me and asked me how I felt when they got home. It was very sweet. Asher made me a card too. It says, "I hope you feel better". It made me tear up. Daddy took a picture of him and Macie while they waited for me which made me feel better too. I also took a before and after. I think it's pretty obvious which one is which. And I snuck a picture of my X-ray. Dang that tooth!