Pointlessness

ZOMG. Today was my wisdom tooth operation. I did not know how to walk round the CBD area when I was out of Raffles Place MRT Station, so I roamed about lost, and was about 1/2 an hour late for the appointment. LOL. I even called the receptionist to ask for directions.

Upon reaching the place, at first in an office building, I was like… “Where could it be?” Then suspiciously I walked down one of the two corridors and there was a very nicely decorated place, and true enough it was the dental clinic.

I took a seat, and on the widescreen plasma TV, was playing STARDUST. So to while away the time I sat there glued to the TV. Soon it was my turn to go in. First was the X-Ray of my mouth.

Standard procedure – wear the leaded apron thingy, stand at the machine, place your jaw on the rest, bite onto this plastic piece, then on the machine and the machine will scan round your head. Short process; it took around 5 minutes I think. Then I waited for the operation to be done.

Operation time. At first I thought,”Oh okay, I don’t think it should be that scary. I think it should be just like plucking out a tooth, just like the tooth extraction for the braces.” Then, I WAS WRONG, TOTALLY WRONG. At first they were like,”Okay, so the tooth that is causing you trouble is the lower right one right?” and so on. It did not seem the slightest bit scary.

Then the anaesthetic jab came, in roughly 3-4 shots from one syringe and another 3-4 jabs from yet another syringe. The first jab was the most painful one. I hate it when they pierce, wiggle about to fine the spot to inject, then you feel the liquid slowly going in. It sends shivers down my spine. I totally cringed and tensed my body whilst not moving my head and not tense my mouth’s muscles, in case anything bad happens.

Then they asked me to sign the declaration form and asked if we wanted to apply for the use of medisave to pay for a portion of the bill using it… Yada yada yada…

THEN, THE SCARY PART CAME. I thought it would be normal where you could see the dentist taking the tools and all, BUT! IT DID NOT HAPPEN THAT WAY! The first scare came to me when the assistant put a night mask on my head, covering my eyes, and I thought to myself that like OMG is it that bad that they don’t allow me to see the thing being done?

Then, without saying much after, she just told me that don’t be afraid if I hear some drilling sound. And I was like, drilling? Normal right? Not that bad right? Without much preparation, sounds of “drilling” likened to the sound of people using the metal cutter to cut through sheets of metal resounded in my ears. All I could do was picture the sight of construction workers cutting sheets of metal and spraks flying everywhere.

The part berfore this was not as bad. Everything was numb and all, but I believe that they used something slice open the gum so that it is easier for them to take out the tooth. Also what was disgusting was the fluid that splattered everywhere. It tasted rather salty, almost like blood, and I could imagine them being yellow and all, and some splattered on my other half of the tongue which wasn’t numb and I could taste it. Ew.

Then after drilling, she told me,”You’ll be hearing some cracking noise, if you hear them don’t be scared okay?” I was thinking cracking… hm… I guess it is like what Bryan told me about wisdom tooth extraction where they would break the tooth into little parts to be taken out.

I did hear some cracking, and they were so forceful I felt as if my jaw was going to be dislodged anytime, and I had to put in some effort to maintain the position of my jaw. I felt like I was an animal at the vet being mangled and brutally tortured by dentists. I don’t really know what happened, but there were short sharp pains in the gum that I could feel and I thought it was the dentist pushing the tooth into my gum, trying to do some maneuver to pull the tooth out. But the point was that I felt pain which I wasn’t supposed to feel being under anaesthetic, and I thought the effects were wearing off, and that scared the hell out of me. My body was so tensed and I felt my body turn cold, and being conscious of the tensing, I kept having to calm myself down and relax only to find myself being really tensed again by the time I realise I was tensing like a moment later.

Then everything stopped. I thought it was FINALLY over, the torture, the trauma, the shock, the pain, but I was apprehensive as the night mask wasn’t removed yet. Then as soon as I thought of that, they came back and it was time to stitch the wound.

With no warning at all, something pierced my tongue it felt pain, really pain, and all I could do was to make funny noises so as to minimise the probability of the needle which I think it was to fall into my throat, and yet still get the attention of the dentist. It was so near my uvula that I felt like gacking. They quickly removed the needle and started stitching. I could feel the thread in my mouth. Then they said I was done, and they removed the night mask and I was exposed to light.

Finally, the trauma was over. Over. over…

Then the dentist gave me my tooth and it looked like this:

Then I went to pay for the operation, only to find out it was $866.70! OMG! When I heard that I was like… WTH?! Take out tooth also so expensive. The extraction was $770. The X-ray and medication is $70+. Then there still is GST I think. I only had $200 with me and I was like,”Oh, I don’t have money to pay now.” Then in the end I called my dad to come down to foot the bill. Madness. Now my jaw is worth thousands, $5000+ from braces, $866.70 from extraction of wisdom tooth, and if my lower left jaw’s tooth poses a problem too, I would have to extract that (it is coming out by the same orientation of the one that I extracted today), and that would be another $770. OMG. My jaw is one expensive jaw. Imagine still got the retainers that I have and the future dentures… Money being thrown away… Haix.

Then after that traumatic experience I went to Sam Ho’s house to meet the rest. At first it was okay, just very numb, after that, OMG, the numbness was fading and when it did…. OMG! IT HURT LIKE HELL! It was pain la….. OMG OMG. It was pure torture of pain. What I needed was a very nice serene place to relax and forget about the pain, but the BBs were around and LOTS of noise was created and I totally was in total agony.

And when I came back from my toilet break from Tsubasa Chronicles, Daryl and Kah Wei were on my couch and I didn’t want to take Sam Ho’s seat since she sat there before already. So I had to sit on the floor subjected to sounds from anime, noise from people, the hard wooden floor, the rainy weather, the coldness from the air-con and the rain from outside. It was like being naked in a prison cell after being tortured and caned, sitting only the floor and it is snowing outside, and being drenched after being dunked repeatedly in ice-cold water. The experience was horrid. And I being unable to eat anything, was just staring at them enjoy their sumptious lunch… I was like being in purgatory (well, I assume so; I’ve never been in purgatory so I wouldn’t know).

Then we went brewing, and I selpt for apparently 1 hour before we left the house. I guess I was too tired. I was so bloody tired, outside was so bloody cold, and the bus was EVEN COLDER! OMG. I almost turned into a popsicle.

At Brew I had to eat the food with only the left side of my mouth, though inevitably some food went to the right side and I had to carefully use my tongue to get the food out. I ate my share of Fish and Chips and leftovers of Priscilla’s Dory Crisp Spaghetti, and some of Sam Ho’s Dory Crisp Spaghetti and some squid of Kah Wei’s Seafood Platter.

Went home by Sam Ho’s dad’s car, felt so bad after the many times of getting a lift after brewing. Anyways, got home, and basically just started typing this so yea.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I cannot practice on this Saturday 15/3/2008 because I have the stitches and I can’t even do gargling whats more intensive band practice. So yea, I need to call Ronald on that to tell him.

Yep that’s all. I’ll go slp now. Really tired. Tomorrow is homework day + tuition. hope I manage to finish all homework tomorrow, if not I’m SO dead. Goodnight!

P.S. Found this:

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