I was supposed to be there at 8:15 am... but we got there at 8:50 am thanks to mom, wrong directions and evil traffic.

Then we waited til 9:50 ++ to be entertained because we were late, so we got moved down.

Dr. Joseph Macasiray is a very well-known, efficient and highly professional orthodontist. He hums when he works, which strangely made me feel better about the teeth he was yanking out of my gums, and the drill he was jackhammering my teeth out with. He also shows utmost care at wherever he was working on, asking if it hurt here, and described exactly what you were supposed to be hearing or feeling so that you don't get surprised when you feel/hear something. No wonder mom was adamant about having him as an orthodontist for me.

OH MY GOD, I HAVE FEELING BACK IN MY LIPS! Well actually just one part of the left side. Everything is numb and unmovable. Let me tell ya, it's the most disorienting thing not to feel your lower lip when you eat. I had so much porridge on my lower lip because it was all numb.

Wisdom Teeth Extraction = not a pretty process.

There was a LOT of blood.

Anyway. So he rubbed some anesthetic paste on my gums first before injecting, and it mostly didn't hurt, until he got to the outermost sides, which had no paste. Bite of an ant my ass, mom.

So then he starts on my left side. Throughout the operation, I was constantly reminded to open my mouth. It kept involuntarily closing because it was painful to keep it stretched with the anesthesia.

So he started drilling and yanking, and cutting my tooth up before removing it from my mouth.
The left side was mostly fine.

But when he got to the right side, apparently, the tooth was much larger than it should have been. So he drilled some more, which he assumed from the sudden jerk I made, was extremely painful. So he injected MORE anesthesia. Just great.

So he cuts and drills even more, but nothing seems to be working, and several times, the annoying nurse woman kept shoving the suction-hose down my throat, which would cause me to gag, which would cause Dr. Macasiray to jump. He tells her not to point it at my throat (although I thought that would've been fairly obvious.) and continues. Then with the forceps, he clamps at the offending tooth and did unnamable things to pull it out. The right side of my lips and mouth feels stretched. Ouch.

At one point, when one of the male nurses had to hold my head from behind me so Dr. Macasiray could yank and drill to his heart's content, I just realized the hilarity of the situation and began guffawing, much to the everyone's dismay. Oh, and by the way, mom's hand on my ankle at the other end of the chair was supremely, effing annoying. So afterwards, he placed some sutures and I was all set to go.

I CAN FEEL THE LEFT SIDE OF MY MOUTH.

I pushed some gauze into my mouth, changed it, then had mom carry all my stuff out the door. I went to the CR to inspect how I looked. Just great--hair was a mess, mouth was swollen (already), eyes were tired and i had blood on most parts of my face. Yeah, I recall it spurting out of my mouth in Dr. Macasiray's tug of war for the tooth with my gums.

Owie.

I've been making several failed attempts to staunch the blood all morning until I finished my lugaw-lunch, had mom come home and endorse my medicine to me, and then finally give me the 云南白藥, hun nam be^ iyo^, (白藥 is a class of medicine that stops blood flow and treats wounds, bruises, hemorrhages, etc...) so I could dab some on my gauze and shove it in my mouth.

Now that stuff is highly effective, if not a bit bitter. It reduced my gauze from super bloody to a faint orange tint.

All in thirty minutes.

Wow. One more set of 云南白藥-ed gauze ensured i was no longer bleeding. So now I'm making this entry, and only my tongue, a section of my lower-lip and my teeth can feel.

And I'm gonna have to do this again in a year for the upper set of teeth. I hate life.

And when I speak, it's all slurred, and I can bite down on my lip as hard as i like and a) i'm not drawing blood and b) i can't feel a thing.

And this area between my chin and my lower lip seems to have anesthesia in it, which explains why it's all numb and squishy. Like botox, I would imagine, or silicone.

I can't smile or make facial expressions without my teeth and lips hurting. Oh pain. Oh agony. Oh woe is me.

Okay, that's all. Hope you people never have to have wisdom teeth removed. Pray that your mouths are large enough.