My wisdom-tooth-ordeal has progressed thusly:
-pain and big-time swelling
-getting better
-swelling almost gone with slight tenderness
-sudden, left-lower jaw swelling with savage doubled-over-"i'll-beat-you-if-you-touch-me" pain resulting in a trip to the local ER at 5am
-spontaneous appointment with local maxillo-facial surgeon who treats me the way I wish the ER staff treated me (by this I mean "competently")
-getting to hear a surgeon say . . .
"If you had gotten here 24 hours later, I'd want to admit you."
"potentially life-threatening infection"
-learning first-hand that there are some kinds of pain that percocet can't fucking touch
-swelling gone, but sublime pain still present
-minor surgical procedure where a bunch of granulation tissue was removed, thereby knocking out most of the pain by taking pressure off of a nerve
-tolerable tenderness in the jaw when I eat
Hopefully, things will return to normal in the next few weeks.
In other news, I have finally gotten to deliver a baby. SO. FUCKING. COOL.
Also, I have witnessed a three circumcisions and performed three. I still don't like this practice, however there are a few instances in which it is medically necessary so I want to learn how to do it.
I am on my pediatrics rotation, but I have been "adopted" by an OB/GYN attending who is determined to make me an OB/GYN. In his words, "I know talent when I see it." That made me feel really damn good.
On a related note, I am considering switching from Emergency Medicine to OB/GYN. I wish I'd met this guy before I had my such a bad experience with my OB/GYN rotation. I haven't made up my mind yet, just tossing around the idea at this point.
I recently had the opportunity to take a PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) course. Think shock paddles, CPR, artificial ventilation, fluid replacement, and drugs that bring people back from "mostly dead."
Post a comment, dammit. Yes, I'm talking about you.
-pain and big-time swelling
-getting better
-swelling almost gone with slight tenderness
-sudden, left-lower jaw swelling with savage doubled-over-"i'll-beat-you-if-you-touch-me" pain resulting in a trip to the local ER at 5am
-spontaneous appointment with local maxillo-facial surgeon who treats me the way I wish the ER staff treated me (by this I mean "competently")
-getting to hear a surgeon say . . .
"If you had gotten here 24 hours later, I'd want to admit you."
"potentially life-threatening infection"
-learning first-hand that there are some kinds of pain that percocet can't fucking touch
-swelling gone, but sublime pain still present
-minor surgical procedure where a bunch of granulation tissue was removed, thereby knocking out most of the pain by taking pressure off of a nerve
-tolerable tenderness in the jaw when I eat
Hopefully, things will return to normal in the next few weeks.
In other news, I have finally gotten to deliver a baby. SO. FUCKING. COOL.
Also, I have witnessed a three circumcisions and performed three. I still don't like this practice, however there are a few instances in which it is medically necessary so I want to learn how to do it.
I am on my pediatrics rotation, but I have been "adopted" by an OB/GYN attending who is determined to make me an OB/GYN. In his words, "I know talent when I see it." That made me feel really damn good.
On a related note, I am considering switching from Emergency Medicine to OB/GYN. I wish I'd met this guy before I had my such a bad experience with my OB/GYN rotation. I haven't made up my mind yet, just tossing around the idea at this point.
I recently had the opportunity to take a PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) course. Think shock paddles, CPR, artificial ventilation, fluid replacement, and drugs that bring people back from "mostly dead."
Post a comment, dammit. Yes, I'm talking about you.
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and i do think you'd make a great ob/gyn. especially when you're sweet to people.
xo
I hope your poor little mouth is feeling better
Kisses