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Post by docone31 on Jan 18, 2005 21:03:57 GMT -5
This is it, this is when the rubber hits the road. My outback adventure in Alaska has finally caught up. All of my teeth have to go. I have already had post surgery dentures made to have directly after surgery. I am not happy, but I will feel better in a couple of weeks.
My teeth all froze in Alaska and they cracked, snapped, and broke off. I have been in pain for over 15yrs. I have a good oral surgeon and he is not too expensive. I will be knocked out for two hours. They have to do an Alveoplasty on my jaw after all the teeth are gone. My lower jaw is already deformed from breaking years ago, and I have TMJ on both sides from prior extractions.
I am not happy and I had to tell somebody.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jan 18, 2005 21:56:28 GMT -5
doc my prayers are with you - when are you doing this?
kim
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Post by docone31 on Jan 18, 2005 22:16:54 GMT -5
Tuesday morning. I should at least be able to work friday at the shop. I have to juggle down time and work at the shop.
It is going to hurt, but at least the oral pain I feel daily will be over. Might even be nice to smile if I haven't forgotten how. It has been almost two decades since I have been able to smile.
I have a great deal of confidance in the surgeon. He got into oral surgery as he had a botched dental job way back when he was a kid.
My knee, which was designed by the surgeon who installed it, he also had a botched knee job on himself. I still have the knee, although I broke it 20yrs ago. It still functions. I just have to reset the knee every morning.
My wife Jenne is losing her mind over it all. She feels better after meeting the surgeon.
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Post by Cher on Jan 19, 2005 0:17:42 GMT -5
I wish you well Doc, you'll be much happier after the pain is gone. Good luck, check back in as soon as you feel up to it.
Cher
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Post by Rose on Jan 19, 2005 6:21:00 GMT -5
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 19, 2005 8:17:14 GMT -5
you have my utmost sympathy there Doc as i hate the concept of going to the dentist more than anything i can think of. i let my teeth go when i was younger and paid the price (literally) later in life with a LOT of dental work. i went for years without smiling too.
take heart as the pain and fear will subside and you will smile again soon. hope all went well.
KD
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Post by sandsman1 on Jan 19, 2005 8:56:22 GMT -5
hey doc your gonna be nervous goin in but when you come out theres gonna be a big weight lifted and your gonna say im so glad thats over shoulda did it long ago no matter how much pain,, everyday it will get less and you will smile alittle bigger---good luck man -- and dont forget to ask for the percaset's hahaha
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Post by hermatite on Jan 19, 2005 16:54:20 GMT -5
Wait...you can't smile? You mean lo these many months I've been giving you my best, weirdest, most smile inducing stuff and...nothing? NOTHING? I had been fooling myself into thinking that, at least, there were the occassional herm induced lopsided grins...but nooooo. I've been laboring under an illusion..joking under false pretenses....spitting out humor into the ether with nary a smirk. Let me know how the surgey goes, man, and I'll tell you my duck joke. EVERYONE laughs at the duck joke (okay...well not really so much *laughs*...more kind of groaning and walking rapidly away...but hey...I ain't fussy!). And on the bright side, I can now add you to the list of people I know who sport falsies. WOOHOO!
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Post by docone31 on Jan 19, 2005 17:46:05 GMT -5
Yeah, it's time has come. I got frozen so badly, my sinus bones came through my right temple.
I spent a great deal of time researching fatal hyperthermia. I shouldn't have survived. My eyes also froze, and I was suprised when they froze open. That is another feature of the freezing I endured.
Ever had fingers get so cold they were near frostbite? Remember the pain when they got warm, and the loss of feeling for a few days? You haven't lived untill you get your eyes frozen. Unlike fingers, you cannot scratch inside your eyes. The erupted sinus cavity bled through my ears for three years.
My teeth had frozen, my tongue had frostbite. I cannot taste my ability to smell is almost nonexistant. My lips, and cheeks had ice on them and cracked leaving scars. My left eye is mostly blind, and my right eye has a floating retina. One day I can see, one day I see nothing but rainbows, one day I can half see.
The nerves in my teeth and gums are hypersensitised. I need to be put out for the procedure.
I went too far with that one.
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 19, 2005 19:15:51 GMT -5
yes, i must agree, if this was an exercise in being Comfortably Numb you went a wee bit overboard on the cold setting.
so are you still recovering, how did the surgery go? is your face all black and blue?
(inquiring rockhounds need to know)
KD
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Post by docone31 on Jan 19, 2005 19:31:46 GMT -5
Next tuesday at 9:00 am. I won't even be able to have my morning pot of coffee before surgery. Phooey.
I married the wrong woman back then. She is my fourth exwife. She married me on an alias. We got to Alaska and she took the money, gems, gold, tools. Oiy, fourth time in a row I got cleaned out.
I had just gotten my Phd., and looked around. People seemed entities different from the rest. When they spoke their heads bobbed up and down and all those words. Not an one added up to anything but social control. The ex, the Phd, homeless for the fourth time. I took a Buck knife General, my denim jacket and walked into the woods east of Anchorage. It was -20 and I did not care. Four years later I came out. I would still be there but I helped a person and he got killed and almost killed me with his stupidity. I had to walk for days in -65 weather with two shirts, sweatshirt and a pair of jeans.
It was either stay and die, or walk and maybe live.
I met Jenne, she wanted to die, I didn't care if I lived or died. Together we rebuilt my business from nothing and it has been six years.
I still do not like people, especially those with halitosis, but we are up and running.
My teeth have to go, and maybe I will not have to live with that pain anymore. Coffee hurts, ice cream hurts, warm soft bread hurts. It has been endless.
Soon. Dentures will suck but it has to be better.
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 19, 2005 19:39:13 GMT -5
OK, next tuesday (the 25th of Jan) we will all have our respective tin foil hats on in your honor, beaming you happy thoughts, calming thoughts, distracting thoughts, man, are YOU gonna have some wild dreams under anesthesia!
good luck,
KD
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Post by docone31 on Jan 19, 2005 19:47:23 GMT -5
Krazy, you and the rest of the gang are the only people I respect.
thanks to you all. I will take that to the surgeon.
I am looking forward to the concert of the electricals!!!!
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