Tooth pulled

[melchar]

I am missing a tooth now. By 'missing' replace with: 'face hurts, huge gaping hole in back of jaw, WHY O genetics do you deprive me of pain medicine relief**'.

Humorous story tho: the jaw specialist explains tiny chance of saving tooth, so I say 'pull it'; he does & the tooth comes out so very fast that it squirts away from forceps. The tooth bounces off of my chest and rebounds right back into my open mouth. Lots of 'OMG, don't swallow that!' and he fishes it back out, saying THAT never had happened to him ever before.

[** = apparently there is a Scandinavian recessive gene that deprives those with it from having opiate receptors, so there are virtually no pain killers that work for me.]

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[melchar.livejournal.com]

[nods] I had one once. ^_^ 30 years ago, when I had my wisdom teeth out - and shortly thereafter has a tooth abscess that just about took my head off, I was prescribed 'Zomax' [a non-opiate pain blocker] that was perfect: stopped pain & no side effect.

But it caused anaphylactic shock to those allergic to bee venom - killed some people - and was taken off the market. [sighs]