Tooth pulled
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melcharI 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.]
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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Date: 2008-06-19 03:21 pm (UTC)While I've never had issues with bright light to the point of it leading to migraines, it does take me longer to adjust to sunlight than most folks. So once again, this is a fascinating tidbit to me.
My father, while he specializes in speech pathology, does have a number of swedish colleagues who work with neurological issues. So I've queried him, and perhaps that print source might be found so that I can read it for reference.
Again, much appreciated!