Not a fun day yesterday, but the surgery went well and Michael is on the road to recovery.
I wanted to have the surgery done in the Tucker office but they could get it done quicker if we agreed to drive to Dunwoody, which is not far away. We got to the Dunwoody office of the oral surgeon after a harrowing 10 minutes on I-285 -- I used to drive it every day but nowadays I rarely get on 285 and so I was unaccustomed to it. I crept along in the right lane like an old lady but hey, we arrived ALIVE. [For those not from Atlanta, 285 encircles the city and has about 8-10 lanes, and is known locally as the perimeter, or as I think of it, the Indy 500...]
Before the surgery, Michael urged me to take video of him afterwards, when he was still acting loopy. I did, but it's not all that funny. He kept asking for his teeth -- "I want to see my teeth!" he said, but he had so much gauze in his mouth it was very garbled.
When we got in the car I finally got him to explain. He wanted to be given the teeth they had pulled out of his mouth. I explained that the teeth had probably been thrown out. He was ticked off, at one point threatening to jump out of the car. Thanks God we got home in 13 minutes..
I didn't adopt Michael until he was 10, and by then he had lost all his baby teeth. So he will never have the weird experience I had years ago, as a college student home on break. I opened my mother's jewelry box and found a tiny box containing all my baby teeth. Really weird, seeing those teeth in the box. Some might have been Bruce's teeth. Not sure. Anyway, I persuaded Mom to throw them out..
I digressed.
I was amazed that I only had to sit in the waiting room about an hour, and in that time they extracted 4 impacted teeth. I read two People Magazines and played about 20 Words with Friends games on my phone while waiting..
Michael slept most of the day yesterday, and this morning had quite a lot to say, complaining about how much it hurt to eat. I got him to drink a glass of milk and then he returned to bed.
I did something I rarely do, bought tons of ice cream and pudding and Stouffer's Fettucine Alfredo, so he can slurp up soft non-chewy foods..
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