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Extraction
After some complications last night with a pork chop in a sweet mango and ginger confit I made an emergency appointment with my dentist for this afternoon. He'd done a sterling job on repairing the front four that were in a rather grim state of decay and extracted the top left wisdom tooth.
The top right wisdom tooth had been salvaged but apparently all it takes is one good bite of a pork chop to put paid to that. There was a risk the tooth had snapped below the gumline and would be as impossible to extract as U.S. hostages in Tehran. Knowing already that there would be injections and pliers and possible weeping I went along anyway.
The dentist didn't even bother with the "you might feel a little prick" joke. The tooth wasn't broken and came out as easily as something embedded at the back of your skull can with only the slightest hint of a cracking sound. I was actually quite relieved at how painless the whole thing was.
So that's two wisdom teeth removed in two months. I'm 50% down on my wisdomyness. You can expect the content around here to be subsequently dumbed down accordingly.
To cheer myself up I went and bought a 2-disc Best Of Magnum P.I. DVD and sat on the couch with a rubber chicken and a gun, sucking water through a straw.
May.11.2004