wisdom teeth - still going? what??!?!?
ok.. the recap...
well thought i was on the mend.. but that turn out to be untrue yesterday morning (sat) around 1am... i suddenly felt a little bit more liquid in my mouth that normal and it tasted like blood.. what a suprise it was blood.. and it kept gushing out of my mouth.. similar to the day of the surgery where i had to be rushed in.. i tried to stop the bleeding by putting gauze pads in and applying pressure.. even getting ice packs from the fringe..
nothing.. 30 mins went by and i was still gushing blood and it wasn't stopping... eventually my parents took me to bankstown hospital to emergency where we were told by the nurse they couldnt' do anything for me as it was dental related and would have to come back at 8am.. in the mean time about 1.5 hours had gone past and i was still gushing blood
after we went to my local GP who is a relative and she had a look and tried to stop the bleeding as well for another hour.. no luck.. she tried calling bankstown hosital and westmead to mebbe get me in to see a doctor but both couldn't do nething as it was dental related...
got home and called the dental surgeon aroudn 4am'ish, i was so fortunate that he picked up his mobile at that time of the morning.. he was able to get me into nepean private hospital at that time.. so after a 40 min drive there, got in a saw him (still gushing blood, going pale and what have u)... there he restitched where it was coming from and manage to stop the bleeding...
by this time i had been up for well over 24 hours and the previous night only had like 3 hours sleep.. was sooo tired... i was then put on a drip and in the morning given blood transfusions (4 bags) and all that good stuff to get my blood levels back up and to help with my blood clotting and that (10 bags of this stuff, 4 bags of antibiotics, etc)...
so stayed in the hospital all day sat and most of the day sun.. i was first informed that i'd prolly go home on mon.. but i was fortunate my situation had stablised and they released me this arvo, given that i rest tonight and rest a bit more tomoz... but i should be ok..
far out aye.... another 2 weeks of healing.. and mushy food.. i'm really craving that steak.. subway and nandos now...
thank you to all of you who were and are praying for me and keeping me in your thoughts, it means a lot to me..
now back to healing... :-|
wisdom teeth - post-op consultation (on the mend woo)
well had a post op consultation this morning.. it appears the doc is happy with the progress and that everything is healing fine..
i had a bit of a scare yest at 5am when i woke up and my mouth was filled with blood and when i looked in on my right side i could see a large cut.... mentioned that to the doc and he said the cut was where the tooth was (derr, i'm so stupid) and that the blood was prolly the excess caught in the gap but sealed up by the stitches.. so when they dissolved it all came out.. gross aye.. but makes sense..
sooooo yeh stitches will still be dissolving slowly over the next week or 2 as he said the ones he put in were ones that will take longer due to the excessive bleeding after the operation...
gimme a week or 2 and then i'm going for steak!!!
2 years...
wow.. just realised.. this blog has been going now for 2 years.. (from yest)
pretty funky... nice milestone haha :-P
wisdom teeth - more...
ok.. gradually healing...
swelling has gone down heaps, still a little in my mouth.. stitches are still there slowly dissolving and its still seeping blood.. far out... local GP said not to worry about the little bit of a blood, but its been seeping for over a week now :-(
we'll see wot the dentists says when i go for a post-op consultation next tues..
in other news.. finally got a digital camera, canon ixus 50.. really happy about it, good little camera..for pics (for those on my msn) check out my msn spaces...
wisdom teeth - post-post surgery *sigh*
*sigh*...
everything was going ok till this morning at 5am.. woke up and my mouth tasted like blood, and wot do u know.. there was blood.. a lot of it... went and saw my cousin who's a GP and she diagnosed that the blood was actually coming from the otherside now.. not the wound that had the initial problem....
managed to get in contact with the surgeon who was able to fit me into his schedule to an afternoon appointment, saw him and went wif local anaesthetic, and he re-stiched the other side up... both the surgeon and the nurse couldnt' work out why it would suddenly start bleeding 2 days after surgery.. and then continue without stopping... so they sent me to a pathology clinic down the road to get some blood tests.. after 6 viles of blood and a dead arm, i'm on my way home... right side of my mouth numb, left side of my mouth throbbing in pain.. my arm dead... and really weak...
also got some tablets to help clots and stop the bleeding.. took them.. hopefully they work....
i'm going to go sleep now.. so tired...
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its still bleeding, but not gushing.. little trickles of blood.. so praying the tablets will stop the bleeding and clot the blood...
wisdom teeth - post surgery
just got home at like 8:30pm.. i was there from 10:30am till about 7:30pm.... such a long day.
i got the 4 wisdom teeth out.... after surgery it looked ok and i was set to go home at around 3:30-4pm... but then something happened....
(warning: slightly graphic)
i was talking to my mum, and she was like quick get some tissues, there was blood.. a lot of blood coming out of my mouth and pouring down onto my clothes, they quickly got one of the nurses who came to have a look and it appears that 1 or more of my wounds inside my mouth may be oozing blood (which is normal). they got me to bite down on these cloth things to hopefully clot the bleeding... 20 mins later she came back and had a look, and it was still gushing blood, following this she wheeled me back to the pre-op section so the surgeon could take a look.
1 of the wounds was continually gushing blood, it wasn't clotting properly so he sucked up a lot of the blood and got me to bite down on another piece of cloth to see if that would stop the bleeding, 30 mins went by and the doc and nurse came back to check... i overheard one nurse say that i had become really pale and was losing a lot of blood, so they quickly rushed me back into surgery to re-stitch the wound back up... apparently it wasn't the gum bleeding, but the bone.. i was bleeding from the bone (jaw) which apparently is not suppose to happen...
so after surgery (part 2) i was out and now back home.. and this time not bleeding...(i dont thnk).. my face is strapped up with an ice pack, and its still pretty numb as they had to sedate and numb me again for the 2nd surgery....
i was really quite scared when i was going in again for the 2nd surgery, i kept praying so that i would be kept safe... and i know some of you had me on your thoughts and in your prayers, which comforted me greatly....
one special thank you needs to go out to a certain someone.. thank you so much for constantly sms'ing me back when i had a chance after the surgeries to sms you... it meant a lot to me and a tremendous comfort that you were still there for me (even though not physically), and thank u again for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers.... thank u so much...
now its just a matter of healing, and having a post-op consultation half way through next week to check that everything is healing correctly....
time to sit in bed (where i am now) and watch dvd's, chat and blog :-)
