wisdom teeth extraction recovery
I finally got my upper two wisdom teeth out. It's been overdue for literally years now, cavities in each eating from the inside out until they were virtually hollow. I don't know how they didn't just crumble and break, and they didn't hurt or feel sensitive. With less than a week to an eighteen hour flight with a one-year-old, and being out of the country for a month, now was hardly the best time to do this. Yet the fear of dental work in Malaysia, if they should crack on me, was terrifying enough to rush getting them out today.
kellymom has some great resources on http://www.kellymom.com/health/illness/dentalwork.html . Following that, I pumped and saved some milk (even though Spice isn't thrilled with bottles), and we talked to the oral surgeon about our general anaesthesia and post-op painkiller options. I tanked her up before we left and pump-and-dumped this evening. So far, so good. For recovery, I'm basically on liquids. I tried some thick hummus, but the effort of moving it around mouth kept causing some suction on one side where I have a hole to my sinuses, so I have to be extra careful not to get things stuck there or dislodge the blood clot forming. I made some yummy gazpacho, but it had a few coarse bits of cilantro, tomato, etc. that I didn't trust to eat yet for the same reasons. So "dinner" was two cups of creamy garlic chicken soup from a carton, and a few spoonfuls of vegan chocolate pudding that was also too thick for comfort but sooo good. :-) I read somewhere that the bromelain in pinapple juice was really good for healing mouth wounds. Pineapple juice is very acidic, though, and I imagine it would be painful on an open wound. I added 1/4 cup of light coconut milk to a glass of it and stirred it up to a cold, creamy fresh drink. Mmmm, yummy! Tomorrow, I'll probably try blending some oat milk, rolled oats and honey to drink and have the gazpacho for lunch. I'm also wondering what pureed pho or oxtail soup would taste like... might just have to try it!
