Cindy Lou Who

For all of you who don't know I had to have surgery. Nothing to serious but needless to say it is not something I ever want to go through again.

Reason why I had to have surgery (besides the fact that my mouth is dumb):

I had an infection that was eating away at my bone. I then had to go to a specialist and see what my options were. He gave me three:

1. ignore the problem and in a few years the infection would eat away more bone until eventually my teeth fell out.

2. pull out my two teeth that were causing the problem.

3. have surgery.

Naturally I went with option 3.

After going through option 3 I regretted jumping to a decision so quickly. This is what i had to go through. (For those of you who don't want to know the details skip to the end.)

What they did was cut my gum and flip it up so that it exposed the bone underneath. They then had to scrap the bone to get the infection out, then stitch me back up. Sounds easy enough. But let me tell you sitting in a chair for two hours, with no headphones or anything to distract me was less then pleasant. In the middle of the surgery I made the mistake of opening my eyes. To my shock I saw the doctors hands covered in blood. MY BLOOD! yeah I didn't open my eyes again. Then at the end of the procedure he pressed on my gums really hard to get the excess blood out of my gums. There is nothing more terrifying in my mind then tasting your own blood. I broke down as soon as I left the doctors office. Honestly that was about the worst of it. On the first day every time i smiled my mouth would start to bleed a little but it wasn't to bad.

So why name this post Cindy Lou Who? Well after the surgery my face swelled, as was to be expected, since all the work was done on my front upper teeth my top lip swelled. upon looking at myself I realised had i lived in Who ville ( How the Grinch stole Christmas) I would have fit right in!