Not as much pain as I expected

I've been told by some of my friends that day two of having your wisdom teeth out is the absolute worst because this is when the numbness stops and the pains sets in. Uh, I woke up to no pain. Win! And I don't even look that swollen or bruised.

Anywho, once I was up, I made some breakfast. I decided to finish up my eggs and had three egg whites with one whole egg.

I also made some oatmeal that I started making this week. It was pretty yummy. I think I've definitely decided I like the vanilla better.

Then I headed off to see Harry Potter 7, Part 2. I must say that though the last movie was the epitome of awesome, I left it feeling sad because there will be no more films. Oh, J.K. Rowling. You should've made the series longer!


After the movie, I came home, changed into my swimsuit, and headed over to my mom's house to lay out in/by the pool and read. On my way, I grabbed another smoothie from my favorite smoothie place and was all set for a nice afternoon by the pool rereading the first Harry Potter (the UK version) and eating my smoothie with a spoon:

After about 2 hours outside, I started getting hungry for real food, so I went inside and made some potstickers because I figured they'd be soft enough to eat.

They were pretty yummy. And so was dinner!

Sloppy Joe meat, zucchini

And Malena made the awesome Red Losteresque biscuits again tonight. They weren't as awesome as before, but they were still delicious nonetheless. I know a few of you want the recipe, but I can't give it to you because I never want to know it so I don't have the ability to make them myself. Sorries - I've gotta take the preventative measures!

I ate 3 of these...whoops. They were so easy to eat though!

After dinner, my mom, sister, and I played Skip-Bo while I munched on some watermelon.

Oh, and I won again! Woot! And after dinner, we watched IronMan 2. It was just as corny as I'd predicted, but I'm partial to explosions and poorly-written plots, so, basically, it was excellent!


After the movie, I headed back home to chat with some friends and write about my day. I also needed to lay out some of my exercise plans for next week today so I can hold myself accountable.


Last week, I mostly half-assed everything. I didn't get up in the morning at all to work out and I kinda went through the motions instead of really engaging myself. I want to blame it on hormones, but I know I could've powered through it had I really wanted to. So, tomorrow it's back to the gym!


I'm going to start with an easy day and just do some basic cardio. Monday morning I will head to the gym to do some heart rate cycling (depending on how I'm feeling teeth-wise - the motion could honestly be a bit jarring). Tuesday and Wednesday I will do a morning workout/heart rate cycling and a session with Mark. Thursday I will do a morning workout and an evening workout and Friday I will only do a morning workout. Saturday and Sunday, I'm going to be in Auburn Hills with Lisa for a wedding, so we're planning on working out, but I'm not entirely sure on the details. The point is that I'm going to get back to it. I want to be at 207 (one pound less than my lowest recorded weight) by August 20. I know I can do it!

Hope you don't need wisdom to be a doctor cuz then I'm screwed

After staying up late last night just to celebrate the fact that I didn't have to go to work this morning, I woke up at about 9:45. I was not too pumped about going to have my wisdom teeth taken out because a lot of my friends thought it would be awesome to tell me horror stories about it. Note to said friends: not awesome. So, I got ready for the day, didn't eat anything, and met my mom at 10:45 downstairs to go to Sagnasty for my surgery.


Once I was in the room and all hooked up, I asked the doctor to give me as little of any sedative/loopy drug as possible because I didn't like feeling loopy/out of it. Then, as a bonus, he gave me a drug at the end to reverse the effects of the loopy stuff so that I could be competent again. Good. So, here are some pics:

Pre-surgery 

Immediately after - mmm, bloody gauze

My mom took me back to her house after the surgery (after a pit-stop at my apartment to grab a few things) and on the way bought me a large smoothie at my favorite smoothie place. Woot. She also bought me some soft foods to eat for the next few days since my stockpile of yogurt and soup was probably not enough.


When I got home, I decided I would go upstairs and take a nap. I took Arthur (my computer) with me and found an e-mail from MSU telling me that I could switch to the Grand Rapids campus (from the East Lansing campus, the campus to which I was originally assigned). As this was what I originally wanted, I was pumped. But then I realized that I was pretty much already all set to move to East Lansing. As in, I already had the apartment, already made the UHaul reservation, and already became accustomed to hating where I was going to live for the next two years. But, after talking to a few people, I figured screw it. This is what I wanted in the first place and I'm not going to throw away this opportunity. So I began the tedium of calling up places to find apartments and will be seeing 10 apartments in Grand Rapids on Monday. Yikes! I also canceled my lease with the East Lansing place and ended up not napping at all.


For dinner, I had a Lean Cuisine macaroni and cheese my mom got me. I basically swallowed the noodles whole because it's hard to chew, and as I learned in my anatomy class, chewing is pretty unnecessary.


After dinner, we played Skip-Bo (and I won) and then I hung out for a bit until my mom decided I was fit to go home and spend the night by myself. When I got home, I was still hungry (probably because a smoothie, a yogurt, and a Lean Cuisine isn't exactly filling), so I made myself another Lean Cuisine.

It was pretty yummy. I also pretty much swallowed those whole because biting was a struggle. And since I had my camera out, I decided to snap another picture of me in recovery:

You can tell the left side of my mouth is still a bit numb...

I don't have any bruising or swelling. Looks like having your wisdom removed is pretty much a piece of cake after all.


Tomorrow I'm going to see the last part of Harry Potter in the morning. I'm told I'm going to be in a lot of pain, but I'm going to stick to tylenol so I can drive and be the self-sufficient 24-year-old I'm meant to be!


Have you had your wisdom teeth out? How was your recovery?