Is it a Good Thing When Your Daughter Says to You, “I’m so high”?
Now that I have your attention…
Ashlyn had her wisdom teeth extracted today, all of them. Here’s a nice picture of her in recovery just before she used her cell phone to communicate the above statement to me…
She was quite amusing to me, since she kept explaining how good she felt (through a mouth filled with gauze) and wrote that she felt like Angelina Jolie (I assume her lips were feeling plump - either that or she had delusions that she was going to go home to Brad Pitt. hehe). She even spelled out a few lyrics from James Brown’s “I Feel Good” in between moments of complete stupor. Yes, I saved those post-it note ramblings for posterity too. 
She’s now on the couch, sleeping the drugs off and icing her jaws. Being 17, and a (if I do say so myself) not hideous looking kid, she was pretty concerned about how fat her cheeks looked. I think she looks pretty good for having four wisdom teeth removed and I have to say I’m quite proud of how she went into this day. I asked her if she was scared on the way in to the oral surgeon’s office and she replied that she wasn’t, that she’d be asleep and that it would stop her other teeth from hurting when she eats (as they had been lately). She held my hand as they put her under, and then wanted a hug when they brought me back to their recovery area.
Despite the discomfort I know this is causing her, I’d say she took it like a trooper.
August 8th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
LOL no one told her about the pain after the procedure?
well, i know i didn’t have too much pain and i got all four taken at once.
LOL I’m glad no one took a picture of me when i was in recovery. oy.
Lest you think I’m an evil mom…who do you think told me “You have to blog about this.” and who instructed me to take this picture?
August 8th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Poor Ashlyn.
I had the same thing done at age 16 1/2…I remember being so doped I couldn’t even sign my name before we left the oral surgeons office. Hehe.
I also came out of the recovery room holding a small trash can and screaming for my mother. I woke up a little sooner than expected. Oops.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
I wonder what she’ll say when she sees this photo on your blog? Hope she’s feeling better!
August 9th, 2007 at 12:38 am
I guess it is best to get them all out at the same time. The kid has had a helluva year so far. Let’s hope it’s all smooth sailing from here.
August 9th, 2007 at 7:09 am
hope she is feeling better today….
August 9th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
feel better Ash
though this high thing may make me consider getting the wisdom teeth pulled after all
August 10th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Good for Ash. Next time, can you take a photo of her drooling? If she’s high, she wouldn’t mind.
August 10th, 2007 at 7:21 am
It is so much easier having that done when your are in your teens. My bottom wisdom teeth didn’t start coming in until I was almost 30 and they were wrapped around nerves so I had to have it done emergently and to complicate things even more I have a hard time staying under anesthesia which they found out and I am allergic to all the novocaine, lidocaine, etc. I still have the upper 2 to go yet and I dread that and pray they don’t come in because they wanted to do them all at once and I told them hail no.
August 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Who’s the hottie? - Also, I’m dissapointed in you Mom. Where’s the part about the Grand Canyon? That, by far, was the best thing.