Today John stay’s home with me - yippee. But at 2pm we had to take him to get all his wisdom teeth out so not much fun for him.

He didn’t go under general (was going to cost another over a thousand dollars more!) but had some other fancy drug that means he wasn’t all there for the procedure. He couldn’t eat after 10am so we got up this morning and made him a big greasy breakfast, then he stuffed a banana, a chocolate yogurt and lollies into his gob before his time was up.

We had a relaxing afternoon on the couch watching movies to keep his mind off things before we had to go.

Only took 20 minutes and he was out. The dentist said it was the easiest one he has done. John has no recollection of the procedure. I hate to say it but he was oh so funny - high as a kite! He sat for about half an hour to make sure he didn’t bleed and kept asking me what was happening. The walk to the car was interesting - he was more interested in staring at passers by and cars than walking.

We are home now, and so far so good. I am happy to say that it seems to be much less of a drama than we were expecting (touch wood).

Update (next day): For any of you that are interested John is doing much better now. Very little pain but he is throwing up. I rung the dentist after the third time and it turns out a large part of the population have that reaction to codeine. So we have stopped that - hopefully it works!

Filed under: Ramblings by Louie Date 29 August, 2008