Monday morning I woke up with the left side of my face puffy and the last remaining Wisdom tooth inflamed. Yep I still had one left that I used to hang a bridge on.. wow that almost sounds architectural doesn't it? Anyway after making several phone calls to my dentist, I roughly put together an emergency dental tooth extraction for that afternoon.
By the time I got there the office was filled with the 20 something generation getting their wisdom extracted before school started.. which is happening soon :) eeks
Evidently I had forgotten about tooth extraction and all the yucky stuff that goes with it. Dr Smith, a young man with a great smile, behind the layers of masks and gloves, thoroughly numbed the area and then put two giant needles worth of novacaine around the Wisdom tooth and it came out .. crack. That is when things got rough.
I headed over to Fort Belvoir, feeling numb, no pain yet, when I walked in the pharmacy was implementing yet ANOTHER new system, this time,, creating a line,, to get into the pharmacy line. And they are no fools, behind the counter of the new line, handing out the tickets to get into the REAL line, was the sweetest little old grandmotherly looking lady with white hair and a genuine smile on her face with a jacket that was labeled
AMERICAN RED CROSS, indicating that she was a volunteer. Not even the gruffest old soldier had one word to say about the length of BOTH lines now being generated. The pharmacists were loving it, because now if the length of time it took to get through the line was doubled, well blame the 80 year American Red Cross volunteer. Ok Step One: I finally got up to the counter, and handed her my ID and both prescriptions, still feeling Ok, one was for antibiotics the other was for percocet, which I really didn't think I would need (WRONG) and she handed it to another lady, who I had never seen before and said, "She will put the prescriptions in the system for you," by now I would have already been protesting, because I never had given any prescriptions to the TICKET check in place before, so I knew this was a foreboding for the next serious of clusterboinks.. LOL that happened.
I sit down, patiently, numbness starting to wear off, and I see my number called 211,, come to the window. The pharmacist whom I do recognize, says, and what else did you get? I said, Amoxicillan and Percocet. She looked at my swelling face and said there is no Percocet here. I looked back over there at the innocent looking 80 year American Red Cross volunteer, tears started to come to my eyes, from the pain and the feeling that I wanted to run over there and grab the ticket dispenser. :) and said "She said the other lady would enter it."
The pharmacist walked around, and I clearly heard the so called other pharmacist, (they said she was fill in pharmacist, yea right.. handing out tickets) say, "Oh, I haven't put that one in yet."
So I ended up being held in line for an extra FIVE people, swelling mouth and while I was waiting there, after not eating all day, I read the instructions for the "extraction of a wisdom tooth", which included dire warnings about NOT eating, rinsing or drinking anything other than carbonated water for at least 8 hours. WOW and making sure to keep the "gauze in the socket" or I will get "dry socket" HOLY MOLY, now they tell me.
Driving home, staring at the prescriptions in the bag I started seriously wondering about how was I going to cope with this.
When I got in the door I immediately find my mineral water and pop the antibiotic and Percocet, and in 20 minutes I am feeling better except for localized pain around the "socket" area. Entertaining myself on the computer for about two hours, my stomach started growling and I started foraging through the fridge for food.
LO AND BEHOLD a fully ripened fresh Avocado in the bin, that I had just bought..
Yep so in conclusion here is the Website for California Avocados, and when I get back from the store I will post the recipe that I found that includes the one how to make your own UVB and UVB tanning oil from Avocados too..
So, there is it.. saved by the Avocado.
http://www.avocado.org/about/variety_chart.php
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