Well. Got my two lower wisdom teeth out today. 

How was it? Not bad. I chose a 'conscious sedation' for the procedure, which basically means they stuck me with a catheter and drugged me so that I was awake but loopy through the whole thing. Thinking back on it now, I can barely remember it. It feels like the whole procedure only took about two minutes. The next thing I remembered after him saying "Okay, Kaitlin, I've just injected the drug, so you should be starting to feel like you drank a couple of martinis," is, "That's it! We're all done. I'll send your mother in." The only things I remember of the procedure itself is the sound of some drilling and the feeling of my left wisdom tooth being pulled from its socket - which, oddly, didn't bother me at all at the time. Hm, wonder why? xD

Plus - lucky me - I've got little to no pain. I just popped a few Ibuprofen about five or six hours ago, and I'm fine. 

The bad part? My damn sockets wont stop bleeding, I haven't eaten since 8:30 last night, haven't had a drink of water since 10:30 last night, I'm tired as f*ck, and my throat is dry as sand. And I can't eat, drink or sleep until the damn bleeding stops, or else I'll screw up the gauze I have to keep in my mouth. 

So here I am watching Scrubs re-runs, bored, but mostly thankful that I'm not in pain. (For now, at least :D)

There's this trick to stop the bleeding where you place two warm, wet teabags over the bleeding sockets and bite. Apparently, there's some chemical in the tea that helps stop bleeding. However, all it really accomplished was to leave a nasty taste in my mouth, anlong with more than a few bits of tea leaves stuck between my teeth. Uh... effective? >_>

Oh, I should really just stop complaining. I've heard horror stories about getting wisdom teeth removed, so I guess I should consider myself lucky that I personally found the experience to be only slightly annoying, rather than agonizingly painful. Yippee!

Plus, my surgeon told me I was the perfect patient. Booya. Who rules the dentist's chair? That would be me. Hellz yeah.