Pre-Surgery Post

It's 6:30am in the morning on Thursday May 30, 2019. One day before I have surgery to have my wisdom teeth extracted and one month before one of the biggest days of my life, my wedding. Frankly, each one of them makes me nervous. Tomorrow's surgery makes me nervous because I haven't had surgery of any kind since my reconstructive knee surgery back in July of 2010. The wedding, well, I'm nervous for that because I love Chrissy so much and this day should be absolutely perfect and special for her. She deserves it. I'm nervous because I want everything to go as planned and for her and I to tie the knot and enjoy our time together up in Mount Rainier National Park for the few days after for our short and partial honeymoon. There will be a much more heroic honeymoon later, believe me. Tomorrow's surgery has me anxious because I don't know what to expect, I've heard that the surgery is rather forceful and extremely painful, and the side-effects that were explained to me (numbness on my lower jaw, nasal sinus trauma from upper wisdom teeth, swelling, the poor clotting in the "holes" left by the extracted teeth, etc.) have me seriously considering my odds. I don't gamble, so I'm not sure how my luck will play out in the end. I will be taking tomorrow off from work and using Saturday and Sunday as "rest days" as I don't have anything urgent to address or take care of. I'll just need to sit upright, read, relax, and heal up, so that I can return to Monday ready to roll. I don't have to present new-hire orientation on Monday, so tomorrow was the best option available. Sure, I could have scheduled this for next Thursday or something, but I would miss two days of work instead of one, I would have to run in the Sound to Narrows 12k two days after surgery, the lawn would have to be mowed, and I would have to speak the following Monday. So, as you can see, there was too much going on next weekend and this weekend just made too much sense. I'm worried about the IV anesthesia that will be used to put me under. I've never had the IV option before. My knee surgery in July of 2010 was gas, so this is another "first" for me. I also worry about how I will heal being that I'm older than the recommended or suggested age of wisdom tooth removal (age 38) and I'm not as young as I used to be, obviously. I just hope that everything goes smoothly and I don't become too much of a burden on Chrissy over the next few days. My next post will be post-surgical. See you then!