Crystal Madrilejos

I’m feeling much better, but still not 100%. My teeth still hurt and I go tomorrow to get my stitches out. It’s been a long week. A long, hungry week. I’m so sick of apple sauce, and pudding (never thought i’d say that), and cream of mushroom soup. My sister said that I’m going to gain ten pounds when my teeth stop hurting, but I honestly wouldn’t mind if it meant that I could eat sushi and cookies again without having to swish with salt water afterwards and if I didn’t get food caught in the big holes in the back of my mouth. I had lo-mein today and afterwards I checked my teeth and each hole on the bottom had a noodle sticking out of it. Disgusting!

Oh! And, gosh, I realized that I should have mentioned that those aren’t my x-rays below. I just Googled “wisdom teeth” and I liked that photo the best of the options that came up. Though I do have an x-ray that looks very similar to that one, I don’t have a copy of my own. It’s in my chart at the orthopaedic surgeon’s office. You probably wouldn’t notice the difference between mine and the one I posted except that my wisdom teeth were more crooked and I have less cavities between my teeth and a crown, both which show up as big white spots on the x-ray.

It’s currently 3am here and I can’t sleep. I got my wisdom teeth out earlier today (Monday morning) and because of the meds i’m on, I’m not in as much pain as I had feared. However, after being in bed since after my surgery at 11:30am, I can’t seem to get back to sleep. On top of that, I’m feeling nauseous and dizzy and all around like crap. And starving since I can’t eat solid foods.

But there is nothing like lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, to think about things. So I’ve come up with more ideas to add to my to-do/do-make list.

I’m really loving the idea of designing and making coasters. We are badly in need of them. and yes, this is what I think of in bed.

–c.