Sunday, June 28, 2009

Lea Ann's Luxurious Tooth Yanking (Post-Op Report)

Lea Ann is safe and sound back in the hotel ...er... hospital room! She's doing fine but apparently they are only going to give her Tylenol for the recovery. I think I have some better stuff up in Korat but we'll have to wait a day for that, and they don't sell high strength pain killers in the pharmacies (even though they sell just about everything else over-the-counter).

The doctor let me keep the teeth as a souvenir...woohoo! He said the 2 top teeth were easy and came out in 1 piece, but the bottom 2 were very fragile and they broke when he was pulling them. He also said he could see the nerve after he finished getting the teeth out, but he "protected it 100%". And Lea Ann has feeling in her lips, so her worst fears are past :-).

The nurses here were great, they treated Lea Ann like she was here for open-heart surgery or something (knock on wood). She gets fresh ice packs whenever she wants and we might just buy an ice cream or a frappuccino on the way outta here!

Anyways she's got 30 minutes left on the IV and then they will let her take a shower, get dressed and we'll head over to M+H's for a day of recovery in Bangkok! (lucky them). Everything's fine so far...she's just a little sore!

2 comments:

Lea Ann said...

Chris! I must have been in too much pain to realize you put up this picture! Puke!

zoe'smom said...

Lea Ann...you even make big blue ice packs on your face look good!