previously, i wrote abt having my wisdom tooth op at ah ytd morning. this is a continuation from it and sort of an ordeal i went through back at home.

after i got home, everything was still quite normal, i took my medicine and just slacked ard the house, changing the gauze every half hr as i was advised to do so for the inital 6 hrs after the op. since i couldn't eat any solid food, i was confined to drinking stuff like milk or yoghurt. i had a short nap and woke up in the afternn to find tt the bleeding had lessened slightly, as in, the gauze was nt entirely soaked and clotted with blood.

fast forward to 3 hrs later when i had just finished watching stuff i downloaded..the bleeding had steadily lessened all this while and feeling hungry, i went down to the kopitiam to get a packet of milo peng and also to ntuc to stock up on milk and soft foods like yoghurt and pudding for the next two days. while i was paying for my purchases, i started feeling a strong metallic taste in mouth, and also like my mouth was being flooded like tt...

once out of ntuc and on the way home, the feeling got ever stronger and i stopped to spit out the gauze..to my surprise, it came out all bloody like when i had just finished the op, along with a huge mouthful of blood. i quickly made my way home, dribbling blood from my mouth along the way and leaving some sort of a bloody trail all the way to the lift. to the unknowning passerby, it must have looked like i had been in a fight and got badly injured or what. damn.

upon reaching home, i immediately stuffed a new piece of gauze in, and it was soaked in abt a minute and i again had the metallic taste and flooded feeling. at first i didn't care and just went abt my own stuff..but it got to pt tt i was feeling damn weird since the metallic taste and the flooding just would not go away, so i went to change the gauze again, and this was just abt 5-10 minutes since i last changed it..

nt surprisingly, it was soaked and clotted with coagulated blood even..and for the next 10 minutes or so, i continually changed the gauze every minute, gg through abt 10 pieces of gauze in tt short period of time. and all this while i was still dribbling and spitting out excess blood into the sink. and when i looked into the mirror, i could actually see the blood flowing out and flooding my mouth the moment i took out the gauze.

this went on for another 15 minutes or so, and i thought tt its quite weird, so i called edmund and asked him if it was normal since he had had the wisdom tooth op before. he said he would come up and take a look, and when he arrived, i was still gg through pieces of gauze like nobody's business. it was quite scary i thought, as the entire sink had been filled up with both coagulated and fresh blood along with bloodied water i had gargled with to try to wash the blood away.

edmund told me to stop gargling as this would only aggravate the wound cavity and to apply firm pressure on the gauze to stop the bleeding. it didn't work, and after gg through another 5 pieces of gauze or so in just as many minutes, we called ah..or rather, edmund did, since i couldn't talk with my mouth full of blood. the dental staff there told me to keep trying with the gauze, and they would call back in abt 20 minutes to check on me..and of course there was no improvement at all by the time they called back, so i was told to go back to ah..before we left, we took this picture to commemorate the ordeal.


bloody isn't it? haha..

on the way to ah inside the cab, i continued dribbling out blood into a plastic bag i brought along every minute or so, even spitting out a loose piece of gum tissue. it steadily accumulated to the point when i reached ah, there was quite alot la..and edmund kept asking me if i felt faint since i had been losing blood for the last 1 half hrs. by the time we reached ah, there was this much:


woah..

well, i was put onto the dentist's bench and operated on for the second time tt day, and they stitched me up yet again..even applying medication to stop the bleeding and using a suction tube to suck up all the blood that kept flowing out during the op. too bad i don't have a picture of tt.

and the cause of the excess and persistent bleeding? regrettably, i cant really explain it, as it was told to me in chim medical terms that sounded like greek..only the words: bone, blood and vessels sounded english..hah.

i was made to stay for another half hr of observation before they deemed me ok to be discharged. got home, went abt my business, took the medication and was happy to find tt the bleeding had steadily decreased, stopping completely this morning.

I couldn't finish my dinner because of that picture x_X
» Bullet on 2007-03-06 02:33:25

eeeyer.. wat the fuck man.. why u post that gross picture.. shit... looks like jam but can't think of it that way.. looks painful to me siah
» tibetmonk on 2007-03-06 07:15:49

now tt u mention it..yeah..it does look like raspberry jam hahaha..prob because the blood's coagulated liao..and yeah..it was damn painful sia..
» HellSinG on 2007-03-07 07:04:29

Fucking hell.. now i dun dare to remove my wisdom teeth
» tibetmonk on 2007-03-07 08:39:51

no worries, the dentist assured me tt mine was just an extraordinary case; usually wont bleed so much de..but den again..i do feel sian just thinking abt my two more wisdom teeth that are due to be removed in the next 2 weeks.
» HellSinG on 2007-03-08 08:05:47

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