The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

ivyleaf

Thoughts are with you and James Sue xx

Maggie I hope you feel a bit better today xx

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

They nicked mine, again under GA, when I was about 14/15 I think - I don't think it was O-Level year so was at least the year before.
In my case it was because they suspected that they would impact and push the other teeth forward, particularly since my inner two top incisors were already slightly behind the outer two - and still are but have given me no trouble.

The main thing I remember about it wasn't so much coming out of the GA but the "meal" they gave me for breakfast - dunno if it was a result of the op or the GA, or was the standard fare at the time. Scrambled Egg on Toast was what they said it was - seemed more like suede on leather, certainly in texture

Ooh, don't talk to me about food after a quadruple wisdomteethectomy!

I could barely open my mouth, let alone chew, so what did they give me? Roast beef with all the trimmings!

I remember being really hungry, but couldn't eat any of it, as I couldn't chew.
I told the nurse, but she just asked if I'd like a sandwich, but I couldn't chew that either, and as I could barely open my mouth, it wasn't really an option.
She admitted that they hadn't thought it through.
Wonderful.

Plus there was a TV in the corridor and Wimbledon was on, and I was coming round from the GA, felt groggy and headachy and really rough, and all I could hear was thud-thud, thud-thud, thud-thud, cheer, applause, thud-thud, thud-thud etc.
I asked the nurse if it could be turned down or moved, but she said the other patients wanted it on, and it wouldn't be fair on them.
It was a hospital, for God's sake! Not a holiday camp!

All in all, it was not a nice experience.
Plus I had to go home on the bus, still feeling rough, as my parents didn't have a car, and were too stingy to pay for a taxi.
:(:(:(

Crumbs. That's brought back some horrid memories.









Pastures....... fingers crossed they'll be nice!
Although you may soon have a wailing baby!

GDB2222

"so annoying when people do that."

I find it helps to score the annoyance out of 10, where 10 is surviving a nuclear holocaust.

Surviving a nuclear holocaust is worse than simply being incinerated in a flash. That rates a 9 or 9.5.

On that scale, most annoyances are under 1. Working that out usually calms me down a fair bit.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

"so annoying when people do that."

I find it helps to score the annoyance out of 10, where 10 is surviving a nuclear holocaust.

Surviving a nuclear holocaust is worse than simply being incinerated in a flash. That rates a 9 or 9.5.

On that scale, most annoyances are under 1. Working that out usually calms me down a fair bit.

However, being incinerated in a flash couldn't score anything because it would be over before you had a chance to get annoyed about it.

rachlikeswinter

Pyxis wrote: »

Not relevant at all, but I had my four impacted ones removed under GA when I was about 19. They weren't causing me any trouble, but in those days, it was recommended that they be removed in case they caused problems later.... abcesses, etc. Nowadays, I believe they don't remove them unless they are problematical or likely to be for that particular individual for some other health reason.

I wish they still did that. My dentist told me one of my wisdom teeth was impacted years ago and left it as per... and of course now I'm 30 I'm getting recurring infections (one has started up a few days ago and it's just gross and my face hurts:() - was referred to the hospital in July to have it finally removed under GA and I'm still waiting. I go to France for the winter in a month so really need it sorted soon! I love the NHS and all but sooooo slowwwwww. In the meantime my dentist is private and he is RAKING in the cash with me popping in for antibiotics all the blimmin' time :mad: I'm probably single-handedly causing the antibiotics resistance crisis...

Also never had a GA and I'm kinda scared :eek:

Also also, hi nice people. I'm a lurker but now I've posted. I'm Nice, hopefully.

LydiaJ

SingleSue wrote: »

Got a stressy day today, James is going in to have an operation (4 x wisdom teeth removal under GA), already been cancelled once as the anaethetist was not happy and ordered further cardiac tests. Any operation is risky but a dental procedure for someone with EDS is right up there for risk, especially as he has cardiac involvement and an unrelated heart murmur.

To give an idea of how risky it is, no dentist will touch him for even a filling, let alone an extraction (or 4!). The most they will do is look in his mouth and then refer him to the hospital if any treatment is needed....

Joe is also coming home for the weekend tomorrow...he is missing the cat.

There's something about teeth and hearts, although I forget the details. LNE had a malformed heart valve and had to be very careful with dentistry. He was allowed to have dental treatment but only with huge doses of preventative antibiotics before and after.

Pyxis wrote: »

That sounds difficult, Sue.
Presumably they are impacted, are they? Otherwise I'm assuming they'd do them under a local.

Not relevant at all, but I had my four impacted ones removed under GA when I was about 19. They weren't causing me any trouble, but in those days, it was recommended that they be removed in case they caused problems later.... abcesses, etc. Nowadays, I believe they don't remove them unless they are problematical or likely to be for that particular individual for some other health reason.

I had all mine out under GA at 18. They weren't causing problems - my family have very late teeth so at 18 mine were still totally under the gum and hadn't formed roots yet. But there was no space in my mouth for them. I'd already had a set of 4 premolars removed, so now I only have 24 teeth instead of 32, but I've no spare space.

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

...have some sort of infection so spent nearly all day yesterday asleep.

Hope the sleep did you good.

Pyxis

rachlikeswinter wrote: »

I wish they still did that. My dentist told me one of my wisdom teeth was impacted years ago and left it as per... and of course now I'm 30 I'm getting recurring infections (one has started up a few days ago and it's just gross and my face hurts:() - was referred to the hospital in July to have it finally removed under GA and I'm still waiting. I go to France for the winter in a month so really need it sorted soon! I love the NHS and all but sooooo slowwwwww. In the meantime my dentist is private and he is RAKING in the cash with me popping in for antibiotics all the blimmin' time :mad: I'm probably single-handedly causing the antibiotics resistance crisis...

Also never had a GA and I'm kinda scared :eek:

Also also, hi nice people. I'm a lurker but now I've posted. I'm Nice, hopefully.

Hallo! :hello:

Don't be scared. People vary a lot in how they react to anaesthetics. Follow any instructions about food and water to the letter, though.


Do you like mushrooms?

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

OK, the guy who hit our car. We got quotes at the garages he recommended but he is obviously finding it too much so is no longer offering to pay. What option do I have but to go to my insurance company, pay the excess and wait for them to recover it from his insurance company?

If he admits liability, your insurance company shouldn't make you pay an excess at all. At least, mine didn't, either this time or the previous time someone drove into me. They tell their insurer it was their fault, their insurer tells your insurer they're accepting liability, and you get your repair/courtesy car/whatever for free because even if your insurer hasn't received the money yet, they know it's coming. This time the accident was Sunday afternoon, I started getting through to people about it on Monday first thing, and I had my free big hire car by late morning the same day.

But perhaps you are with a super-moneysaving-amazing-deal-cheapo insurer so you don't get that??

rachlikeswinter wrote: »

I wish they still did that. My dentist told me one of my wisdom teeth was impacted years ago and left it as per... and of course now I'm 30 I'm getting recurring infections (one has started up a few days ago and it's just gross and my face hurts:() - was referred to the hospital in July to have it finally removed under GA and I'm still waiting. I go to France for the winter in a month so really need it sorted soon! I love the NHS and all but sooooo slowwwwww. In the meantime my dentist is private and he is RAKING in the cash with me popping in for antibiotics all the blimmin' time :mad: I'm probably single-handedly causing the antibiotics resistance crisis...

Also never had a GA and I'm kinda scared :eek:

Also also, hi nice people. I'm a lurker but now I've posted. I'm Nice, hopefully.

Ooo! A new NP! How lovely. Welcome. :hello:

So far all we know about you is
a) you are 30
and
b) you have an impacted wisdom tooth that keeps getting infected.

Would you like to tell us more about yourself? I imagine that (b), however topical to the discussion, isn't really a core part of what you consider your identity??? But of course, no need to tell us anything if you don't want to. That's one of the rules of the NPT - people can reveal as much or as little about themselves as they like, both here and/or in PMs, and if different people reveal different amounts of information, that's fine, and nobody's allowed to take offence.

Actually, we also know
c) you are going to go to France for a month for the winter - I hope that's fun - I imagine it is, because of your username.

My experience of GAs is that waking up from them used to be vile, but is are now pretty harmless. I've had 3 of them...
1987 - Horrible experience waking up, sort of semi-awake but very confused, uncontrollably shaking and appallingly nauseous for what felt like hours, although I've no idea how long it really was.
1995 - GA accompanied by drug to prevent nausea - no actual unpleasantness at all, but quite a while when I couldn't form new memories, so I had a very disconcerting feeling that although I knew I hadn't only just woken up, I hadn't the faintest idea what had been happening since I did.
2002 - Don't know if it was a new kind of GA, or a GA with more and better side-effect-suppressing accompaniments - woke up pretty much like one does after sleeping normally. No symptoms at all.

Doctors have to tell you that a GA carries various tiny risks of dreadful things happening. This sounds very scary when you are sitting there being told about it and asked to sign a consent form. However, you have to try to be logical and put it in context. There are lots of things we do every day that carry minute risks of something dreadful happening - like driving about in cars, for example, or eating food that we might choke on, or spending time in crowded spaces with strangers who just might have ebola or turn out to be terrorists, or in tall buildings that just might collapse, or on holiday in countries where they have earthquakes. The risks of serious complications of a GA are like that. They're there, but they're not worth worrying about, because we all have lives to get on with.

PS rachlikeswinter is a great name - both intriguing and pronounceable - but you liable to get abbreviated, particularly by people trying to type on their phones. Would you prefer to be rach, or RLW, or what?

PPS How long have you been lurking? Do we need to tell you a bit about who we are, or do you already know all that?

vivatifosi

Greetings all! Hello Rach and welcome to the NPT.

Family History NPs, both Who Do You Think You are and Family Tree magazines have info on tracing military history. They also have free online content from sites other than FMP and Ancestry.

Pyxis

Rach, Lydia isn't really a detective!

Is Rach short for Rachmaninov?

Or are you Rachli Keswinter?

Bedford is quite close to Inner Herts. So is part of London.
France isn't.
That's an intriguing triple.



Now I've forgotten what I was going to post.