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20080629 – After Clint’s oral surgery – 159-5998 – Clint’s very swollen jaw
Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
VERY. SWOLLEN. JAW.
OUCH.
NOT HAPPY.
BACKSTORY: Oral surgery #2! Radicular cyst #2 extracted! This is what happens when you have a shitty root canal, and have to have another root canal on the same tooth ~8 years later.
This surgery one caused me to swell more than the last one, but didn’t hurt for as many days. In fact, 3 days later — when we went to X-Day — I stopped taking painkillers altogether, including iburpofen.
Either way, this surgery was much easier on me than the last one. By the time I got home to do my self-portraits with the last one, I was still bleeding. I wont be going back to that oral surgeon again!
The difference between oral surgeons on Kaiser-Permanente and those on Aetna is like the difference between witch doctors and Stephen Hawking.
ORAL SURGERY HINT: Go to Wendy’s and order 10 large Frosties. These have medical value — the coldness help ease the pain even more than painkillers. Ice is hard to manage, and makes a wet mess. This is like ice, but also solves the "liquid foods only" problem. And your body tends to want more fat when you are healing, right? Multi-use fast food FTW! Wendy’s made me pull in because they couldn’t make those many Frosties at thesame time, haha.
Clint.
taking picture.
camera, swollen jaw.
after surgery. self-portrait.
Clint and Carolyn‘s house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 29, 2008.
… Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
… Read Carolyn’s blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
It might be time to stop 
