Devon's Wisdom Teeth come out

On Thursday, May 29 at 9:30 am Devon had his appointment to get his wisdom teeth out by Dr. Jamie Warren.

Devon was an excellent patient.  He got a little faint either from the IV or the laughing gas, but he quickly recovered and endured the proceedure.  Devon's wisdom teeth were very high (they probably didn't need to come out) and so they were a tough job. 

Devon's doctor warned us that he would have a lot of swelling and pain because of the teeth's position.  Amazingly, after the first day, Devon really didn't have any pain.  He did however, have swelling.

Devon was a strong cookie - he didn't have any kind of "funny" reaction to the laughing gas like Jessica and Marissa.  He was very child-like but he didn't say crazy sentences or make "out-of-the blue" comments.  After an hour he was almost completely back to normal. 

Our biggest challenge with Devon was finding SOFT food that he would like.  We came to realize Devon doesn't really like soft food.  It must be a texture thing.  Luckily we found enough soft foods to make it through the few days that he was required to eat soft foods - bananas, pudding, rice with teriyaki sauce, ... he tried oatmeal (but said he didn't like it).  He doesn't like mashed potatoes, jello, mac and cheese ... ugh.

I think he has a very high threshold for pain and a high ability to handle medicine.

Devon's one great patient. 

By Sunday the stitches came out and he was HAPPY to eat real food again.

Marissa Gets her Wisdom Teeth Out

Thursday, March 27 was a very busy day for Marissa - she had to go to school and take three test before I excused her from school at 12:00 pm to take her to the oral surgeon to have her wisdom teeth extracted.

She did great!  They said she was a perfect patient.  Her surgery was at 1:00 pm and they were done by 1:30.  They gave her laughing gas during the operation.  Marissa had to have 4 wisdom teeth removed, unlike Jessica whom only had two.

When she came out of the laughing gas she was very confused.  She couldn't feel her face.  She also couldn't feel her legs ... and consequently couldn't walk.  Betsy had to help (extremely) her to the car and then into the house.  

Marissa had some super thoughts while on the laughing gas - I recorded a few moments with her.  

She's so precious and cute!!!

Wave goodbye to the Wisdom Teeth

Today, at 10;00 am Jessica had an appointment to have her wisdom teeth removed.  She went back and they started her on laughing gas - but she started to feel sick, so they had to slow things down and get her stable before they could give her the Zofran and start the oral surgery.  After she settled down, the doctor said everything went very smoothly.  

Mark and I were invited back after she started to come around.  She was in a very giggly mood - she actually couldn't stop giggling.  She giggles for 20 minutes straight.  It was hilarious!  I broke into laughter myself with tears rolling out of my eyes.  It was histarical.  

We got her up to get to the car, and she just dropped to the floor - it's a good thing we were holding her.  She couldn't believe that she couldn't stand.  Eventually she felt her feet and legs and we walked out to the car.  She was so loosy goosy!  

She was so funny in the car ride home saying things like, "Daddy, are you a race car driver?  Is Mommy a race car driver?  Look there are cars on the road.  Oh, we are IN the neighborhood!"  It just went on an on.  When we asked her is she could drive, she was sure she could.  When we told her she couldn't for about 24 hours she looked so confused, she had no idea why.  Then we had her do the "finger to the nose" test and she failed miserably!  It was hilarious.

Jessica had all the vocabulary of a 20 year old lady, but spoke as if she was a 5 year old girl that hadn't seen anything in her whole life.  Everything was so exciting and new to her.  For example, when she walked into the house, before we even got her to the couch she looked at the TV and said, "Look it's the Olympics."  

Our cute chipmonk.

She was so funny we had to video tape her.  Betsy took video of her while on the car ride home.  See below.

She was a great patient except for the fact that she didn't realize she couldn't do some things - like walk, drive, etc.  After about 6 hours the medicine started to wear off and she started to come around to her normal self.  At that time the pain also started to kick in as the pain killer was wearing off.  

Jessica didn't want to eat, but we knew she needed food.  She would only eat a little at a time making her weaker and weaker.   

The next day Jessica didn't eat very much and decided to go for a car ride with Betsy.  Well that didn't go over very well because it was such a hot day and it wore her out.  Before we could get back home she started to feel like she was going to pass out.  We drove home and got her to the kitchen before she started to get wobbly, and we don't know if she actually passed out, but I yelled for Robert to get a kitchen table chair and put it at her back side.  He did it just before she went weak in the knees.   

We nursed her back with Sprite and Amish Friendship bread.  She had her eyes closed and opened her mouth.  I had to feed her small bites until she came around - nearly 20 minutes later.  It was amazing to see what a little sugar and food does for the body.  I think (hope) Jessica learned a lesson here!