Fascinating

Human kind conquered the seas and the land. We made our way to the moon and back. But a little crystal, not even the size of a grain of sand, somewhere in the lower saliva channel can cause days of agony to be relieved only partially by pain killers.

To finish with this

Please note the two wisdom teeth below and their nearly 90° angle. Gone, forever.

Tough…

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One last word

sutures
Fäden
fils

Took not even 10 minutes to get them out. And the doctor was impressed how well the wounds had healed.

However, it’s a pity I only started blogging in 2006. If I think about all the vocabulary I learned in a similar painful way in France, I could fill pages. I remember one of the first words learned in a medical context: mollet (Wade, calf). Good old times…

Un peu plus de vocabulaire

aka – Word of the week

Kiefersperre
lockjaw
Couldn’t find a Frensh translation…

Kiefersperre is a common symptom after a wisdom teeth extraction. I remember my parents joking often when my sister or I were taking a really big bite from a sandwhich that we should pay attention of not getting a Kiefersperre.

Well, it’s not funny.

Don’t be so German

that’s what my colleagues said when I announced my sick leave last week. But contrary what Nothingforungood writes, I don’t think that I’ll go back when the doctor says I can. The 2 minutes way to the pharmacy was exhausting today so I don’t think that I’ll be able to manage a 20 minutes walk to work tomorrow.

Sometimes, you can’t avoid planning and sometimes, you can’t avoid changing plans. Guess that’s called life.

Why

did I have to take my socks off though it were an operation to get the wisdom teeth out?

I don’t want to complain but I really had cold feet…

Ratio

Wondering what the proportion is betwen the weight of 4 wisdom teeth and the lost of weight after the operation due to liquid food only…