Teething

[mrissa]

Oh, the indignity. My body has decided to make up for being an early bloomer in every other respect one can imagine by waiting until now to produce my top left wisdom tooth. I had been telling people I only had the bottom two, like my mom. Apparently I have three wisdom teeth. How bizarre. I'm nearly 27. I should not be teething.

Comments

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a surgeon check it out. I can tell by looking at your picture that you've got a small bone structure and would bet dollars to donuts you don't have room for that tooth even if it is not causing problems, now. My wisdom tooth extraction was no problem--minimal pain, no complications. You're young and healthy. You'll be fine.

(And how strange that it waited until you were such an old grownup type person to emerge!)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

This is funny, because I think of myself as large-boned. We had an argument to that effect not long ago:
"You are not big-boned."
"I am, too! I have a big ribcage!"
"No, you have a small waist."
"...Oh."

Anyway, we have dental insurance, and I've had it on my list to get an appointment, so I'll just have them look when I'm in, as long as it doesn't get more immediately problematic.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Well, heck. I have no idea. I have a friend who is many inches taller than me, but her wrists look like a little child's next to mine. And I'm not a particularly hefty person. *shrug* Your dentist will know what to do.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I used to think I was large-boned. Then I met Laura's family. I think if you taped both my wrists or ankles together, it would be about the size of one of theirs. And let's not talk about heads.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I should make it clear that I'm not complaining. When one has a wife who can remove cement blocks embedded in one's backyard simply by kicking them repeatedly, well, that's a physique that comes in handy.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It is also a good thing to remember that one didn't inherit that physique even when some of one's relatives have it. So that one doesn't injure oneself kicking cement blocks.

She said entirely hypothetically.