I went to extract two wisdom teeth on the right today. The needle for the anaesthesia is really painful. The dentist was right. You can't feel the pain, but you can feel the pressure exerted on your teeth, which is almost as bad. The surgeon pressed so hard on my teeth I thought I might just dislocate my jaw. Then I felt her pulling and she promptly announced that the top tooth was extracted. The bottom tooth was trickier since it's embedded in the gum. I supposed she cut a slit in my gum first; I couldn't feel that. What I could feel was her sawing my tooth the way a carpenter saws a log. And the sound was just right at my ear.

But alas it was over. I stood up to leave, but felt a bit giddy, and the kind nurse guided me back to rest a while longer.

I began to think that I should have opted for general anaesthesia. But I guess the pain after the anaesthesia fades will be the same. It was disgusting swallowing mouthfuls of blood and walking home with blood-stained lips. And now it's no longer so numb but it's really painful.

Argh it hurts so much...