Thursday, June 5, 2008

Food by colour

I just had my wisdom teeth out today and am trying to live through the experience as painlessly as possible. So far my mouth is a bit sore, and my throat hurts, but thankfully my bottom lip has unfrozen. It is good too to have my tooth extraction buddy Marcio (who also got his out today) to compare experiences of the healing process. I was asleep under general sedation for my surgery, but I think he was high on nitrous oxide. I only got a bit of the laughing gas at the beginning, to make me cheery while my IV was being put in. I think it also made me really talkative and kind of tactless:

The nurse tried to put the IV in my left hand vein about three times and didn't manage. It's not her fault, I have small veins and was dehydrated, but I got a little weird.
Nurse: Usually I'm really good at IVs but this one is hard.
Suzi: Well it's good to hear that IVs are your specialty.
*after she puts the IV in my right hand*
Nurse: I got it!
Suzi: Great! I'm happy for... me.
After she started pumping drugs through the IV, all I remember is her putting something in my mouth to prop it open. Then next thing I know there is something in my mouth, but it is not the prop, it is gauze, because the operation was over and the gauze was there to stem the bleeding. It was kind of unexpected. Like, what they're gone already?!?

So now I'm eating all kinds of cool food. What I've noticed is that it is very colourful:

Orange: mashed yams, fresh squeezed carrot and apple juice
Yellow: scrambled eggs. yum. hopefully some soft polenta soon too.
White: yogurt

Ok I have run out of colours. Hopefully I will eat some colourful jello soon. I like jello.