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rhythmia*shakes head* I'm so, so easy. Also I never outgrew the mentality of a ten-year old boy, in that I still find mutant body parts, bugs and assorted other little-boy things very very shiny. XD
Part the first! To satisfy morbid curiosity, here are pictures of my mutant tooth! I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating more teeth growing in the back, but it turns out I really did have extra bits sprouting.
The dentist told me teeth normally have three roots. This particular one had four. That bit in front? Is wicked sharp. I was cutting my tongue on it all December and January.
^Side views! The dark bit on the mutated tooth is where the cavity was. Basically dentist told me there was no way of getting to it to do a filling, most people have their wisdom teeth taken out anyway, and so I opted to get it done that day. A couple numbing shots, he grabbed it with a tooth wrench, and while I heard some crunching and cracking there was no pain and the tooth was out in a flash. And mine to keep! :D
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Part the Second!
In early January, I was getting ready to go to work. I have an '89 Toyota, so I turn the engine on in the mornings to warm up before I drive it anywhere. That morning I was doing the usual, starting up the car and getting out to grab my stuff, and I stupidly got my thumb caught in the doorjamb as I was slamming it closed. ^^ Went OW, assured my grandparents I was all right and nothing was broken, and merrily drove off to work. XD;;
Whereupon my coworkers went HOLY SHIT and also assured me that the nail would fall off at some point. o.o And tried to figure out a way to bind it, since my thumb started to swell and turn lovely shades of red.
I'd figured it would bruise, like other times I'd slammed my fingers in sliding doors and be done with it. The internal bleeding pattern underneath the nail was kinda pretty, anyhow. Yes, I know I'm a freak. ^_^V
Day 2 and 3 sucked a lot. I had a hard time falling asleep because jarring it hurt, but it wasn't like it was a constant pain. Braced and bandaged it during the day, since I was banging into everything even before I hurt my thumb, and left it to breathe at night. Yay for 万花油! \o/ Wanhuayou, thousand flower oil, literally, is awesome Chinese medicine. Well, it stimulates healing. I've used it a lot over the years, because it's good for scrapes, cuts, bruises, burns, sprains and strains because you work it into the flesh, get the blood flowing and so forth. I like it better than creams like Neosporin because those kinda seal in your skin, so it can't breathe.
Pics from day 6 ^_^ Yes, I know pic 2 looks really really....sketchy. >D
It was fascinating watching the progress of the bleeding/bruising. It took a few days for the bruising around the base of the nail to show, and meanwhile the color under the nail was all swirly. I had a customer who is a nurse, and one of my coworkers tell me that I should take a red hot pin and have someone poke it into the middle of my nail, so the fluids would drain out. To reduce pressure, which was a major cause of the pain, I think. Too bad these suggestions came too late to be effective, because I think it was getting hard at that point.
Day 7. Aren't the colors pretty? Red in a stripe, and blue going gray, kinda cool.
Day 14. The bruising at the base of the nail was squishy for a while, then started to get harder and draw together. It was kinda fun to poke at. :P
Day 34. So the scab started forming, yay for healing! Kinda neat in that the part at the base of the nail became hard, and there was just a thin layer of skin on top between the scab and the rest of the world, until that came off. And then the nail started getting loose. Heh, kinda gross ne? :P But part of the nail was still attached to healthy flesh, so no falling off yet. Kept worrying at it like at a loose tooth though.
Day 37. And it's off! \o/ And then my thumb got down to the business of growing out the nail properly. Of course, since the skin underneath didn't heal smooth, I had to go and sand it down, hehe.
Funny skin bits!
The nail regrew out deformed at first, because the beginning of it was where it got smashed. But then it turned out all right. I've always had strong nails, and I don't put polish or anything on them. Here there's still just the top couple millimeters where you can tell it's kinda smushed and funny looking, otherwise it's grown out fine.
152 days later! Took the picture tonight for the post, hehe.
I ended up washing out the spongy scabby bit, and kept the nail. It's actually kinda surprising how it curls on the ends, like when you knit something and go knit one row, purl one row so that it ends up flat on one side and nubbly on the other, and then the sides curl together.
Okay, that's it. Really more for my reference/childish enjoyment, so if you actually made it to the end of this, hope you were amused/informed/entertained. :D Haha I had too much fun putting this post together.
ETA: So you know how I work in a camera/photofinishing store? So for three solid months (basically until the nail actually fell off) every time I worked at the counter somebody would notice and ask and then I'd get all kinds of awesome smashed nail stories. I would gleefully tell my 'story' to very nice people who'd either shiver and wince in sympathy or gleefully tell their own or their friends'/relatives' stories, haha. What's yours? :D
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artemidora is awesome and linked me to a knitted fungus-infested nail, because she knows what I like. XDDDDD
Part the first! To satisfy morbid curiosity, here are pictures of my mutant tooth! I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating more teeth growing in the back, but it turns out I really did have extra bits sprouting.
The dentist told me teeth normally have three roots. This particular one had four. That bit in front? Is wicked sharp. I was cutting my tongue on it all December and January.
^Side views! The dark bit on the mutated tooth is where the cavity was. Basically dentist told me there was no way of getting to it to do a filling, most people have their wisdom teeth taken out anyway, and so I opted to get it done that day. A couple numbing shots, he grabbed it with a tooth wrench, and while I heard some crunching and cracking there was no pain and the tooth was out in a flash. And mine to keep! :D
~*~*~*~
Part the Second!
In early January, I was getting ready to go to work. I have an '89 Toyota, so I turn the engine on in the mornings to warm up before I drive it anywhere. That morning I was doing the usual, starting up the car and getting out to grab my stuff, and I stupidly got my thumb caught in the doorjamb as I was slamming it closed. ^^ Went OW, assured my grandparents I was all right and nothing was broken, and merrily drove off to work. XD;;
Whereupon my coworkers went HOLY SHIT and also assured me that the nail would fall off at some point. o.o And tried to figure out a way to bind it, since my thumb started to swell and turn lovely shades of red.
I'd figured it would bruise, like other times I'd slammed my fingers in sliding doors and be done with it. The internal bleeding pattern underneath the nail was kinda pretty, anyhow. Yes, I know I'm a freak. ^_^V
Day 2 and 3 sucked a lot. I had a hard time falling asleep because jarring it hurt, but it wasn't like it was a constant pain. Braced and bandaged it during the day, since I was banging into everything even before I hurt my thumb, and left it to breathe at night. Yay for 万花油! \o/ Wanhuayou, thousand flower oil, literally, is awesome Chinese medicine. Well, it stimulates healing. I've used it a lot over the years, because it's good for scrapes, cuts, bruises, burns, sprains and strains because you work it into the flesh, get the blood flowing and so forth. I like it better than creams like Neosporin because those kinda seal in your skin, so it can't breathe.
Pics from day 6 ^_^ Yes, I know pic 2 looks really really....sketchy. >D
It was fascinating watching the progress of the bleeding/bruising. It took a few days for the bruising around the base of the nail to show, and meanwhile the color under the nail was all swirly. I had a customer who is a nurse, and one of my coworkers tell me that I should take a red hot pin and have someone poke it into the middle of my nail, so the fluids would drain out. To reduce pressure, which was a major cause of the pain, I think. Too bad these suggestions came too late to be effective, because I think it was getting hard at that point.
Day 7. Aren't the colors pretty? Red in a stripe, and blue going gray, kinda cool.
Day 14. The bruising at the base of the nail was squishy for a while, then started to get harder and draw together. It was kinda fun to poke at. :P
Day 34. So the scab started forming, yay for healing! Kinda neat in that the part at the base of the nail became hard, and there was just a thin layer of skin on top between the scab and the rest of the world, until that came off. And then the nail started getting loose. Heh, kinda gross ne? :P But part of the nail was still attached to healthy flesh, so no falling off yet. Kept worrying at it like at a loose tooth though.
Day 37. And it's off! \o/ And then my thumb got down to the business of growing out the nail properly. Of course, since the skin underneath didn't heal smooth, I had to go and sand it down, hehe.
Funny skin bits!
The nail regrew out deformed at first, because the beginning of it was where it got smashed. But then it turned out all right. I've always had strong nails, and I don't put polish or anything on them. Here there's still just the top couple millimeters where you can tell it's kinda smushed and funny looking, otherwise it's grown out fine.
152 days later! Took the picture tonight for the post, hehe.
I ended up washing out the spongy scabby bit, and kept the nail. It's actually kinda surprising how it curls on the ends, like when you knit something and go knit one row, purl one row so that it ends up flat on one side and nubbly on the other, and then the sides curl together.
Okay, that's it. Really more for my reference/childish enjoyment, so if you actually made it to the end of this, hope you were amused/informed/entertained. :D Haha I had too much fun putting this post together.
ETA: So you know how I work in a camera/photofinishing store? So for three solid months (basically until the nail actually fell off) every time I worked at the counter somebody would notice and ask and then I'd get all kinds of awesome smashed nail stories. I would gleefully tell my 'story' to very nice people who'd either shiver and wince in sympathy or gleefully tell their own or their friends'/relatives' stories, haha. What's yours? :D
ETA 2:
artemidora is awesome and linked me to a knitted fungus-infested nail, because she knows what I like. XDDDDD
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Date: 2008-06-07 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-07 04:35 pm (UTC).......>.>
......maybe.
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Date: 2008-06-07 11:30 am (UTC)It's kind of amazing how well the nail grew back in . . .
\o/ for satisfaction of morbid curiosity!
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Date: 2008-06-08 02:59 am (UTC)Heh, it wasn't that bad. Or maybe I just have a relatively high pain tolerance? It was balanced out by all the great stories I heard as a result. :PV
Yay for curiosity satisfied! This is the sort of stuff that makes me go 'ooooer. *_*' while most of the other gals and guys around me go 'erk. >.<' *giggles*
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Date: 2008-06-07 10:18 pm (UTC)Half my flist screamed at me when I posted pictures of my wisdom teeth a few months back and I could't understand why. I'm not one of those easily squicked bodies.
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Date: 2008-06-08 03:03 am (UTC)Did you not post them under a cut? Heh, a lot of people get squicked by things that happen to the human body. I...just happen not to be one of them either, I go "ooh, neat! :D :D :D" instead. Now I wanna go see what other people's (read: normal) wisdom teeth look like, mind if I go take a gander? *stalks*
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Date: 2008-06-08 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-09 04:46 am (UTC)Hee, you look a little like a vampire, with that look and the bloody-looking lip. :P
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Date: 2008-06-08 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-09 04:49 am (UTC)