The adult mouth has...

An adult human has 31 teeth

This human, that is. The occasional hearing loss I mentioned several weeks ago appears to have been the symptom of a very unhappy wisdom tooth. I visited Dr. Wilson this morning to take a peek at it. He took a look after a thorough cleaning by Sue the hygienist, and told me he'd like to take it out. Before I knew it, my mouth was numb and I was explaining to Alicia that she'd have to hang out in the waiting room a little longer while so they could pull the tooth. She seemed more surprised than I was. I returned to the little exam room, got all the gory details on what could possibly go wrong with the procedure, and gave the nod to get it over with. Three minutes later I was clamping down on a piece of gauze. Twelve hours after that, I'm struggling to wrap a blog entry while 15mg of hydrocodone is tickling my opoid receptors. Beats the hell out of hurting. Now I go back to bed so I can wake up and see if I can handle working tomorrow.