Saturday, April 17, 2010

Doctors

I've always thought I had a fairly high tolerance for pain, and that doctors are terrible listeners.
My current doctor working with my jaw is even more evidence as such. He made it VERY clear my jaw pain is "from a direct injury" and interrogated my response as "it started to hurt one morning when I woke up." He asked multiple times if there was ANYTHING I could have done to have caused this, anything I could think of that could have injured my jaw, and aside from punching myself in my sleep, NO. I wanted to be a sarcastic bitch and tell him it was from giving head to a very well endowed boy, but I was too frustrated and in far too much pain to open my mouth without bursting into tears.
It was clear he wouldn't have believed anything I told him anyways, so whether or not I told him the truth (that i woke up and my entire right jaw/cheek was swollen and painful) or lied (it was from a jell-o wrestling match that got violent) it wouldn't have mattered.
So here I lie, a heating pad on my face, my right jaw/gums/cheek tingling, without the ability to eat hard, solid food, or yawn without lots of pain. Not to mention the fatigue, queasiness and misery that comes with taking steroids and strong pain medication, but my neck and head also feel like they are in a vice being squished.
My follow up is tuesday, but I think I'm going to call monday and throw a temper tantrum.

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