Toothless

Well, 

I did it!

I got all 4 of my pesky wisdom teeth removed.

The surgery actually wasn't too bad. Call me crazy, but I sorta enjoyed being awake the whole time. Maybe thats just the laughing gas talking lol


The night before, I didn't sleep... at ALL. I was just way too anxious. I woke up about 2 hours before we had to leave and took a shower. Then I sat in the living room staring at the christmas tree & trying to play out how "I thought" the surgery was going to go.
I was given to Valium pills & I was to take one and hour before I got to the office & then the other when I got to the office. Alex left to go get me a banana nut muffin... and as planned, I took the first Valium an hour before. All I remember was feeling super dizzy after I got done blow drying my hair... and feeling drunk while putting on my makeup.  When Alex got home, he found me laying down in the closet, telling him that I couldn't walk... and then proceeded to crawl to the door half dressed. I'm assuming I ended up falling down while getting dressed lol Oh & my makeup... dark purple eye shadow?... lets just say I looked like I should have been standing on the corner or at a drag show. Clearly, I was out of my mind.
By time we got to the office I was in a whole different world. I took the second pill at the office and the rest is history.
I remember talking to Dr. King and Kristen (the assistant) about being afraid I was going to choke to death on my spit. They just laughed and assured me I wouldn't. The laughing gas made me feel silly and I giggled every now and then for no reason at all. I remember him numbing my mouth and it hurt a tiny bit... but not too bad.
The procedure itself went pretty smoothly. I had my ipod on playing one song on repeat, with only one working headphone. GHETTO. But it worked out pretty well because I could hear all of the questions perfect but still have my favorite song playing.
By time Dr. King made it to my last wisdom tooth, he had to numb me again because my right side is extremely sensitive. And all of a sudden I felt a horrible sting & pinch that I hadn't felt with any of the other teeth, and immediately grabbed my face.
A piece of my jawbone came out with my bottom tooth!


It wasn't until I got home, that the pain finally set in. The medicine I was prescribed wasn't strong enough. It would have been, if I didn't get a chunk of my jaw ripped out. While I was in the bathroom panicking from the pain and the loss of blood, Alex called the dentist and they had him go in & get me a stronger prescription. I went from having 500mg Lortab to 650mg Percoset.
The first 3 hours of being home, I endured the WORST pain of my life.
But finally the medicine set in & it's been smooth sailing from there.
The Percoset makes me extremely nauseous and I can barely eat. The first day I could only eat a spoonful of pudding here & there but that was it. Today I ate a whole pudding cup & then later tried to eat some vegetable soup at hand... but that just made me feel horrible. I've discovered that yogurt & pudding are the only things that dont make me want to vomit... so for the next few days, I'm going to basically starve to death lol

Now here are some pics of my Wisdom Teeth Adventure

According to the dentist, I have long roots lol

Part of the piece of my jawbone between the roots of the last tooth.

My Post-surgery lounge that Alex set up for me while he was at work
on day two.

Jinx & Ellie taking care of me. I swear, they knew something was wrong lol I love them!!!
& yes, I have my Burberry scarf around my head with ice packs in it... lol

Dentist

Soooo

I went to the dentist on Wednesday, and just as I expected, my teeth wore not torn out.

As planned (if that happened) we went to Olive Garden... just to find out they no longer do the never ending pasta bowls. LAME. But I got pretty full after downing 6 bread sticks in 5 minutes. I barely had room for my pasta. But it was pretty delicious (:
 

Back to the dentist...

One of my bottom wisdom teeth is actually blocked by my jawbone. So the force of it trying to erupt actually swelled my gums up and caused an infection. D: So thats what the dying pain is from.
I got prescribed an antibiotic and some pain meds and now I'm getting my poor teefies out 

TOMORROW MORNING!

ahhhhhhhh!

I'm pretty scared, I'm not gonna lie. But mostly because I'm not getting put under. I'm going to be awake the whole time! D: My dentist told me to bring an ipod so I dont hear all of the drills. I just hope the laughing gas puts me in a whole different world lol

I think I'm going to do fine though... I'm just ready for it to be over.

Alex went to Sam's Club and bought me a whole bunch of pudding, applesauce, ice cream and soup (: I love him sooooooo much! I cant wait to nom on all my chocolate pudding! yummmm!

2 weeks after my surgery, I can go in & have my teeth cleaned & all my cavities filled. You have NO idea how excited I am about this! (:  I'm ready to smile with confidence <3

Oh, Wisdom Teeth.

I woke up this morning with a swollen face and aching jaw... to the point where I was in tears.

It was my darn wisdom teeth.

I already have 4 that have broke the surface... but I guess the 2 on the bottom are impacted. That basically means they are coming in sideways. All I can say is, its one of the worst pains EVER.

This a decent image of what my teeth are doing inside of my head right now.

Alex called a dentist office a few minutes before it was closing and told them what was wrong... and they said they should see me tomorrow morning at 8:30 as soon as they open.
WHAT!? I mean, I'm glad that I'm going to get this taken care of... but I haven't even had time to mentally prepare. YIKES.
When I go in tomorrow, they are going to take x-rays and then check the area and see if there is any infection. Since there is swelling, theres a good chance of infection which means that they can't operate until that gets better. So, I guess we will see!

The dentist preforming the "maybe" surgery said that I couldn't eat or drink anything but water at least 12 hours before the surgery...
Which would be fine... except Alex and I didn't call until 5pm and the food cut off would have to start at 8pm.
So the only thing I got to eat all day was a slice of pizza and a granola bar.
lets just say, I'M STARVING!

I tried to go to bed at a decent time... but its hard to sleep when Alex is working the midnight shift. I'm not too fond of sleeping alone. And then my mom called at like 11... so I stayed up and talked to her for about an hour.
I guess I finally ended up falling asleep... but then I woke up at 2:30 am... and CANNOT get back to sleep. I dont know if its because I'm nervous or because I'm starving! lol

I'm not sure if I want the surgery to happen tomorrow or if I want there to be an infection so I can wait a week. But if I do have to wait a week... the first thing I'm doing when we get out of that office is going to Olive Garden & getting the never ending pasta bowl!!! nom nom nom!

my poor confusing blog.

So, recently it's been brought to my attention that my blog is a bit confusing to people who dont really know me.
And I guess thats understandable... but I mainly write to keep my friends and family back home updated on my life.
Well, I've been a bit hesitant to write lately... because knowing that my blog was called "confusing" kinda upset me. So I spent the last few days, trying to fix it up a bit. (: A redid the ENTIRE thing... even though it looks the same lol I started from scratch. In my "I am Sam" tab, I added some information under each picture. I also think that I'm going to start refering to Alex as "Alex" rather than "A" because I guess thats confusing lol
I'm not sure what other changes will be taking place here in my blogland... but I want to make it easier for everyone to read <3

I love you guys!

November in a Nutshell

Quite a bit has happened in November... and I've been pretty busy. My phone is not sending pics for some reason so there will be no pictures in this post ): but anyway, here's November in a Nutshell:

BFF

On 11/11/11, my verrrry best friend, Ashlyn flew up to New York to visit me (:
The second I saw her in the airport, I busted into tears. It's been 6 months since I saw her... and thats the longest we've been apart in 5 years.
I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty tough getting used to 3 people living in a 1 bedroom apartment lol But only at first. After a couple days went by, it just became normal.
We all woke up pretty early every day & Alex would pick us up some Dunkin Doughnuts coffee before he headed off to work (: It became a morning necessity lol
We explored 3 malls! (Colonie Center, Crossgates Mall, & Clifton Park Center) And we made it through the Christmas Tree Store ALIVE! lol
Most of the week we just relaxed and watched tv & made christmas ornaments (: It felt so nice to always have someone around. And my apartment has felt empty since she left.
If I learned anything from her visit, its that we CANNOT go that long without seeing each other ever again!

Turkey Day

Alex and I planned on spending Thanksgiving in our apartment with a meatloaf instead of a turkey lol
But our amazing friends, Amanda & Ben invited us over for dinner with them.
We ended up having it the day before because they had a family emergency come up.
I spent the day with Amanda and Ben helping cook... but mostly just sitting on the floor and eating delicious homemade cookies ^____^ yum! 

Dinner was AMAZING. Something about being with them made it feel extra special. They are are "Navy family" and I wouldn't have had Thanksgiving dinner any other way <3
On the "real Thanksgiving", Alex and I had chicken nuggets and french fries accompanied by a movie (A Walk To Remember) and it was actually a lot of fun (: leave it to us to eat like kinder-gardeners lol (:

One Year

November 27th was Alex & I's one year anniversary! And wow... A YEAR! I can believe it's been a whole year. It's been an extraordinary one though (:
I woke up and went in the living room & sitting on the table was a huge bouquet of white daisies and white lilies (: And next to it was my favorite- maple donut from D&D (: Alex had written all over the bag. All the wonderful things he loves about me & a poem (: I love this man!!

So, November came and went pretty quickly. It always seems to for me lol 

and in One week from today... 

I WILL BE 21!!! :D

half a year.

It has been a whole 6 months that I have been living in New York.

6 months that I haven't seen my family & friends in Florida.

So,most of you know that A & I were supposed to be up here in NY for 6 months. Well... lets just say in Navy time, apparently that means a year. Let me explain;

We moved here in May which means that would leave in November. BUT when we got here, A didn't start his "classes" till a month later... (+ 1 month = 7)
So now we would leave in December. Yeah, NOPE. Apparently his graduation got put back about 2 months later. (+ 2 months = 9)
And well, on top of that... the class that graduated 3 months ago... they are STILL HERE!
(+ 3 months = 1 YEAR!)
Thats right... A whole year.
Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE New York. love love love love.
But there are a few reasons why I didn't want to (plan to) stay here for so long....
-We decided to rent furniture because it would be less of a hassle to move with it & a 6 month lease was reasonable. But now we have to keep getting extensions put on the lease. (bye bye money)
-We are outgrowing our apartment. When we first moved in... it seemed so big. But I swear every day the walls are closing in a tiny bit more.
-I want to be somewhere that I can properly "root" myself. I'm not too fond of this feeling of not knowing when we're leaving.
-I want to be on base... where I can have more friends and get out & do things.
-We don't want to or even know how to deal with snow. We barely knew what to do with the 3 inches we recieved last month... can you imagine adding feet to that?? 
But I think the biggest reason why I want to leave is because I want his orders to come in. I want to know WHERE we are going to be stationed. I just wannnna knoowwww!!!

A was given 7 options of where we could be stationed, and then had to make a "wish list" from what he wanted the MOST to least.

1. Hawaii

2. California

3. Washington

4. Connecticut

5. Virginia

6. Georgia

7. Guam

I pray every night for Hawaii or California. EVERY night. But honestly, as long as I end up in a nice area with a nice house... I would go anywhere.

But until then, I'm gonna keep on lovin' me some New York! (:

those autumn leaves,

Autumn

This cold weather in New York has been so refreshing. I've always been a fall/winter person, so to experience a true fall foliage and then have it snow... PURE BLISS (: 

The snow storms seem to be over for a while. And we are so blessed that we didn't get it really bad where we're at. We received less than a foot of snow each of the 2 days... enough to make a snowman but not too much to snow us in. So, now that the snowfall has subsided, its back to regular autumn days 

( but they are just a bit on the chilly side)

A and I had a picnic down by lake & I managed to take some pics of the beautiful scenery:

Have I mentioned that its absolutely breath taking here?? (:

seriously;

I ♥ NY