I’ve contracted MRSA

Ok, so I doubt very much that it’s MRSA, but it sounds nice and dramatic and it got your attention.

Abi was in hospital yesterday to have her remaining 3 wisdom teeth removed.  Having wisdom teeth removed doesn’t sound particularly bad, but it was a pretty traumatic experience.

She’s had one wisdom tooth removed in the past, which was in her upper jaw, so they could just pull it out while she was under local anaesthetic.  However, lower-jaw wisdom teeth can sometimes have their roots caught round the nerves that run along the jaw, which causes significant problems.  And since Abi’s wisdom teeth hadn’t actually come through completely, she had to be put to sleep while her teeth were cut out. 

Fair enough, it still sounds like a pretty minor surgery when compared to life-saving operations.  But getting wisdom teeth removed is one thing I hope never has to be done to me.  She was put to sleep while they cut open her gums and extracted her teeth.  And because all the surgery was taking place around her face, the increased blood flow to her head and face meant she woke up with a headache I can’t even imagine.

They asked us to be in for 8am, so just to make sure we got there by 7:30am.  She was taken through to be anaesthetised at 2pm.  (Yes, that’s right: 6 and a half hours of waiting.  Nothing but waiting. And contracting MRSA.)  While she was in theatre I found a local retail park and got myself a KFC (in case you were wondering) for lunch.  She came back out around 3:30pm, and we were able to leave the hospital at 7:30pm.

So after 12 hours in a hospital, where they’re supposed to fix you up and make you all better, Abi came out feeling much morse than when she went in (albeit better off in the long run), and even I now have a sore throat and headache that I didn’t have before!  Admittedly MRSA’s significantly worse than a sore throat and a headache, but my point still stands…

…whatever it was…