Post oral-surgery care

Here is a comprehensive list of the most imperative post oral-surgery tips to help you heal fast after your wizzies are yanked out.
1. As soon as you leave your Oral Surgeon, use icepacks on your face! The sooner you start this, the less swelling you will face. AKA you will not be roaming around like a chipmunk.

2. Do not allow the pain to set in before you take your medications. Yes, they are potent narcotics, and yes you need them. Keep in mind if you have a weak stomach like me, you are going to feel nauseous so go ahead and drink something (I drank a chocolate milkshake) along with your meds. AND NO STRAW see #5
3. Bite down on gauze for atleast 2 hours. This allows the clotting to occur faster.
You may also bite down on tea bags (it's slightly bitter) but works miracles. Take room temperature water and drench the teabags in there. The tannic acid released from the tea bags allows enhances the clotting process.

4. DO NOT RINSE YOUR MOUTH for 24 hours or you face the possibility of dislodging the clot which will then result in a dry socket which is something you really DO NOT wish to experience.

5. Do not use a straw for the first week. The suction action can (and i've seen it happen a couple times) dislodge the clot... this will result in exacerbated bleeding at best, and a dry socket at worst.

6. Please go to your follow up appointment - First you need to ensure your healing is on track. And in the worst case scenario where you may have experience parasthesia (nerve damage - like me) then they can help by prescribing you rx some glucocorticoids etc and map the area of damage.

DAT: 37

Going to use this interface as both a motivational tool, and secondly to help those that perhaps need a little bit of guidance on what to do and how to study for the Dental Aptitude test.
This nerve racking process feels daunting, and like you are grappling on the vines of a bottomless abyss...but it totally becomes better.
Do what I didnt do....you MUST take the DAT fresh out of Organic chem, Gen chem and Cell bio. This will ensure the material is fresh. I have practically had to re-teach myself everything since I am 3 years out of it. Bad idea.
I have 37 days, and quite honestly I feel utterly unprepared, HOWEVER I shall keep chugging along while tackling school and everything else that I do.
So today is going to be kind of light since I need to get ahead with some school work - exam time is looming

Materials for the day:
1. Chad's videos.
Concentrating on quizzes for GC 1,2,3.
Review chads GC 1,2,3

To access chad's video's go to http://www.coursesaver.com/

Appreciation

This is so beautiful. Appreciation is such a heartwarming and compassionate trait. Must watch this video. Great whale conservancy project. Almost made me cry

The Space Between Seconds

"It's not your watch that I care about. It's the time you keep." I wrote this for you

Lovers silence

You will forgive me, I hope you don't mind me saying, I just wanted to add, if you've got time and I've said it before and I'll say it again, because you should know, before we go any further, we should put everything on the table because the reality is and the truth is and the fact of the matter is, I shouldn't interrupt but I was wondering and if you know, please tell me, how we manage to say so much, without saying anything at all.

Sunshine

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security, and you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises, and you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult, not the grief of a child, and you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans. After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much. So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… that you really are strong, and you really do have worth. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall

Thought of the day

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two. ~Louis de Bernieres

The kiss

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again – the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world’s greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding. ~Saul Williams

Michael Josephson from The Beautiful Truth

This is truly inspirational

8 Things Yoga Taught Me About Life By William Henderson From The Thought Catalog

8 Things Yoga Taught Me About Life Dec. 26, 2011 By William Henderson

 1. Be prepared to sweat. Hard work should make you sweat. Nothing worth having is going to come easy.




2. Go with the flow. Take your time. Don’t judge your own worth by comparing it to the person next to you. Life is a practice, not a competition. There is no winning, no losing. All you have to do is show up and try.




3. Practice as often as you can. The more you practice, the better you get — not that getting better should be your goal. There are no goals in yoga. Just breathe, be, and pretend not to stare at your reflection. You might stare at your reflection, but in time, you’ll stop seeing your flaws and you’ll see instead what isn’t flawed. The way your body bends and responds to a teacher, who will never command, just suggest.




4. If you brush against someone practicing next to you, realize you each have chosen to spend this hour together, in this space, in this way. Get to know the people practicing next to you. Say hi. Smile.




5. Do what you can at your own pace. Getting hurt is not the goal. Testing yourself can be the goal, but only if you’re ready to listen to your body. Don’t stand on your head if you’re not ready to take a fall.




6. And when you’re on your head, remember that you’re in the only position that puts your heart over your head. Love over logic. Who couldn’t benefit from leaping without looking and listening more often to your heart? Don’t talk yourself out of trying; be prepared to not get it right. Notice that you’re not prepared to fail. You’re prepared to do it wrong until you can do it right.

 7. Underwear is optional.


 8. Don’t forget to breathe.