ER - Part 1

It was about 10pm by the time we got to the hospital. I've never been to an ER that was so empty, but it worked well for me as I got tons of attention! They were great, except that I think each nurse and doctor asked what happened.. well when im holding a towel over my mouth to stop the blood, its kind of hard to talk!

Eventually I just pointed to my friends to tell the story. I think every several nurses came by to check out mouth, and im sooo glad i dont know what it looked like. Both of my lips were cut open... so it couldn't have been pretty. I got lots of morphine, which is great! wow did I like that stuff, after a few doses of it the pain started to go away!

They checked out my mouth and saw a thin piece of metal sticking out of my bottom teeth. I used to have a bottom retainer, thus it broke and was sticking out, kind of annoying. The doc's and nurses attempted several times to try to cut it but werent having any luck or any tools to cut metal. It was a little scary to have them attempting to cut metal in my mouth with out a metal cutter. What could go wrong? Its not like i had any thing else going on in my mouth! I think they eventually gave up, whooo, and let the oral surgeon take care of it.

The doc then says to me "There may be a problem, I see something blue in ur mouth.." I tell her its prob my tongue ring.. OH! They then discuss how to get my tongue ring out of my mouth. They are figuring out what tools they have to pull my tongue out, hold it and then untwist the piercing. They arent telling me this directly but since only my mouth is fucked up I can still hear them talking 4 feet away. The ideas they were thinking of were not sounding pleasant or fun. Crazy me says to them, do you need me to take out the ring? Since my tongue is the only thing working properly in my mouth, I simply stick out my tounge and twist off the ring. As im dong this the doc is just looking at me in shock, I just blew their minds! Which they told me about 5 times! Crazy Me!

At this point between the shock, adrenalin & morphine my body temp is changing rapidly every few mins from an extreme cold to sweating. After the x-ray I am given hot warm dryer fresh blankets! I looked like a freakin mummy all wrapped up but it felt so good, plus i was feeling all warm inside as well from the morphine. I was really lucky to have friends/teammate sticking around with me to keep my company and just hold my hand through this whole mess.

Now its time for the oral surgeon to work his magic... I hope...

The Incident

Holy Crap! I went to the singles thing and was trying my best to have a good attitude and smile, who would of thought that would be the last time I'd be able to smile with a full set of teeth, that were mine, for a long time.

Hot DAM! The lat 16hrs have been nuts. They say practice makes perfect but in my case practice hurts - A LOT!

We lost our softball game and none of us could hit the ball so since it was the last game of the night the field was empty, we figured we'd stay and have some batting practice. As i was shagging a ball in center field, with my back to home plate...

Everyone's yelling heads, so i turn to see where the ball is. (i guess that was a error in judgment) I fell to my knees and felt a tooth in my mouth, I felt blood pour out of my mouth and slowly covering my hands. (Which is good since the sight of blood makes me sick). A teammate handing me shirt to cover my mouth and stop the blood. Things got a little fuzzy after that as I was in a shit load of pain and a little of adrenalin.

I'm told that if ya didnt know what was going, it looked like we robbed the field, people were moving so fast and just grabbed everything and anything in site. I get to my car, obviously not able to drive and dont care who drives at this point but all I know i'm in a shit load of pain and need to be at a hospital asap! Yet i look back and there's some teammates strolling down to the cars, no rush at all.. WTF, im bleeding and g-d only knows what it looked like, plus i was in a shit load of pain and kind of freaking out!

The ride to the hosp was not so smooth. I guess it was caravan style, with two cars in front of my car. My teammate/driver was quite the whole ride, didnt say a word just held his unlit cig in his hand. In my mind he was not driving fast enough! Shit I didnt care if we ran a stop sign... i kind of had other shit on my mind... Then at a stop sign, the driver of the 1st car gets out of his car and starts coming towards me in my car! again.. REALLY? I have no freakin idea what he wants but i dont care, nothing he could ask would justify delaying my arrival to the hospital! I motioned him to get back in the car and drive.. but in my head I'm yelling and screaming to DRIVE DRIVE DRIVE!!!!!!!!

We pull up to the hosp, and teammate/driver starts to pull over by the side of the hospital! Not by a door or the ER just stopped the car.. SERIOUSLY? ya.. I motion and try to speak to say NO NO! We get to the ER, the Ambulance entry, i run out of car, coach is there waiting for me, yes he got there way before my car did, due to the pit stop on the side of the hosp. OY! He helps me get into hospital and get medical attention..

Recap: Monday 11/16

Its gonna be along day... My parents left town yesterday, had a great weekend with them and seeing all the family. Debating on going to Jewish singles event at bar, ugs. Its always the same people, who I dont talk or just make small talk, same clicky girls and guys. I have gone to many of these in the past and have come out with the same results! Nothing! But I'll be a good friend and go to support my friend then rush of to softball game, where I know I'll have fun.