If you double click on the pictures, you can see what is going on with my lip. If you want...haha.
I had a little bump on my lip that turned out to be a mucocele, a swollen salivary gland. I went to the doctor at the best hospital in the world, the Clínica of the University of Navarra, and Dr. Sanchez Carpintero operated on me a week later. It´s been two days since the surgery and there is no more thread left from the 8 stiches and it is healing wonderfully. Everyone assures me that it is definetely less swollen than yesterday!
And the surgery went well! I had to wait about 2 1-2 hours for it to start but then it only took about 40 minutes. The put me under so many sterile sheets and covers and alcohol swab that I hope that my immune system has already kicked back into action so that I don´t catch a cold! Luckily Dr. Sanchez Carpintero speaks English pretty well and kept the operating room lively. They only used local anesthesia but they even put a sterile mask over my entire face except my nose and mouth. It was sticky so now I don´t have to pay to get a facial waxing.... hehe. It was funniest when he would ask my questions like, "Does it hurt now?" ("Me: Yes.")¨"OK, mooooore anesthesia!" But it went fine, I´ve now got 8 stiches inside my mouth. I got some photos post-op with a nurse in the my room.
My lip fortunately has not adopted the appearance of an African bushwoman, in fact, it has definetely gotten smaller since the mucosele is gone! The nurses were asking me after if I had ibuprofen and I was trying to explain to them that I had advil, which they had never heard of but I told them that I thought it was like ibuprofen. Then they asked if it was like "aspirina" and I said "I think" and they told me I defintely not to take. And then that one nurse left the room and another came in and we started a similar round of questions. Finally, she asked me again: "Tienes aspirina?" and I said "Imaginamos que no yo tengo nada para quitar el dolor (Let´s just imagine that I don´t have any pain killer")," to make things more simple.... Then I came home and had lunch, and Crispin and Lili came to visit. They brought cute little flowers that were wrapped in purple paper. The funniest was that Crispin had written a little note on the side "Get well soon, Angelina" accompanied with a little dibujo (drawing) of a little face of a woman with huge lips. Ever since she found out that I despise Angelina Joli, she calls me that all the time. It made me laugh so hard that my lip started bleeding! hehe.
And the surgery went well! I had to wait about 2 1-2 hours for it to start but then it only took about 40 minutes. The put me under so many sterile sheets and covers and alcohol swab that I hope that my immune system has already kicked back into action so that I don´t catch a cold! Luckily Dr. Sanchez Carpintero speaks English pretty well and kept the operating room lively. They only used local anesthesia but they even put a sterile mask over my entire face except my nose and mouth. It was sticky so now I don´t have to pay to get a facial waxing.... hehe. It was funniest when he would ask my questions like, "Does it hurt now?" ("Me: Yes.")¨"OK, mooooore anesthesia!" But it went fine, I´ve now got 8 stiches inside my mouth. I got some photos post-op with a nurse in the my room.
My lip fortunately has not adopted the appearance of an African bushwoman, in fact, it has definetely gotten smaller since the mucosele is gone! The nurses were asking me after if I had ibuprofen and I was trying to explain to them that I had advil, which they had never heard of but I told them that I thought it was like ibuprofen. Then they asked if it was like "aspirina" and I said "I think" and they told me I defintely not to take. And then that one nurse left the room and another came in and we started a similar round of questions. Finally, she asked me again: "Tienes aspirina?" and I said "Imaginamos que no yo tengo nada para quitar el dolor (Let´s just imagine that I don´t have any pain killer")," to make things more simple.... Then I came home and had lunch, and Crispin and Lili came to visit. They brought cute little flowers that were wrapped in purple paper. The funniest was that Crispin had written a little note on the side "Get well soon, Angelina" accompanied with a little dibujo (drawing) of a little face of a woman with huge lips. Ever since she found out that I despise Angelina Joli, she calls me that all the time. It made me laugh so hard that my lip started bleeding! hehe.
Welcome to an elite club, that makes two of us that have had salivary glands removed! Actually you are the only other person I know besides myself that has had one removed. Lets just hope that none of your nerves heal backwards :)
March 14, 2007 12:53 AM
What a coincidence! Do I know you? (haha)
March 19, 2007 11:39 AM