turns out the cadaver bone graft really likes my jaw. we’re are one!
all the missing jaw bone that had dissolved away from the infection that i never felt has now been replaced with bone grown from the cadaver graft.
turns out the cadaver bone graft really likes my jaw. we’re are one!
all the missing jaw bone that had dissolved away from the infection that i never felt has now been replaced with bone grown from the cadaver graft.
did i, or did I not, swallow a cadaver bone graft? back visiting the oral surgeon and it turns out, i’m all clear! I am fused with the cadaver graft! which, i guess, makes me a human/cadaver hybrid.
when i told the oral surgeon i hadn’t taken any pain medicine because i hadn’t felt any pain she looked surprised a little skeptical, “maybe you should just be happy you’re not in pain. you’re unusually lucky.”
“i don’t think you understand how much I can overthink this.”
while i was talking on a phone call at work with a lot of participants, the stitches came unstitched and the membrane holding the cadaver bone graft to my mandible popped out. i think i spontaneously muttered something like, “oh [BLEEP], something just fell out my mouth,” to everyone on the call.
it’s not clear if I swallowed the cadaver graft 🙁
soooooo, back to oral surgeon tomorrow. in an uncharacteristic display of restraint I won’t take a picture of membrane.
with a gaping hole in my mouth, i’m back to diet consisting entirely of mushy bananas and yogurt.
still no pain though!