Ariel has lost her wisdom teeth

So Ariel was beyond stressed about her "consultation" appointment with the oral surgeon, she made me pinkie promise her before we left that I would do everything I could to not have the surgery that day but postpone it for a few weeks so she could "mentally" prepare for it... She is petrified of everything "medical." I did all I could to help ease her mind that morning. I read to her from my journal about when my wisdom teeth were taken out and how I was back to school the next day and playing sports and washing cars...it was really no big deal and I even got dry sockets. She was not impressed.

When we arrived at the office, the nurse took her blood pressure and pulse. Ariel's pulse was 101 while she was sitting there in the chair. She asked Ariel if she was a little nervous. The doctor comes in looks at the x-rays and tells us all sorts of bad things that could happen if Ariel did not get her wisdom teeth out and the sooner the better. I guess he convinced her to go ahead with it. They let me go back with her to the surgery room and gave her some laughing gas. Within a few seconds she started laughing. She was feeling really good before they even put the IV in. She says she felt the IV going in and it hurt like it normally does, but she didn't even care. She was very impressed with the "magic" gas. As soon as her eyes rolled back in her head, they ushered me to the waiting room.

Ten minutes later the doctor told me she was all done and that she had done great. I went to the back to get her, she was sitting in a big arm chair, her mouth stuffed to overflowing with gauze and she was still laughing. I put that laughing girl into the van and she laughed all the way home. However, a short time later, it wasn't funny anymore. Here are a few cute pictures of her gauze face.