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bugshaw at 08:43am on 18/10/2006
bugshaw at 08:43am on 18/10/2006I woke up this morning and found I look like a hamster.
I had dental surgery yesterday (an apicectomy to an upper right incisor), and now my cheek has swollen. It's barely perceptible to an outside viewer (when I look hard in the mirror I say dubiously "I suppose I can see a swelling..."), but it's enough to distort my facial outline in my peripheral vision. You know the "ghost nose" you have, that you hardly ever notice unless something happens to it? I now have a ghost hamster pouch just on one side, and it's very distracting. It looks so distended, as if it is protruding an inch further out from normal, that I am surprised the actual cheek shows so little change.
( The operation, cut for squeamishness, use of the s-word, and use of two i-words... )
I had dental surgery yesterday (an apicectomy to an upper right incisor), and now my cheek has swollen. It's barely perceptible to an outside viewer (when I look hard in the mirror I say dubiously "I suppose I can see a swelling..."), but it's enough to distort my facial outline in my peripheral vision. You know the "ghost nose" you have, that you hardly ever notice unless something happens to it? I now have a ghost hamster pouch just on one side, and it's very distracting. It looks so distended, as if it is protruding an inch further out from normal, that I am surprised the actual cheek shows so little change.
( The operation, cut for squeamishness, use of the s-word, and use of two i-words... )
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