It's Lisa's Root Canal Day

POST-SURGERY UPDATE: I'm home now; the surgery took two & a half hours. My mouth is numb (thankfully) and starting to swell a little and I'm really sleepy. Though not from anything they gave me (I only got novacaine). I'm just one of those people who almost fall asleep in dentists' chairs -- tooth cleaning or major surgery -- it doesn't matter. Though what did keep me awake and entertained was watching most of the surgery (I could see the reflection in the big lens of the microscope she was using). Everything went very well, but the jury's still out on whether it'll work (the damage was in a very bad place). I go back next Thursday to have the stitches out, and she'll evaluate me further then. Going to bed now with my ice pack. I'll post the snippet from The Trouble with Demons tomorrow morning.

Nighty-night.
Lisa


Well, I'm off to get a root canal and some sort of related gum surgery.

Yea. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)

Though I know I work too much when in a sick kinda way I'm looking forward to the whole thing, because my surgeon told me I had to come home afterwards and go directly to bed for the rest of the day. A nap?! In bed?? Really?? WOOT!!

As you fans of my goblins will appreciate, the surgery is on my left "fang." It should only take about two hours (8:30 to 10:30), and when I get home, I'll try to remember to post to let you know how it went -- then I'll put myself to bed.

Thank you all SO MUCH for your supportive thoughts and well wishes! I have the greatest fans ever! : )

I know one thing I won't be trying to do post-surgery before I leave the doctor's office -- put on lipstick. I'm pretty laid back in the dentist chair, so they'll just be giving me lots of novacaine. As some of you ladies might already know, it's completely and utterly impossible to put lipstick on novacaine-numbed lips. I always end up with the stuff on my chin. So I'll be going with chapstick this time, that way if I end up painting my chin, no one will notice.

By popular vote, tomorrow I'll post a snippet from The Trouble with Demons (this one will feature Tam and Talon, with Tam experiencing the trials and tribulations of trying to parent a goblin teenager.). And for those of you who voted for the first page of Bewitched & Betrayed, I'll post that in an upcoming Saturday blog.

Lisa