Well, it's all about more waiting now! I got the biopsy yesterday. I was in and out of the oral surgeons office in 20 minutes flat. He used novacaine. I have to wonder about the novacaine he used, though. It wasn't like the novacaine I've gotten in the dentist office. It worked super fast. He told me if I feel any pinching, to tell him right away. (I find it funny they always say to tell them stuff, when they're doing things in your mouth and you can't talk with their hands in there! I know he meant I could raise my hand or whatever, but still) What reallys ucked was he gave me three shots of novacaine. The shots themselves hurt in the roof of your mouth. But the worst was the one he gave me way in the back up there. It made it very difficult to swallow, and it felt like my throat was swollen almost shut or something. Oh, that was just terrible! That feeling of not being able to swallow and feeling like I was choking! He told me while he was doing it, that I'd feel a "little pressure". Well, he was wrong. That super novacaine he used, I felt NOTHING! I was quite impressed! He is such a nice doctor. He couldn't put any stitches in, he said, so I have two holes in the roof of my mouth about the size of say, you could stick an eraser of a #2 pencil in there easily. It took a good while to stop bleeding. It's a little hard to eat stuff, too. Can't eat anything hard, gotta watch hot things, etc. My face is swolen today, and my lips too. It's not too bad, though. For pain I'm taking advil and aleive. It helps some. It's weird because my throat and sinuses hurt, too. He used a 15 blade scapel, I guess. (that's what the assistant said he would be using.)
So I go back on the 23rd for my results and follow up. I'll probably go mad waiting, but I'm going to try to just keep busy so I don't think much about it. The oral surgeon never did say what he thought it might be. He was looking at me though like he felt sorry for me or something. I could see it in his eyes. Maybe he looks at everyone like that, though!
I think that sucks you had to fly home to go get your prescriptions! Could the doctor not have called them in to a pharmacy close to where you were or something?
I hope you all have a lovely day!

Pickle