Healthier, Happier, B

Breakfast, morning shell walk, and a crispy Diet Coke on the beach. First full day is starting off amazing 🐚

Packed a roasted turkey and cheddar sandwich on Hawaiian bread with stone ground mustard and pickles for lunch with a bag of salt and vinegar chips. We got individual bags and those are much easier for me because I feel like I can let myself have them easier without worrying about how many I’m eating. Plus I packed some watermelon and a cutie.

Girls trip is underway! About 3 hours left in our drive and it’s so much fun already.

Date night before my girls trip! I had some zhong style chicken dumplings and a couple bites of pizza and then a small cup of Kilwin’s tracks 😋 should still be right around maintenance calories today!

Lunchtime 🤤 finished up the last of the chicken and dumplings!

This morning has been SO productive. I’ve gotten 90% of everything on my work list crossed off that I needed to get done today already.

Resisting the urge to unpack and go through my outfits again lol

Period was extra light and short this month but that’s antibiotics 🤪 thankful that it’s over but unfortunately my next cycle will start the Monday/Tuesday following my surgery so I will be at peak PMS anxiety the Thursday I’m scheduled for. Thank god they gave me a Valium to take. I’ve done good about not googling or getting on reddit to read stories today- I know it’s not productive and it just makes my anxiety worse.

Bringing a few foods with me on the girls trip and packed a little snack box to enjoy on the drive. I don’t typically love eating breakfast at the beach because it can cause stomach issues getting so hot right after but I have to because antibiotics 😩

My snack box will be a blueberry sola bagel cut up into bites, whipped cream cheese, a handful of shameless tropical gummies, a Hormbles Chormbles salted fudge bar, and a serving of the Wilde crackers.

That’s breakfast and road trip snacks for about 500 cal/38g of protein.

We will inevitably stop at Chick-fil-A for lunch so I can get a 12 count nuggets + Diet Coke + bbq sauce for lunch (420ish calories/41g protein) or maybe backup is finding a Wawa.

Alexa play Jack Johnson radio

TGIF!!! Just one day of work stands between me and my girls trip. Have a few things to check off my personal list today, got a lot of work stuff to do, then date night with my love, and applying press ons.

Good morning from the gym. I slept exceptionally well last night.

They’re only extracting 3 wisdom teeth. The 4th one is deeply lodged into my jawbone still and he said he didn’t have a good enough reason to remove it when weighed against the risks (permanent nerve damage) because it’s really close to a nerve. He doesn’t think it will cause me any issues in the future to leave it. They redid my xray to re-examine it and they’re glad they did because you couldn’t see the proximity to the nerve on the original xray.

*Edit to add to this ^ I was initially disappointed that they’re not taking them all 4 out (and lowkey I still am) but I feel good about the fact that he evaluated them all individually and decided against it. To me that means that it isn’t a cash grab for him/his clinic and he actually cares about his patients

They don’t do the PRF thing here but he said he does a minimally invasive suturing process that gets his patients back faster than normal.

Got prescriptions ready to be filled.

I will be under IV sedation and got a Valium to take morning of. Said I should be in and out in less than an hour and most of his patients only take 3 days to recover.

And I should only have to pay $612 total! They’re able to bill all of the sedation and one of the teeth to my medical insurance. It’s just an estimate but the billing coordinator said she was pretty confident.

Anesthesia: I need to be fully unaware of what’s happening. Can’t see anything or hear anything or I will panic. Preferably an anxiety pill to take morning of, numbing for IV insertion site, and IV administered anesthesia.

Can I receive PRF platelet rich fibrin? Extra cost? Can they do the blood draw for this after I’m knocked out?

How early can we get me in to have the surgery? How long will the procedure take day or?

How will my insurance be billed, and can I get a pretreatment estimate before the procedure? Can medical insurance be billed to cover anything particularly IV sedation since 2 are at least partially impacted?

Recovery time? Leave for Iceland September 11

Specific instructions - give to me and Clay, when stitches dissolve, irrigation of holes, medications available (I don’t want to be in any pain), timeline for eating solids

Medications - can we get scripts to fill ahead of time? Pain? Nausea?

Stitches? Can I get dissolvable ones?

After hours number to call with questions or an emergency? What constitutes as an emergency/ should worry us?

Do I need to book a follow up appointment?

Homeopathic - pineapple juice and arnica tablets? Would they hurt or impede recovery?

Return to gym time? Long walks?

Lunch is more blended cottage cheese and tomato soup with soft bread.