Not as swollen as I expected, but I'm taking ibuprofen. So that makes it easier!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Procedure...Done
I got my wisdom teeth removed yesterday! It went really well surprisingly. All the teeth came out relatively easy (except the sideways one, but that was expected) and I even laughed sometimes during the procedure! My dentist was leaning on the water hose and he kept spraying himself, so I laughed, and I had blood in my mouth, so because I was laughing, I accidentally spit some blood up close to the nurse, so she laughed. It was a good time haha. Afterwards she told me she never had a patient that laughed when they were pulling teeth. So at least I was able to keep some good moods about it :) So far recovery has been pretty good, except yesterday I fainted (That was scary) I barely ate anything yesterday so I was really hungry. Then I took a T-3 and went and had a hot bath...not so smart. After I got out of the bath, I went downstairs to hug my mom before going to bed, and I blacked out for a good thirty seconds. I couldn't see or hear anything, and I "woke" up slowly to my mom yelling at me seeing if I was ok I still couldn't hear her really and I was really dazed and didn't know what was going on. so she sat me on the couch and I threw up and could hear and was finally able to be coherent. It was definitely scary. My mom thought I was going to seizure. But today, I'm doing much better. A lot more sore and swollen then yesterday, and Logan requested a picture of my chipmunk face, so here it is. I just woke up when we took this picture, so bear with me :P
Not as swollen as I expected, but I'm taking ibuprofen. So that makes it easier!
Not as swollen as I expected, but I'm taking ibuprofen. So that makes it easier!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Are You ready for some real pain?
I'm sure not! But I'm going to have to deal with it!
I went to the dentist yesterday to get my wisdom teeth looked at, because I keep biting my cheek. I went in there thinking that they're all going to be fine because my one came in perfectly straight with no pain or anything. BUT then we got the x-ray pictures back and oh boy. I have to get them removed in a week. That was quick! The one that came in straight is fine, but they're probably going to remove it anyways so it doesn't cause any future grief. One of them is still under the gums and is infected, the other one won't have enough room to come in...and the other one....is growing completely sideways into my other molars!!! My molar has a little dent in it from my wisdom tooth, and if the damage is too much, they'll have to take my molar out too! Yikes. They'll also have to break that wisdom tooth into a few pieces to get it out because it's still under the gum, and it's sideways. I'm also going to be awake for the whole thing....I think that's the worst part! Oh well, the sooner I get them out the sooner it'll go away. So here goes! Ready from some good pain, a fat face for a couple days, and lots of cheek bruising haha.
I went to the dentist yesterday to get my wisdom teeth looked at, because I keep biting my cheek. I went in there thinking that they're all going to be fine because my one came in perfectly straight with no pain or anything. BUT then we got the x-ray pictures back and oh boy. I have to get them removed in a week. That was quick! The one that came in straight is fine, but they're probably going to remove it anyways so it doesn't cause any future grief. One of them is still under the gums and is infected, the other one won't have enough room to come in...and the other one....is growing completely sideways into my other molars!!! My molar has a little dent in it from my wisdom tooth, and if the damage is too much, they'll have to take my molar out too! Yikes. They'll also have to break that wisdom tooth into a few pieces to get it out because it's still under the gum, and it's sideways. I'm also going to be awake for the whole thing....I think that's the worst part! Oh well, the sooner I get them out the sooner it'll go away. So here goes! Ready from some good pain, a fat face for a couple days, and lots of cheek bruising haha.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
A Few Hawaii Pics...finally :)
So, I'm finally getting around to getting some of our pictures up (Sorry about the underline...I don't know why it's on) But here are only a few!!
Dad watching the "Dark Knight" at about 3 or 4 in the morning. we thought it was too funny that he chose to relax in a wheel chair :) In all fairness, he was "Charging his laptop."
Mom and Marlys, just shortly after we found out our last hope of getting out of Seattle was cancelled. So we decided to document our Christmas vacation in the airport just in case we never actually made it :)
Kyle Dad and Terry after hearing the bad news...for the fourth time.
The view from Mom,Dad and My room. A little stormy back in the hills that day.
The view from Marlys, Terry and Kyle's room (Just across the hall from us) That beach straight ahead is Waikiki beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
My cute sister videotaping the action on our first day exploring. This is Waikiki Beach.
The second or third day, we made our way to Pearl Harbor. This is the Battleship Missouri. This ship has quite the history. Wikipedia it or something sometime. The Japanese actually signed the surrender in World War 2 on this ship!
The plaque commemorating the surrender. It was soon after built into the deck of the ship.
And this is I think one of two recycle bins we saw in our entire trip in Hawaii. Surprisingly, you'd think they'd recycle their cans more. Marlys and I joked about writing "Don't" after "we" on the bin :)
This was my favorite place to visit. Lovely Hanauma bay. The snorkelling was great!
This is the coral reef that we got to go snorkelling in in Hanauma bay.
Kyle, Terry, Mom and Dad going snorkelling in Hanauma bay.
We went to an authentic Luau on Christmas day! It was great!
The roast pig coming out of the underground oven. SO delicious!
And the sunset on Christmas day :)
Dad watching the "Dark Knight" at about 3 or 4 in the morning. we thought it was too funny that he chose to relax in a wheel chair :) In all fairness, he was "Charging his laptop."
Mom and Marlys, just shortly after we found out our last hope of getting out of Seattle was cancelled. So we decided to document our Christmas vacation in the airport just in case we never actually made it :)
Kyle Dad and Terry after hearing the bad news...for the fourth time.
The view from Mom,Dad and My room. A little stormy back in the hills that day.
The view from Marlys, Terry and Kyle's room (Just across the hall from us) That beach straight ahead is Waikiki beach, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
My cute sister videotaping the action on our first day exploring. This is Waikiki Beach.
The second or third day, we made our way to Pearl Harbor. This is the Battleship Missouri. This ship has quite the history. Wikipedia it or something sometime. The Japanese actually signed the surrender in World War 2 on this ship!
The plaque commemorating the surrender. It was soon after built into the deck of the ship.
And this is I think one of two recycle bins we saw in our entire trip in Hawaii. Surprisingly, you'd think they'd recycle their cans more. Marlys and I joked about writing "Don't" after "we" on the bin :)
This was my favorite place to visit. Lovely Hanauma bay. The snorkelling was great!
This is the coral reef that we got to go snorkelling in in Hanauma bay.
Kyle, Terry, Mom and Dad going snorkelling in Hanauma bay.
We went to an authentic Luau on Christmas day! It was great!
The roast pig coming out of the underground oven. SO delicious!
And the sunset on Christmas day :)
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Something to Pray for in the New Year...
Deliver me Jesus
From the desire of being loved;
from the desire of being honored;
from the desire of being praised;
from the desire of being preferred to others;
from the desire of being consulted;
from the desire of being approved;
from the fear of being humiliated;
from the fear of being despised;
from the fear of suffering rebuke;
from the fear of being forgotten;
from the fear of being wrong;
from the fear of being suspected;
And Jesus, grant me the grace to desire that others might be loved more than I;
That others might be more esteemed than I;
that in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I decrease;
that others may be chosen, and I set aside;
that others may be praised and I unnoticed;
that others may be preferred to me in everything;
that others may become holier than I, provided that I become as holy as I should.
We received this one night at the bible study back in Sexsmith and I just found it again today. I hope it'll humble you as it has humbled me. Happy new years everyone!
From the desire of being loved;
from the desire of being honored;
from the desire of being praised;
from the desire of being preferred to others;
from the desire of being consulted;
from the desire of being approved;
from the fear of being humiliated;
from the fear of being despised;
from the fear of suffering rebuke;
from the fear of being forgotten;
from the fear of being wrong;
from the fear of being suspected;
And Jesus, grant me the grace to desire that others might be loved more than I;
That others might be more esteemed than I;
that in the opinion of the world, others may increase and I decrease;
that others may be chosen, and I set aside;
that others may be praised and I unnoticed;
that others may be preferred to me in everything;
that others may become holier than I, provided that I become as holy as I should.
We received this one night at the bible study back in Sexsmith and I just found it again today. I hope it'll humble you as it has humbled me. Happy new years everyone!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Lovely Hawaiin Song
On Christmas day our family went to a luau (with the roast whole pig and everything!) On the way there, we had an "escort" who entertained us on the bus ride and boy was he absolutely hilarious!! I wish I could have videotaped all his jokes, but he was just pulling them off the top of his head like nothing! When we passed other buses from the luau, he told the driver to turn on the lights, and for us to bounce up and down in our seats so it looked like we were having lots of fun haha. Then he said if any of them pass us and try to do the same, we'll turn on the lights and wave the other direction because nobody has fun when no one notices :) it was a great bus ride haha. Anyways, He taught all of us this song:
Just Hang Loose
And Just Have Fun
Sippin' on a drink,
Lyin' in the sun
Don't try to fight it
It ain't no use
Cause when you're in Hawaii
You should just hang loose
That song was then stuck in our head the rest of the hawaiin trip, but it was fun! :)
Just Hang Loose
And Just Have Fun
Sippin' on a drink,
Lyin' in the sun
Don't try to fight it
It ain't no use
Cause when you're in Hawaii
You should just hang loose
That song was then stuck in our head the rest of the hawaiin trip, but it was fun! :)
Monday, December 29, 2008
O Canada!!
We are home!! We flew in to Edmonton today at around 12:30 in the afternoon. It has been nothing but smooth flights. all of our flights were on time this time, and we received all of our baggage. It was so great. We left Honolulu last night at 10 pm ( 1 am alberta time) and arrived in Seattle at 5 am (6 am Alberta time) then we had a five hour layover. It was really great!! The vacation was wonderful, the trip home was wonderful, and everything just worked out!! I'll be sure to put pictures up sometime. I just don't know when! Hopefully before I go to GP this weekend! I'll try my hardest!! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Finally arrived!!!
I'm writing this in on the 6th floor of our hotel room in lovely Oahu Hawaii!! It's so beautiful here and warm and relaxing. Tomorrow we're going to Hanauma bay to go snorkelling and swimming all day! I'm so excited. I would love to put a few pictures up, but i'm on my dad's laptop which doesn't have photoshop so it is unable to process my pictures. The reason I'm writing this post today is to tell you the story of our wonderful adventure on trying our very hardest to make it to Hawaii.
It started on saturday the 20th. We left our home in Edmonton around 10:30 because our flight left edmonton at around 1:20. So we arrived, checked our baggage and whatnot, then flew to seattle at about 1:30. All seemed to be going really well and everyone was so excited! We made it there a little late (around 2:30) but we werent worried because our flight to Honolulu didn't leave until 5:30. We happened to land in Seattle during a snowstorm (which is very strange for Seattle) but we figured nothing of it because we've seen MUCH worse and it was in fact snowing in Edmonton when we left. So we hung around, played some games and had something to eat. We kept making sure our plane was leaving at the right time, but found that it wasn't supposed to take off until an hour later (6:30) We thought whatever, we'll just arrive in honolulu round midnight. Oh how wrong we were. They boarded all of us passengers onto the plane, and we ended up sitting on the plane at the gate for 5 hours!!!! You could tell seattle obviously never got snow because they had I think three snow removal trucks out on the runways trying to clear it, and only 2 de-icing trucks! It was a disaster!! We got de-iced about 2 hours after we had been in the plane (we were waiting in line for de-icing) but then we had to wait to take off (which ended up being another 2 hours. By then, our de-icing had worn off so we needed to get de-iced again. This time we actually made it to the runway. We were getting excited thinking we were finally going to be able to take off, but our hopes were dashed when the pilot announced that the runways weren't clear and we were going to have to cancel the flight for that night. Everyone left the plane extremely grouchy. They also promised us a flight the next morning at about 11:30. So we thought we'd just get a hotel room and come back in the morning. But to our dismay, when we called, we couldn't get a hotel room. So we ended up staying in the "comfy" airport overnight. It was so cold and we had to sleep on the floor. We found out our flight was cancelled at midnight, so we'd already been there for 10 hours. And now we had to stay another twelve until our flight.
That was one of the longest nights I've ever had, and I think any of us were lucky to get 3 hours of sleep. We all woke up around 6 or 7 and just waited around, had breakfast and kept watching the board for our flight. Come nine o'clock, my dad happened to find out that the company we were flying with, actually used our plane to fly people to minneapolis only about an hour earlier! We were so mad because we would have been able to fly out the night before (It wasn't a very bad snowstorm at all, and planes take off in canada in that weather all the time, i'll show you pictures) So now we were going to miss a full day and a half of our time here. We ended up paying for a hotel room and car rental we didn't use, and were facing another night in the airport. After that, the company put us (along with 240 other angry passengers) on standby for their plane leaving at 5:30 (which was already fully booked) We pretty much gave up hope on that flight because there were 240 people who were supposed to leave the night before trying to get on that plane. My dad called his travel agent and asked her if there were any more options (where we wouldn't have to pay) and she ended up setting us up with another flight that landed on a different hawaiin island, but had a connecting flight to honolulu. We transferred our tickets and went through security again just in time to make it to the next gate. We had an hour left before we were supposed to board, and low and behold, they cancelled our flight yet again because the airport (rather the company) ran out of de-icer. We were so exausted and angry, and hopeless, that we were deciding to just head back to Edmonton and have christmas at home. So we walked back to the Northwest gate (the company we were originally trying to fly with) and were going to see about cancelling our tickets and transferring to an edmonton flight. While we were there we noticed that there was a plane flying to honolulu around 5:30. So my dad decided to try one more time, and if that didn't work out, we were going to fly home. We were able to board that plane (on stand by) because there were empty seats. and we actually were able to fly out of there around 10:30 seattle time (11:30 alberta time) We arrived in Honolulu at about 3 am Hawaiin time (7 am alberta time) and went to get our bags. Oh, I should also mention that when we went to transfer our tickets to that other airline, we went to get our bags and found out they already sent them to honolulu. So we arrived in honolulu to get our bags, and were told that 4 of them weren't there!! we were so frustrated and exhausted and we'd already been in our clothes for three days, so we just wanted to get to our hotel to rest. We sent out a mising baggage description and asked if they could send them on the next flight out. (That was early monday morning) and we just received our baggage finally this morning!!!!
It was an exhausting and such a frustrating trip, but we are so thankful to be here safe and fine. We aren't happy with the airline service along with 240 othe people (If you'd seen how not bad the weather was, you'd understand) but we're just laughing it off now, and calling it an adventure! We've been touring around lots, and in fact, Marlys can barely walk now because of all of our touring. We have yet to go swimming in the ocean but that is tomorrow's day! I miss all of you and hope to talk to you soon! Have a wonderful Christmas!
It started on saturday the 20th. We left our home in Edmonton around 10:30 because our flight left edmonton at around 1:20. So we arrived, checked our baggage and whatnot, then flew to seattle at about 1:30. All seemed to be going really well and everyone was so excited! We made it there a little late (around 2:30) but we werent worried because our flight to Honolulu didn't leave until 5:30. We happened to land in Seattle during a snowstorm (which is very strange for Seattle) but we figured nothing of it because we've seen MUCH worse and it was in fact snowing in Edmonton when we left. So we hung around, played some games and had something to eat. We kept making sure our plane was leaving at the right time, but found that it wasn't supposed to take off until an hour later (6:30) We thought whatever, we'll just arrive in honolulu round midnight. Oh how wrong we were. They boarded all of us passengers onto the plane, and we ended up sitting on the plane at the gate for 5 hours!!!! You could tell seattle obviously never got snow because they had I think three snow removal trucks out on the runways trying to clear it, and only 2 de-icing trucks! It was a disaster!! We got de-iced about 2 hours after we had been in the plane (we were waiting in line for de-icing) but then we had to wait to take off (which ended up being another 2 hours. By then, our de-icing had worn off so we needed to get de-iced again. This time we actually made it to the runway. We were getting excited thinking we were finally going to be able to take off, but our hopes were dashed when the pilot announced that the runways weren't clear and we were going to have to cancel the flight for that night. Everyone left the plane extremely grouchy. They also promised us a flight the next morning at about 11:30. So we thought we'd just get a hotel room and come back in the morning. But to our dismay, when we called, we couldn't get a hotel room. So we ended up staying in the "comfy" airport overnight. It was so cold and we had to sleep on the floor. We found out our flight was cancelled at midnight, so we'd already been there for 10 hours. And now we had to stay another twelve until our flight.
That was one of the longest nights I've ever had, and I think any of us were lucky to get 3 hours of sleep. We all woke up around 6 or 7 and just waited around, had breakfast and kept watching the board for our flight. Come nine o'clock, my dad happened to find out that the company we were flying with, actually used our plane to fly people to minneapolis only about an hour earlier! We were so mad because we would have been able to fly out the night before (It wasn't a very bad snowstorm at all, and planes take off in canada in that weather all the time, i'll show you pictures) So now we were going to miss a full day and a half of our time here. We ended up paying for a hotel room and car rental we didn't use, and were facing another night in the airport. After that, the company put us (along with 240 other angry passengers) on standby for their plane leaving at 5:30 (which was already fully booked) We pretty much gave up hope on that flight because there were 240 people who were supposed to leave the night before trying to get on that plane. My dad called his travel agent and asked her if there were any more options (where we wouldn't have to pay) and she ended up setting us up with another flight that landed on a different hawaiin island, but had a connecting flight to honolulu. We transferred our tickets and went through security again just in time to make it to the next gate. We had an hour left before we were supposed to board, and low and behold, they cancelled our flight yet again because the airport (rather the company) ran out of de-icer. We were so exausted and angry, and hopeless, that we were deciding to just head back to Edmonton and have christmas at home. So we walked back to the Northwest gate (the company we were originally trying to fly with) and were going to see about cancelling our tickets and transferring to an edmonton flight. While we were there we noticed that there was a plane flying to honolulu around 5:30. So my dad decided to try one more time, and if that didn't work out, we were going to fly home. We were able to board that plane (on stand by) because there were empty seats. and we actually were able to fly out of there around 10:30 seattle time (11:30 alberta time) We arrived in Honolulu at about 3 am Hawaiin time (7 am alberta time) and went to get our bags. Oh, I should also mention that when we went to transfer our tickets to that other airline, we went to get our bags and found out they already sent them to honolulu. So we arrived in honolulu to get our bags, and were told that 4 of them weren't there!! we were so frustrated and exhausted and we'd already been in our clothes for three days, so we just wanted to get to our hotel to rest. We sent out a mising baggage description and asked if they could send them on the next flight out. (That was early monday morning) and we just received our baggage finally this morning!!!!
It was an exhausting and such a frustrating trip, but we are so thankful to be here safe and fine. We aren't happy with the airline service along with 240 othe people (If you'd seen how not bad the weather was, you'd understand) but we're just laughing it off now, and calling it an adventure! We've been touring around lots, and in fact, Marlys can barely walk now because of all of our touring. We have yet to go swimming in the ocean but that is tomorrow's day! I miss all of you and hope to talk to you soon! Have a wonderful Christmas!
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