Just a quick note to let the family know I survived the surgery and no longer have my own teeth. It went well and I had no complications. Mom is here to take care of me and drove me home from the surgeon. The first few hours home consisted of biting down on gauze to apply pressure to the wounds and spitting up blood. I layed down for a nap at 7pmm (sorry Jana) and mom watched Jana's game. I got back up at about 9:30 and have taken more pain pills/sleep pills and hopefully will sleep through the night now. Since, I didn't know what to really expect with this all I mentally prepared for the worst but can say it is going much better then I expected. I woke up with the whole set of dentures in my mouth. I am beginng to swell up in my face and neck but that is to be expected.
Tomorrow, I go the the dentist at 4pm as he wants to look at how I am healing and how the dentures fit. I will go to him twice a week for 2-3 weeks, then once a week for 2-3 weeks, and gradually decline till I don't see him anymore.
NOW FOR THE WEIRD PART...... the lady who called me back to the room to prep me for surgery was a former resident of Chandler! As she was getting me ready with the monitors, iv's etc.. she asked where I was from and I told her I live in Sioux falls now but originally Chandler and she resonded "wow, no way" I lived there for awhile and then we moved to Slayton. She then asked me if I knew a Darla Vander Woude and I said no thinking this must be someone from Slayton. She said that her Mom used to work at the Chandler bank and is back there again. I asked who that was and she said Theresa Myan (not sure of the spelling). She said her little sister went to a daycare in Chandler and that is when I made the connection that "Darla" was really Delaine Vander Woude. She said Yeah, she took care of my sister and I always remember that they had two cute little blonde girls. I asked her wehre she lived and she said in some apartments by "old lady De Kruif" ( with talking with Mom later she was referring to the old Christian Reformed parsonage next to where Leon and Sharla used to live and "old lady DeKruif " is Harvey DeKruifs mom) then she talked about how they moved to Slayton after the tornado. She said she still knows what she wore, where she was at etc.. every moment about that day. She said everytime June 16 rolls around she always things about that. She then asked if I watched the "Weather Channel" when they had the re-enactment on it. I told her that my nephew and niece played the part of some kids who hid under bed. To which she commented "yeah, I graduated from school with Jamie Van Persum, and that is about how she said "we are under the bed" and her mom thought she said "he is dead". So yeah, kind of ironic to find all this out about someone who is ready to pull my teeth.
That is all from toothless Vonda and caretaker Grandma,
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