I've decided I need to document some stories, events, funny situations that happened long before I became a blogger. So, I'm starting memory Mondays to write about the past. I have found blogging to be such a great way to keep a journal and I feel a little guilty that I've been such a slacker before blogging so here goes.
The first story I want to share is about Kambree. When Kambree was about 15 years old she needed to have her wisdom teeth removed. We had just gotten her braces off and there wasn't room in her mouth for anymore teeth. Her wisdom teeth hadn't come in yet and were impacted so we needed to take her to an oral surgeon to have them extracted.
Now, I don't know if you can tell from the photo's I post but Kambree has incredible eye lashes. I just goop on some mascara and call it good, where as Kambree takes time to curl her lashes and apply an even amount of mascara to each lash and often does two or three coats. She's even gone so far as to have her eyelashes permed. (Which makes my eyes water just thinking about it!)
So, I'm at the oral surgeons office in the recovery room waiting for her to come out from anesthesia and she slowly wakes up. Her mouth if full of cotton so I can barely understand her, the first thing she asks me is.
Kam: "DoooI ve me leshs?" (Translation: Do I have my lashes?)
Me: What?
Kam: Dooo I ve me leshes. (Or something to that effect.)
Me: Do you have your lashes?
Kam: Nod with big serious, sad eyes brimming with tears.
Me: Yes, you have your lashes.
And with that the flood gates open and she breaks into tears.
Me: Are you hurting?
Kam: No
Me: Are you sad?
Kam: No.
Me: What is wrong?
Kam: (Crying) I don't know.....
The nurse walks by, "Oh, we've got a crier!" and explains that sometimes when you come down/wake up from your anesthesia that you come down/wake up sad, for no apparent reason.
She's really sad, she's just crying and crying. I tell the nurse how she's worried about her eye lashes and the nurse starts laughing.
"Oh, I was admiring her lashes right before she went under and told her I might have to steal them." (She was joking of course!)
I hugged Kam and rubbed her back until she woke up enough to get her wits about her.
I will never forget her sad face with her mouth full of cotton asking me if her lashes were missing.
We then went to have her pain med's filled and I thought she should stay in the car but she insisted on coming in to the grocery store with me. She's pretty groggy still so I've got my arm around her shoulders and she's got one wrapped around my waist for support and we slowly make our trek to the back of the store to the pharmacy. She still has a mouth full of cotton but she's smiling at everyone with this silly grin. In time she asks me with her muffled cotton pronunciation:
Kam: Why is everyone looking at me strange?
Me: Um...because you are grinning at everyone with cotton in your mouth, and you look sort of strange?
Kam: I do?
Wow. It's amazing what medication can do. It left this fifteen year old wandering around the grocery store clutching her mother, grinning like a fool, slightly drooling with cotton hanging out of her mouth. This from a girl that normally won't leave the house with our perfect mascaraed lashes!
The first story I want to share is about Kambree. When Kambree was about 15 years old she needed to have her wisdom teeth removed. We had just gotten her braces off and there wasn't room in her mouth for anymore teeth. Her wisdom teeth hadn't come in yet and were impacted so we needed to take her to an oral surgeon to have them extracted.
Now, I don't know if you can tell from the photo's I post but Kambree has incredible eye lashes. I just goop on some mascara and call it good, where as Kambree takes time to curl her lashes and apply an even amount of mascara to each lash and often does two or three coats. She's even gone so far as to have her eyelashes permed. (Which makes my eyes water just thinking about it!)
So, I'm at the oral surgeons office in the recovery room waiting for her to come out from anesthesia and she slowly wakes up. Her mouth if full of cotton so I can barely understand her, the first thing she asks me is.
Kam: "DoooI ve me leshs?" (Translation: Do I have my lashes?)
Me: What?
Kam: Dooo I ve me leshes. (Or something to that effect.)
Me: Do you have your lashes?
Kam: Nod with big serious, sad eyes brimming with tears.
Me: Yes, you have your lashes.
And with that the flood gates open and she breaks into tears.
Me: Are you hurting?
Kam: No
Me: Are you sad?
Kam: No.
Me: What is wrong?
Kam: (Crying) I don't know.....
The nurse walks by, "Oh, we've got a crier!" and explains that sometimes when you come down/wake up from your anesthesia that you come down/wake up sad, for no apparent reason.
She's really sad, she's just crying and crying. I tell the nurse how she's worried about her eye lashes and the nurse starts laughing.
"Oh, I was admiring her lashes right before she went under and told her I might have to steal them." (She was joking of course!)
I hugged Kam and rubbed her back until she woke up enough to get her wits about her.
I will never forget her sad face with her mouth full of cotton asking me if her lashes were missing.
We then went to have her pain med's filled and I thought she should stay in the car but she insisted on coming in to the grocery store with me. She's pretty groggy still so I've got my arm around her shoulders and she's got one wrapped around my waist for support and we slowly make our trek to the back of the store to the pharmacy. She still has a mouth full of cotton but she's smiling at everyone with this silly grin. In time she asks me with her muffled cotton pronunciation:
Kam: Why is everyone looking at me strange?
Me: Um...because you are grinning at everyone with cotton in your mouth, and you look sort of strange?
Kam: I do?
Wow. It's amazing what medication can do. It left this fifteen year old wandering around the grocery store clutching her mother, grinning like a fool, slightly drooling with cotton hanging out of her mouth. This from a girl that normally won't leave the house with our perfect mascaraed lashes!
