I have since Friday been recovering from surgery: 4 wisdom teeth- 2 impacted- removed. The surgery itself went very well- better than I'd expected. As I sat alone, waiting to be injected with whatever's in that so-called "general anesthesia", I said to myself: "Whatever happens, remember feeling like this: normal. This was a normal and there will be again.

I was injected and was out and back in like blinking. Only foggier. The nurse, when telling my escort, Kathy from the Dean Of Students office (apparently it's their job, this sort of thing, amazing), about "post-extraction care", told me not to worry too much about listening, because "you won't remember any of this later". Ha-ha, fooled you. Though after she said that I did stop trying to focus. I was lucid, though dazed- like trying to stay awake at night when you're a kid, I didn't realize how much I was trying till I stopped, and faded away into drugged comfort.

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