tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6915429003924140388.post9186722870374915461..comments2023-07-01T05:41:51.010-07:00Comments on Letters from Caroline: RamblingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6915429003924140388.post-77983871892951955592012-04-18T14:19:48.764-07:002012-04-18T14:19:48.764-07:00I don't know whether mice actually eat teeth, ...I don't know whether mice actually eat teeth, but rodents can chew lots of things that I can't. They may have harder teeth, and their incisors grow continuously throughout their lives, so they can probably chew things of equal hardness to their own teeth, since even if chew-er and chew-ee wear away at equal rates, the mouse teeth grow back. Mice do eat bone and antler--and they did help eat the whale skull on the beach.<br /><br />As I think I described, anesthesia was not instant, in or out, for me. It felt very much like sleep, only more so. I don't know what chemicals they used, but the dentist told me that he was going to give me "the first" of the drugs, implying a series. The first one put me out, though.<br /><br />Interestingly, I remember hearing that all chemicals that cause general anesthesia have something else in common as well; they are all soluble in olive oil.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138955146447744004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6915429003924140388.post-40967871010378083952012-04-18T14:00:15.569-07:002012-04-18T14:00:15.569-07:00Hi Caroline, your dad here, tho my comments are pr...Hi Caroline, your dad here, tho my comments are probably near universal. Yes, even before your age I had my wisdoms extracted, and it was under total anaesthetic, which then meant, I think, sodium pentathol, known at that time as "truth serum," for it's cloak and dagger reputation for extracting information out of those whose will needed to be compromised. You counted down from one hundred, and stopped when your conciousness stopped, so they knew you were under. I usually got down to about 93, and the rush came on like gin at keystone cops speed-up. Nowadays it's more of what they call a "cocktail," a mix of stuff? Anyway, it no longer feels the same. For one thing, it's not darkness you emerge from afterward, but snowy blankness, and it happens instantly. After entering the state instantly, without your body first saying, "oh-ho..."<br /><br />I have since suffered what I hope you never do, a major mouth extraction. I have had to suffer the removal of all my teeth in my upper jaw, most of which were not in themselves a problem, but nevertheless critical to an overall issue.<br />I did not enjoy the option of general anaesthesia: I had to endure being literally bodily torn apart, and feel as such to this day.<br /><br />How would mice, with mammalian teeth, chew mammalian teeth? I regularly put food-left-over seashells in my compost, so their mineral content will so disperse. But direct mouse access?<br /><br />Congratulations on your birdsong identification. I'm happy to see your imagination is youthful enough to care. I used to look up at the stars and dream. I still dream, but I don't look up at the stars anymore to do it. I'm not dead yet but some things in me have died. Sorry.Douglas Moreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04099801496427563771noreply@blogger.com