Adult Teething?

True Story:

Last night my friend Meghan and I enjoyed some fine Mexican cuisine.  My favorite!  Chips, salsa, enchiladas, margaritas, the whole shebang!  On the way home I kept rubbing my tongue against something foreign and uncomfortable on the top left-hand side of my mouth, by the very back teeth.  I stuck my finger in and tried to scrape out the particle... no luck.  I got home, immediately brushed my teeth, and felt no relief.  I rubbed my toothbrush some more back there and it wasn't budging.  I think I pushed it further into the gums.  I continued to climb onto the kitchen counter and sit in the sink so I could examine the situation.  Given the unfavorable location I grabbed my powder compact and tried to stick it in my mouth to see what was going on....  I don't know why I didn't just LOOK at the powder compact and KNOW that it wouldn't fit, but I turned it as many different ways as I could and it wasn't going in.  So, next I tried flossing.  Nothing came out.  I rinsed with mouthwash..... twice.  NOTHING! 

After Elise was in bed, I grabbed my toothbrush and went and sat on the couch so I could watch TV and try to dislodge it while I watched TV.  I was certain it was a chip or the outer casing of a refried bean that had wrapped itself around my entire tooth.  The toothbrush was useless and I was starting to screw up the bristles.  Next tool of choice?  A toothpick.  I then proceeded to make my gums bleed.  Back to the bathroom I went.  More flossing and then I tried one of those gum pokers I got from the dentist last time.  That piece of food was not budging.  I finally gave up and decided to go to bed.

I called my dentist's office at 8:02am.  I talked to the fire chief's wife and told her what the situation was.  I asked her if Julie, my dental hygienist could just look at it and get it out with one of her instruments.  She said the dentist would look at in case it was swollen or something.  So, fine a dentist appointment it was.  I showed up, they took me back, and I told my dentist where it was bothering me and that I thought I had some leftover Mexican food stuck in my tooth.  He took a look and said "oh, I see it."  So I'm thinking, "well, is it a chip?  A bean?  I bet it's HUGE!"  Then he said "that's a tooth coming in..."  Seriously?!  A tooth?  He had his assistant take an x-ray, and he showed me where my one and only wisdom tooth is coming in.  He said it would need to be taken out, but in the meantime to take Ibuprofen and swish around salt water for the inflammation.

Talk about feeling like an idiot!!!  So, I guess Elise and I are going to be teething together!