Netflix, check. Ice cream, check. Vicodin, check. Ice pack, check. Students prepare for their wisdom teeth surgery experiences.

Junior Cameron Paton got his wisdom teeth pulled in the beginning of the summer.

“I was supposed to get my wisdom teeth pulled during winter break but my parents felt it would be better to do once I was out of school,” Paton said.

Paton had been working on his getting his driver’s license right around the time he scheduled his wisdom teeth appointment.

“The only appointment I was able to make with the DMV was the day after my wisdom teeth surgery,” Paton said.  “I thought I could handle it though because I’m tough.”

The night before Paton’s driving test he wasn’t able to sleep or eat because he was in so much pain.

“I was supposed to avoid the pain medication because I wouldn’t be able to drive on them the next morning,” Paton said.

Despite the uncomfortable condition Paton was in when he took the driving test, he successfully passed.

“I think the guy went easy on me because I looked like I’d been through the wringer,” Paton said.

Senior Lucy Skugstad said her wisdom teeth surgery was one of her worst experiences.

“It was terrible,” Skugstad said. “I wasn’t all the way under, so i could hear them crushing my teeth into pieces to get them out.”

Skugstad said her surgery took more than hours, which is long for wisdom teeth.

“During the procedure, my phone died so i didn’t have music or anything to distract me,” Skugstad said.

Skugstad’s mouth stayed numb for a whole 24 hours post procedure.

“I couldn’t eat anything and i was drooling into a bowl and i could not communicate,” Skugstad said. “I had a small mental breakdown at that point.”

Junior Alexandra Darwish got her wisdom teeth pulled over ski week break.

“It was beneficial to get the surgery done over break because I had a decent amount of time to recover,” Darwish said.

Darwish said she was a little nervous before the surgery happened, but once the gas started going, she quickly passed out.

“I kept talking to my mom but I felt extremely loopy so she just laughed at me a lot,” Darwish said.

After the surgery, Darwish tried hard to avoid any communication because it became hard to move her mouth.

“The right side of mouth got really puffy and when I went to soccer the next day, everyone made fun of me,” Darwish said.

Darwish said she ended up having to play in her soccer game that day to help support her team.

“When I ran on the field, I could feel my cheeks bouncing up and down,” Darwish said. “It was all extremely uncomfortable and I was spitting blood by the end of the game.”

Darwish said it is important to take pain medicine on a full stomach and make sure ice cream is accessible in the house.

“Personally, I feel the surgery is worth avoiding,” Darwish said.