Waking up without teeth.

dori mondon
7 min readSep 3, 2022

What it’s like to come out of anesthesia in a foreign country.

Most Common Dream in Every Country — a map image
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Dreaming into reality.

I don’t remember getting back to my apartment, a spacious, air-conditioned studio I rented in downtown Cancún, Mexico for $32/night, but I woke up in the center of my king-sized bed that next morning with a lot less teeth than I’d had the day before.

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dori mondon

Compulsive storyteller. Typo fixer. Queerdo. Dog and kid mom. Digital DJ nerd. Ada Comstock scholar. I love coffee. A lot. https://ko-fi.com/djemme