College student sends hilarious email to teacher after dental surgery

The side-effects of anesthesia and painkillers have brought some of the Internet’s best and brightest viral moments. Examples include videos like David After Dentist and the husband who adorably hit on his own wife following surgery.

And now it’s happened again.

An email a college student wrote her teaching assistant (TA) while under the influence of “a lot of hydrocodone” has gone viral.

Abby Jo Hamele, a 19-year-old student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, had her wisdom teeth removed before the American Thanksgiving weekend.

Mistakenly believing her philosophy paper was due soon, the less-than-eloquent Hamele emailed her TA, Kevin Patton, to beg for an extension. The problem is, she sent the email right after her dental surgery.

She started off by saying that she had “not been reacting very well to the surgeryy nor the medicatioon i were given/ so I do not thimk that I will be able to habe my paper finisherd by Tuesday at all.”

Hamele then explains that she “will most likely not be normal again until Thanksgiving turkey.”

In order to sweeten the deal, Hamele offers to buy her TA dry erase markers for the classroom’s whiteboard. She also promises “to nswer youpr questions in class forever so theere are not any more awkard silence.”

Hamele ends her correspondence on a personal note, calling her teacher “Kevin, my dude.” She then signs it: “love you bye.”

Hamele, who has no memory of writing the email, posted it to her Twitter, where it’s received thousands of retweets and comments. She also posted her teacher’s response, which begins with: “This email was, uh, a bit unorthodox.”

Luckily for Hamele, no extension was needed since the paper was actually due on a later date.

To quote her teacher, we too hope Hamele’s spelling was much better in her paper!