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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014 10:45 pm
Aside from reading and a little housework, day wiped out by dentistry. Also night. Very annoying that quite minor procedures now seem to trigger weeks-long freakouts in my mouth. So for a while this evening I was in that kind of pain that makes you want to throw up, and now the tramadol has truly kicked in and I'm too druggy to be useful.

It's not the actual dental work. All that happened was my temporary crowns were pulled off quite easily, and the permanent (titanium!) ones put on. It's hard to describe this, but the teeth and innards of mhy mouth actually feel quite good: it's the nerves in my lower jaws that have gone nuts. It's the upper teeth that were worked on. It's always like this. I think it might be a reaction to the anesthetic. But not doing tghe anesthetic is not a viable alternative because my jaw nerves freak out like that when I have a little thing done without anesthetic too.

It will pass, in three or four weeks. This time I'm prepared with a Tramadol prescription.

I do love having precious metal teeth -- two gold and three platinum, now. No porcelain or resion teeth for me. Theyh just crack into little bits sooner rather than later, even with my fancy-dancy mouth guard. My mother didn't actually live to be my age, but at the age she did live to, she had like five teeth still actually in her head, and a verhy complicated ujpper plate to take up the slack. So dentistry's come a long ways in what it can do for people. Though my not smokng may have something to do with it too.

On another front, last Friday I did a dance I've been avoiding beczause of having to slide-turn and drag the feet in a way that was giving me trouble. And I had no trouble. After four years I can sayh I'm finally actually learning to dance.

On a still further front, apparently comfort food is now parsnip gratin with a sauce made of chicken drippings and a bunch of vegetable and citrus peels and ends, deeply reduced and strained and chicken added to it.
Thursday, February 20th, 2014 03:02 pm (UTC)
That is, to put it way too mildly, uncomfortable. You need comfort food for sure.

This sounds as though it interfered with your birthday, but I wished you Happy Birthday anyway!

Love, C.
Thursday, February 20th, 2014 03:39 pm (UTC)
Whatever birthday you see listed for me is a fake. I hate the day of my birthday (it's a prominent saints' day and I didn't want to be associated with it) so I used to encrypt it whenever I wasn't allowed to hide it. I should stop it, since I no longer care very much and I have learned to accept whatever goodwill people show me. Particularly since I have no idea what birthday is displayed . . .

Thank you for the thoughts! I'm actually having a very good time in general, I just wanted to grouse a little about this ridiculous thing my jaw nerves do for no good reason.
Thursday, February 20th, 2014 04:45 pm (UTC)
That's great to hear -- that generally you're enjoying yourself!

Love, C>