A quick post, before another storm moves in and I shut down the computer…

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It’s almost 6pm, and I have finally ingested my first meal of the day.

I’m not counting the meal replacement shake, because… no.

As soon as the earliest dental clinic in the next town was open, I called to see if they could fit me in – after checking to see if they did direct billing with our insurance company.  Which they did, and they could.  I got an appointment for the afternoon.  Yay!

I then spent the next while, doing work on the computer, and trying to figure out what we had that I could safely eat.  It wasn’t just needing soft food.  Even soft food getting in there could cause more of the tooth to break up.

Before I finally decided (I was leaning towards egg flower soup), I got a call back from them.  Could I be there by 11:15?  It was 10:53.  I could leave right then and there!

By the time I parked and walked in the door, it was just a few minutes past 11:15.  After the paperwork was done, I barely had time to sit down when I was being called to come in.

The hygienist got started on me with getting an Xray, as I told her about the history of the tooth, and the troubles the dentist who did the root canal had had with it, because of a bent root.  She got me to bite on the thing to get the Xray, but had to do it twice, just to get it far back enough.  The screen for the Xray was facing me, so we could both see the problem root.

Then, just before the dentist came in, I pulled out another piece of tooth.  Just getting the Xray taken broke off more.

I’d already told the hygienist that I was more interested in just having it pulled, but it turned out to not be a choice.  There wasn’t enough of it left to do anything else.  The dentist even had to break it apart to take each root out, individually.

As I knew would happen, because apparently I have some pretty massive bone density (this is not the first tooth I’ve lost), this took quite a bit of effort.

But that was okay.  I got to lie in a massage chair and watch You Gotta Eat Here on the TV in the ceiling.

Though requesting it be put on The Food Network was probably not the best of ideas, considering how hungry I was.  :-D

However, it was done, and because it was just a pull and not any major work, it actually cost much less than I feared.  Which is good, because I then had to go to the grocery store and buy more pain killers for when the freezing wore off, and food that I could safely eat.

I had to wait 4-6 hours before trying to eat, though I could drink water.  I have a gauze to bite on that needs to be changed every hour.  Starting tomorrow, I need to swish with salt water after eating anything.

I am, however, good to go for the big family dinner on Sunday, even if I won’t be able to eat certain foods.  I just have to bring my bottle of salt water with me.

So that is done!

On the home front, it was an indoor day. The girls kindly made supper, though I could only eat the perogies they made.  Very, very carefully.  Oh, I was so hungry by then!

It was too hot to safely do any yard work today, anyhow, and while it’s cooler now (a mere 26C *L*), it has quickly gotten very dark, and I can hear thunder and see flashes of lightning in the distance.  We’ll see if we get the sort of downpours we got yesterday or not.  Until then, I think I’ll just shut down the desktop computer, just to be safe!

The Re-Farmer