Silver linings

# Chapter 297

“No sweet, no cold, no sour” the doctor told me, as I was getting ready to leave her office after five shots of Novocain, five teeth ground down and prepared for new crowns, almost five hours total in the chair, and two new fillings just for kicks. Since I only have stubs remaining while awaiting the crowns being made, how does she expect me to eat anything when 3/4 of my chewing ability has been hamstrung?? I am sitting here writing this after taking three times as long to get anything down for breakfast, as it would have normally taken, and what I swallowed was chewed about half as well as it should have been. But I was really hungry having not eaten anything in the last 24 hours. And sleep? Well suffice it to say, it was a long long night as my tongue ran over my new architecture and frightfully swollen gums repeatedly for hours on end. And as I read over this description I realize that I haven’t even begun to adequately communicate how big a deal this is, at least for the next 5-6 days. It hurts, its costly, and its hampering social interaction in a significant manner.

Its far worse than I have described here, yet it has its own blessings. I was not throwing up and having diarrhea as was one of my close loved one’s yesterday. It saved us about $10,000 since I had all this done outside the USA. I still have all my teeth except one, at the grand age of 60. And best of all, I have the possibilities of having this done to me, even though that sounds so wrong, in the past they would have simply pulled those teeth, and I would be eating with my front teeth for the rest of my life, like I am doing this morning - and this is deeply frustrating believe you me! You need to stop right now and look for all the silver linings you can discover in the clouds over you.