Today’s the first full day of my new life. Finally have the teeth nature intended me to have. To the rest of the world my teeth were fine. To me they were small, yellow, and in constant need of care.
I had stress induced dry mouth from the time I was a young child.. I finally figured out that it was the cause of my problems because nothing else made sense. Medications actually helped alleviate it because I wasn’t tense all the time anymore.
Never knew until yesterday that Listerine is horrible for people with dry mouth, and I’m a Listerine junkie. Love the taste, swishing it around my mouth and keeping it there. It always felt as if I were killing all the germs. Didn’t realize that I was killing the teeth.
I can’t believe that I’m talking about my teeth in my blog and that people have been so wonderful. That’s one of the great things about blogging. I can talk about the really horrible without fear of being judged. The morally wrong don’t count.
I have always used writing as a way of understanding what the problem is, and being able to think of solutions. Now I can think out loud in my blog and get great support.
The pain is beginning to abate and the swelling’s going down. Can’t believe that my face didn’t swell through prior more intrusive oral surgeries. For some reason this two year tooth saga began to wear me down around the same time I received publicity.
I was burnt. Did write about that. Didn’t write about how scared I was until the last couple of weeks, I think. Almost looked up “fatal symptomless conditions that could happen while on a dentist’s chair or in the ten days afterwards.” Remembered that I’m a former SSI Claims Rep ,and am a Licensed Social Worker who specialized in geriatrics. Know them all from my careers, and my reading.
Did read everything I could on dentistry and implants. I’m very blessed because I could afford to go to the best. My very expensive health insurance doesn’t cover even a part of it. But I knew from the day I decided to do this that this was an amazing investment in myself that will pay itself back ten times.
Know more than a few people who are having extensive implants. They began before me, and will be going for a much longer time. Some even have insurance that my dentists accept. I guess people don’t want to pay a larger co-pay. I will say that my friend’s sister Denise has excellent insurance and spends as much money on jewelry and clothes as if she were the average pop star.
Dental work isn’t the place to economize on. I’m in so much pain because one of the teeth that was worked on the other day was one of the “too much work” teeth. I first had my teeth bonded in 1983 when I was 32, and…here I am the world’s first self-professed dental bulimic.
You helped me get though this. And offered empathy rather than the scorn I thought this would be received with. Though I didn’t want to I used to judge a person by his or her teeth until I couldn’t anymore.
That’s an incredible high. Thank you all so much. This is about as dramatic as my present day life gets. My youthful dramas are much more interesting.
I am so disappointed in New York’s senators for not voting for the Kerry/Feingold bill.
I wanted Hillary to be the first woman president six years ago. Unfortunately she’s been campaigning for president since she first became Senator. I can’t believe that she lacked the chutzpah to vote for that bill. Unless she’s planning a strategy move to end the war tomorrow and somehow…
Chuck’s parents live in the same eighteen hole golf course apartment complex that my Mom lived in. Would love to have been able to see my Mom going at Chuckala’s parents. According to my Mom they were stingy in the reception they made after Chuckualla was elected. Heavy on the egg salad, light on the smoked fishes.
My parents would have sprung for the all smoked fish reception, with caviar, if one of their kids were elected Senator from New York. That’s as far up the political ladder as any parent would want their kid to go now. And my parents had daughters who changed careers a lot so it really would have been a miracle.
Chuck, your parents would have gone to great lengths if they had to, to make sure that you didn’t serve in Viet Nam. No Jewish boy I knew went to Viet Nam, no matter how poor their family was.
Our grandparents had survived the pogroms and/or the Nazi’s as did many parents of baby boomers. They weren’t going to let their children and/or grandchildren die in a meaningless war. You should be a leader in this. Unless you have a plan to…
I support the Troops that are in Iraq, with all my heart. But on Tuesday I will be downtown at a rally in support of Lieutenant Eheren Watada who might face court martial because he believes that the war and occupation in Iraq is illegal. He’s the first commissioned officer to refuse to be deployed.
May the war end tomorrow, but in the meantime may more troops take courage from Lieutenant Watada and do the same.
I took back my teeth, and that sounds strange. We can take back the country. As usual, I don’t debate, I do delete, and if you want a debate go to BIO.
On Monday I will be back with a post about an experience that I just had with another political blog. I’m dying to write about it now, but….
Welcome (almost) back, and I’m glad you’re feeling better.
Re: teeth as a metaphor for politics, I’m assuming you’re not referring to your wisdom teeth…?
Glad you have your teeth situated now!
I don’t agree with this war either, Pia… BUT… Watada signed that dotted line to protect and serve no matter what the cost. Once our soldiers start refusing their jobs… then I think we will be in an even bigger pile of crap. Who will protect us then? Our administration? I can see ole’ Dick, Rice and Georgie in CAMO now… FIRE AT WILL!
I am glad you teeth are done and hope you have a splendid weekend.
Hilary has thus far disappointed me.
I am done with political blogs for the most part and done reading all but a few.
If the solider was protecting and serving a government that didn’t lie to him and mislead their own Secretary
of State that would be a different story, I think the horrors of this one bring us into a situation. Unfortunately one can’t always stop thinking logically just because one becomes a soldier.
I love it when you say “I don’t debate, but I do I delete.”
So therefore I am not going to say much about Lt Watada…signing the dotted line means you are no longer a civilian…if he didn’t want to go to Iraq, he should have chosen a different path, because now he most likely will be hanging out in Leavenworth. Which is a shame.
I am going to send the link to my friends in Iraq…and see what their take on it is.
I thought I was alone! I love the clean feeling in my mouth after the Listerine. So many people complain about the taste/whatever…
Give me more!
Listerine breath strips are a godsend.
“teeth as a mataphot for life”
Yippy for the mouth, love the post title.
I hope your mouth will feel better soon. I can’t believe you actually like Listerine. That burning sensation always made me want to quickly rush through that part of mouth care.
Hi Pia! I am heartbroken that life takes me away from so many of your delightful posts! I am glad to hear the tooth thing is FINALLY resolved!
My crown, from back in December when all this crap started because of the infamous dried bread bits my in-laws gave me, now has a nast infection that may lead to quite a few complications but I won’t know as the soonest appointment available, the emergency appointment I was given, is for Tuesday!
So yeah, my minor stuff and wirlwind troubles have had me at the dentist’s for two years.. I cannot imagine what such heavy duty work has entailed for you! How about a relaxing trip to neurotic Spain as a treat? Come on over!
As for Watada… I think he has a right to protest in spite of having signed on the dotted line… those afraid that it’ll start a trend… I don’t see that and it takes guts to go against a whole establishemnt and an entity that is a force of its own… good for him for speaking up and taking such a huge risk to stay true to himself…
Like always, brilliant Pia! Much love and huge besos!
Me…
Welcome back and glad to hear you are feeling nearly 100%.
Hugs!
I took back my teeth, and that sounds strange. We can take back the country.
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What a quote.
Well, you will also need a teeth comb to rid America of political lice(lies) of vice.
I wish you well.
God bless.
hi pia,
papers over here are convinced hilary is to pro-war to even make it as a demoratic candidate. have i been reading the economist too much…? perhaps..
anyway, glad you had your teeth sorted, i’d LOVE to fix my own. they look awful…
I’m with Cowgirl, but to a different direction:
Pia, check this out:
Lt. Watada, age 28, was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii where he enlisted in the Army and was obligated to serve on active duty as an Army officer for a term of three years concluding on December 3, 2006. Lt. Watada was stationed at Ft. Lewis in January 2006, when he first asked to resign his commission because as he stated, “I am whole-heartedly opposed to the continued war in Iraq, the deception used to wage this war, and the lawlessness that has pervaded every aspect of our civilian leadership.”
ok, that means he joined the army in 2003. The war was goin on then. So he joined the Amy during a war he thinks is illegal and unjustified? Now he’s sat in the Army for 3 years with no attempt to resign his commission until they call his number?
I smell something a little less principled and a little more self-preservation on this guy.
Might want to check whom you are supporting before you jump in whole-heartedly.
Oh, you must be so happy. Congratulations.
Sorry been so scarce, it just seems like budget season ran into boating season & then all the sudden it was year-end close, too. Dvery second I’m not at my desk, I want to be on the water! Been stopping by but mostly nothing brilliant to add to comments…
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