Thursday, September 27, 2012
Teeth and Thai fun
It's just beginning to hurt!
My mouth.
It is three and a half hours since I sat in the dentist's chair, with that feeling of life not being quite real.
Maybe that was my nerves or maybe it was the pint of Guinness.
Knowing that I wouldn't be eating much this evening (maybe a cuppa soup), I decided that a good lunch was what I needed.
A good, cheap lunch.
So, off to The Jubilee Oak, the Crawley Wetherspoons.
It is Thursday - curry club day.
I love the sweet potato, chick pea and spinach curry - not too powerful. It comes with rice, naan bread, poppadoms and mango chutney......and a drink of my choice. Today the drink of my choice was Guinness.
It was very good.
Gave me a real lift - I was up for anything!
We popped home to collect Teddy. My Teddy has accompanied me to a number of difficult medical appointments in the last 20 years; it's a wonder he hasn't been squeezed to death.
He sat on my lap and I held his arms - gripping tighter and tighter as the needles went in.
The first two teeth came out with ease - didn't notice their going.
The third one, right at the back had a hooked root and was more awkward.
I saw the three of them - terrible looking specimens. I am better off without them.
And I felt fine.
Still amuses me that the Thai for teeth is "fun".
Now I wait a month to return for impressions of the top of my mouth so that a new, full denture, can be made. Then I can have the 5 remaining top teeth out - ooh, there will be lots and lots of needles.
The partial denture will not be done for 6 months - giving plenty of time for those bottom gums to heal.
I have rested for the afternoon.....and of course, the pain has set in.
Time for some pain killers.
Tomorrow is another day.
Talking of Thailand......here are the Thai Monks.
My mouth.
It is three and a half hours since I sat in the dentist's chair, with that feeling of life not being quite real.
Maybe that was my nerves or maybe it was the pint of Guinness.
Knowing that I wouldn't be eating much this evening (maybe a cuppa soup), I decided that a good lunch was what I needed.
A good, cheap lunch.
So, off to The Jubilee Oak, the Crawley Wetherspoons.
It is Thursday - curry club day.
I love the sweet potato, chick pea and spinach curry - not too powerful. It comes with rice, naan bread, poppadoms and mango chutney......and a drink of my choice. Today the drink of my choice was Guinness.
It was very good.
Gave me a real lift - I was up for anything!
We popped home to collect Teddy. My Teddy has accompanied me to a number of difficult medical appointments in the last 20 years; it's a wonder he hasn't been squeezed to death.
He sat on my lap and I held his arms - gripping tighter and tighter as the needles went in.
The first two teeth came out with ease - didn't notice their going.
The third one, right at the back had a hooked root and was more awkward.
I saw the three of them - terrible looking specimens. I am better off without them.
And I felt fine.
Still amuses me that the Thai for teeth is "fun".
Now I wait a month to return for impressions of the top of my mouth so that a new, full denture, can be made. Then I can have the 5 remaining top teeth out - ooh, there will be lots and lots of needles.
The partial denture will not be done for 6 months - giving plenty of time for those bottom gums to heal.
I have rested for the afternoon.....and of course, the pain has set in.
Time for some pain killers.
Tomorrow is another day.
Talking of Thailand......here are the Thai Monks.
