Adventures in wearing dentures
Apr. 8th, 2020 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alee_grrlMonday morning was my usual routine. Got up, set up work laptop so I could be ready to start at 8:30. Put the coffee on, got my bagel ready for breakfast. Settle down with coffee and breakfast. Take a bite of bagel, and hear "snap."
One of those sounds you never want to hear when it comes to dentures and teeth. After I unfroze from horrified surprise, I was able to determine that my lower plate had pretty much snapped clean in two.
I immediately called my dental office, and I have an appointment tomorrow morning to get them repaired. They should be fixable as it is a clean break. But dang that was money I would have liked not to spend.
I am incredibly thankful though that it was my bottom plates as those are easier to do without, and that with dentures at least when shit like this happens it almost never causes physical pain. So that's a blessing. I was also incredibly thankful that they could get me in this week.
So tomorrow morning I will oust myself from the house, with face covering and gloves handy. Go to the dentist, and then stop at the store and top up my supplies as the store is right next to the dentists office. So it makes sense to do it all in what is essentially one trip. Then hopefully I can hole back up at my house for several weeks without having to leave except to take the garbage out and grab the mail.
Other than this dental misadventure, things have been mostly okay. I've pretty much over whatever cold/flu bug I had, and the sinus infection that followed it. I have restarted the tetracyline for lyme treatment and that has me a bit tired right now, but it's getting better. Work is mostly okay and fairly quiet. I am slowly working on a story for a fic exchange. I will have at least the first chapter (short chapter, but a chapter) done by Sunday when the fics are due. I hope to have the second chapter finished as well, but we will see.
Anyway, I hope everyone else is hanging in there and doing as well as can be in these strange and trying times. Much love to you all.
One of those sounds you never want to hear when it comes to dentures and teeth. After I unfroze from horrified surprise, I was able to determine that my lower plate had pretty much snapped clean in two.
I immediately called my dental office, and I have an appointment tomorrow morning to get them repaired. They should be fixable as it is a clean break. But dang that was money I would have liked not to spend.
I am incredibly thankful though that it was my bottom plates as those are easier to do without, and that with dentures at least when shit like this happens it almost never causes physical pain. So that's a blessing. I was also incredibly thankful that they could get me in this week.
So tomorrow morning I will oust myself from the house, with face covering and gloves handy. Go to the dentist, and then stop at the store and top up my supplies as the store is right next to the dentists office. So it makes sense to do it all in what is essentially one trip. Then hopefully I can hole back up at my house for several weeks without having to leave except to take the garbage out and grab the mail.
Other than this dental misadventure, things have been mostly okay. I've pretty much over whatever cold/flu bug I had, and the sinus infection that followed it. I have restarted the tetracyline for lyme treatment and that has me a bit tired right now, but it's getting better. Work is mostly okay and fairly quiet. I am slowly working on a story for a fic exchange. I will have at least the first chapter (short chapter, but a chapter) done by Sunday when the fics are due. I hope to have the second chapter finished as well, but we will see.
Anyway, I hope everyone else is hanging in there and doing as well as can be in these strange and trying times. Much love to you all.
