Comments on: Update on my dental surgery

By: CV

CV — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:49:21 +0000

Ouch, what a day Neo! Pain from your head to your toes. Hope you are on the mend and feeling better soon.

I recommend Kozy Shack rice pudding, slightly warmed up in the microwave. To me it’s the perfect comfort food.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 17:20:18 +0000

ben david:

🙂 . The urge to write is chronic, I’m afraid.

By: ben david

ben david — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:55:31 +0000

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
From everything.
Except the urge to write.
No cure for that…

By: Philu

Philu — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 13:31:29 +0000

As with your dancing, being a long-time bike rider helped me heal from double knee replacements; that along with doing extra therapy so I could show off to the therapists. The right attitude means everything and you demonstrate you have that.

By: blert

blert — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 12:51:16 +0000

The ballet paid off.

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 06:38:32 +0000

My sympathies on your ankle. On Monday night, I went to Menard’s, a big box lumberyard. It was snowing, and when I was walking out to my truck, I slipped on wet ice, and landed on my new disk sander! YAY, styrofoam packaging! I am pleased you are getting better, and hope your recovery is swift.

By: John Guilfoyle

John Guilfoyle — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 06:33:52 +0000

Wow! Banged up ankle, root canal and still cranking out the blog. H/T to you boss…you must be one tough cookie. ðŸ˜Š

By: Exeter mom

Exeter mom — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 05:05:01 +0000

Good Lord, you have had quite a day! I wonder if the odd way in which you slipped and fell had something to do with your having been a dancer? But what do I know? Use those marvelous make up tricks you sometimes post to camouflage any black and blue (did you take arnica?) and rest. Yogurt is good, as are poached eggs. You can graduate to pasta a la carbonara, sans bacon.

So relieved to hear you came through this ordeal in good spirits.

By: The Other Chuck

The Other Chuck — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 04:46:26 +0000

Neo:

“The tooth had broken when he tried to pull it, leaving a little nub and the root.”

I had the same happen when my wisdom teeth were removed at age 18. The bottom ones were impacted and had to be chiseled out. Several years later during a routine dental visit my dentist went into alarm mode not unlike yours. An x-ray showed a radiating opaque streak from a fragment left behind. It coursed down the jawbone in the nerve canal ending at center chin. Fearing cancer he sent me for detailed x-rays and evaluation by the surgeon. It turned out to be calcification of the jaw which I have to this day, some 50 years later.

By: charles

charles — Sat, 10 Feb 2018 03:08:35 +0000

“Soft foods today”

Don’t know if this helps; but, I was also on a soft foods diet for two weeks after some dental surgery.

I found mashed potatoes helped, so did some stovetop stuffing (but that needed some chewing so it wasn’t until the second week); but, what I found really helpful were cold cans of Boost or Slimfast as they seemed to be “balanced” with some vitamins and minerals. I consider them to be mostly junk; but, they seemed to help satisfy anyway. oh, they have to be cold or else they do have a VERY chalky taste.

Good Luck!