Not for the Squeamish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have for some time had a real problem tooth, years rather than months.  I've had it filled a couple of times, but because of my really really big fear/hatred/loathing of going to and the whole process of being in the Dentists I have not had the root canal filling which it really needed and gone for the lesser filling, which gave me another 4 or 5 years with the tooth.  But the day was coming when I new I was going to have to go and let my Dentist see it and I was hoping to put that off until our next regular check up.  That was not to be, as the filling fell out and whilst that didn't cause me any pain it did cause me a big problem in another way, but more of that in a moment.

As I mentioned above I have always hated going to the Dentist, this is because dental treatment in the UK in the late 1960's and early 1970's was less than sophisticated, in fact I'd go so far to say it was almost barbaric.  When I was very young only about 5 or 6 I had to have 4 large back teeth out, why I don't know but I did.  I can even now 40 years later clearly remember being sat in the waiting room.  There were a lot of children waiting for dental extractions and as each one was seen they were brought through the waiting room  still in pain and many with blood visibly coming from their mouths.  Then it was my turn, luckily I don't remember that, probably blocked it out, but remember staying at my Grandma's afterwards.  And from then onwards I've hated the dentist.

So I have always where possible avoided the dentist, gone for my regular check-ups when I had to, but largely given the whole thing as wide a berth as possible.  But for this one tooth, I am not doing too badly either a few fillings here and there and a couple of teeth I've lost, but nothing that you can see, back ones.  Anyway my filling fell out and I wasn't rushing to the dentist, but there was a nasty rough edge (here it gets yucky) and it was rubbing on my tongue which quickly became swollen and very very uncomfortable!!  I was lucky as Mike had a dentist appointment so I was able to pinch his appointment to get my tooth done and my Dentist knowing 'what I'm like' decided that the tooth had to come out there and then which he did.  So at least it was all  going to be over before Christmas.

Sadly getting the tooth out was not so easy and I had several injections to start with and then went back into the waiting room, then back into the chair, but I could still feel lots of pain and a few more injections later, still pain, and then one finally right into the middle of the tooth, that got it.  The tooth was out pretty quickly after that and then it was home for some TLC which was duvet and tv on the sofa for a few hours!!

For the not so squeamish - below is a picture or two of the offending tooth and not so nice it was at all and I'm rather glad its not longer there causing me problems and I haven't missed it.

Ciao

Sue
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Reading challenge 15/16 - currently reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

Thursday 24th September

Perhaps not surprisingly I was quite tired today! The PTLLS days were not quite so long, and a whole heap less stressful and no parking issues either.

Tried to get on with a few jobs and chores, but didn't fare too well, did a little bit of FA as I had some flowers to use up from college and some of my Thame show arrangements were finished so I started swapping them over. Below is foliage from the Thame show refreshed with some roses, a peachy colour with a pretty edge around the petals.

Some left over white spray carnations from college which I added into my feather confection to replace the calla lillies I had in there.

I also did this little arrangement for Brian over the road, it's still early days after Shala and we are still missing her, so goodness knows what its like for him. I think another doggie may be on the cards but not quite yet.

I was also at the dentist this morning - and I really hate going to the Dentist. Although this morning was no where near as bad as a couple of weeks ago and I was done and dusted in just over 20 minutes. I popped into the charity shop near the dentist and picked up a really nice dish, which will do for some flower arrangements, possibly even Ikebana due to its shape. It was a bargain at £2.00 it came from M&S so would have cost a lot more than that.

Finally the Lego is finished, hooray! It has taken some doing and a fair bit of angst from all in the house, Jamie just couldn't get his head around this one, but finally it is done! It is from Star Wars, Clone Wars and is pretty big, he will fit it into his bedroom eventually, once it has done the obligatory 2 weeks in the sitting room and everyone who pops by has given the requisite oohs and ahhs!!

Jamie also needed to submit his entry into the sunflower competition, here he is, with his now dead sunflower (but we are keeping the seeds for next year) it measures 1m 68 cms, so we will see how he gets on.

Ciao

Sue

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Reading challenge 8/16 - currently reading Lovers and Players by Jackie Collins
Jamie's Reading challenge 5/12 - currently reading Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull by James Luceno
SLYMI - 1/52