I went to the dentist yesterday and as I suspected it was
over an hour wait to sit in the chair for two minutes. The Dr. looked inside my
mouth and said “ Uh huh. Yeah. Looks good. You can go now.” This was the Dr.
that had done the oversewing of my gums. You would think that they would
remember someone that they had tortured, but no. I kept my cool and asked him
how long it would be before I could get my dentures and he said about six
weeks. Oh goody, just about the time I’m through with chemo and radiation the
dentists get to torture me again. Although I’ve been through that particular
bit of torture before. “Here sir, put this shovel full of cold goop in your
mouth until it sets up.” The trick to
that is to lean forward so it doesn’t run down the back of your throat.
On to chemo. After they took vitals, and after a two hour wait we
finally got in to see the Dr. He said the chemical that I would be getting is
Cisplatin. This seems to be one of the original chemo drugs. You know, the one
where you lose all of your hair and puke till your toenails are in your throat.
Hmm, I was seasick once, is it anything like that? Don’t know, everybody is
different. But we have a pile of other drugs we’re gonna give you to help you
feel normal. Uhh, yeah. No teeth and no hair and puking for days at a time.
Yeah, that’s pretty normal for me. NOT
!!! For anyone that's interested google Cisplatin. It's full of nasty news.
Well, just gonna hafta see how that all plays out. I still
believe that God has other things for me to do and I’m going to have to stick
around to see what that is. This is not something that He put in my way, but
something that has just happened. We are given free will and evidently so are
diseases. You can do things to hasten the end of your life and you can do
things to extend your life. But Jim Fixx was doing all of the things he thought
was right and his heart exploded. And I’m sure we all know of people who do
everything wrong and still keep getting everything. The world isn’t fair and
you’re just going to have to get used to it.
On to other things.
Getting used to not having any teeth is a bit
more of a problem than I had originally thought. The problem aside from having
to relearn how and what to eat is that the teeth locate the jaw. That is they
give you a point of reference of where to stop closing your mouth. With no
teeth you don’t have that point of reference anymore. Your lower jaw will now
go further towards shut than it used to and trying to find that point where it
used to be is a little disconcerting because you get the feeling your mouth is
open like Bubba in Forest Gump. You feel like when you’re talking all that’s
coming out is blah blah blah. And I mean literally that. Kind of like a baby
discovering new sounds going ba bab ba bub blah. It gives new meaning to the
term motorboatin’. What I feel that I
need is some sort of dental appliance that is soft , pliable, and hygienic that helps to align and locate the jaw in the
position it should be in if you had teeth. It should have grooves of a sort in
it so the gums would have a place to sit. Mostly I need this thing to sleep in. I have woken
up after having worked my jaw, supposedly talking to someone in my sleep, with
my jaw slightly sore because my jaw is now able to close further than it did
before. So dental appliance inventors
get busy.
An FYI for my blog followers. We are heading to the north 40 today and will be incommuncado until Monday at least. There is almost no signal there. You have to leave the phone in the window to get a text. I have actually made a phone call there, but you have to stand on the second floor landing to do it.Kind of reminds me of the guy that stands on the roof with the antenna in his hand doing different yoga poses trying to get good reception on the TV. But it's quiet there (except for the coyotes, frogs, etc.) and gives you a lot of time for introspection. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. The north 40 doesn’t have a
land line, internet, or TV, so it’s just us.
Till Monday then.
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