So I've had a cracked tooth for a couple of months, and my since it was only mildly annoying for a long time, my dentist said I could wait as long as I wanted as long as the pain wasn't that bad, but at some point I'd need a crown.

So last week when it was getting more and more painful, I went in to get a temporary crown. At this point the nerve was already pretty angry, and it got worse over the weekend as I waited for Monday to roll around to get the permanent one. They had to numb me up for the permanent one, which is unusual as that's pretty straightforward, but the nerve under my tooth was so inflamed that it hurt to have anything touch it.

In addition, the permanent crown? They had to really work with it to get it just right and I was in the chair for over an hour while they kept taking it in and out and popping it into place and re-fitting it, etc. Which was fine since I was numb, but there was a holy lot of wiggling and pressure on an already-inflamed-nerve, and since Monday morning when the novacaine wore off, holy mama my tooth has been on fire.

Long story short is for the last few days my nerve has had to go through a kind of recovery. Today is the first day it merely hurts a whole lot. Yesterday I kind of wanted to, well, ask someone to just give me a sedative for 24 hours so I wouldn't have to feel the intense and extraordinary pain in my mouth.

Anyhoo. This morning I went to eat breakfast about 45 minutes after waking up, and I could sip most of my shake slowly on one side, but eating my brown rice/milk in my bowl? Nearly impossible - I only got about 5 small spoonfuls before I just couldn't do it. I just finished lunch, which went better. I had about 2/3 of a 3-egg/cheese omelette, and a few potatoes and one oat cracker.

So I am down very much on browns today and my skin feels a little skin crawly. My little body's going, hey, where's our stuff?

So I'm going for a walk tonight if I feel well enough, if not, tomorrow night. I have a fruit smoothie from my favorite all-natural smoothie place planned for two days from now and some extra fats and browns the next few days. My tooth is much better today (which tells you how bad it was yesterday) and so I expect I'll be able to eat relatively normally tomorrow.

But I hate breaking my food ritual, it really bothers me.

But life happens and as I'm typing this I am so glad for just the experience of doing this for ten years, because while I'm a little bummed, I know what to do and how to take care of myself the next few days.

Hope this finds everybody happy and with healthy teeth. I just wanted to check in here real quick and put the stuff in my head down someplace where it's understood.

Sky