I’m sure you’re tired of hearing about grafted gums, but this should be the second-to-last entry on the matter. The results are better than I could have imagined. The doc took off the last of the spackle last Thursday. I was expecting the new gum to be bride-of-Frankenstein kind of gross, but it hardly looked [...]

The Canadian geese are still hanging out at the front door to our office building. The mother goose laid her eggs around March 17. With a ~25 day gestation period, we should hopefully see some baby goose action sometime towards the end of this week. I haven’t decided whether choosing to set up camp right [...]

The “bandage” on the inside of my mouth, where they cut gum from, came loose earlier this evening while I was drinking fruit punch. I now put “bandage” in “quotes”, since the thing I’ve been calling a bandage is rock hard. Like some mortar they troweled into my mouth while it was still numb. No [...]

Pain is under control, though I’m constantly reminded that my gums were sliced up five days ago. I’m still taking the amoxycillin like clockwork, but have cut down on the ibuprofen since the swelling has mostly subsided. There is no bleeding. Besides doing the best I can to brush and floss, I’m rinsing with saltwater [...]

Cup Noodle Originally uploaded by JanneM Salty as all hell, but all the more delicious for it, the Cup Noodles’ noodly goodness warms my heart and my stomach as I recover from Monday’s grafting. I try not to think about all the saturated fat (7g/35% DV), either. These noodle cups will help fatten up my [...]

It’s been two days since the graft. Oddly, my stomach hurts a lot more than any part of my mouth. I think one of the medications (Ibuprofin, most likely) is messing with my stomach. There’s tightness and occasional sharp pain, plus it seems that I was supposed to drink lots of water and not lay [...]