Well, I've survived the night folks! Tooth, or rather the resulting hole in my jaw, is certainly no more painful than yesterday and possibly a little better. The bits around where she cut into the gum and also cut out a bit of the bone are, unsurprisingly, very sore even if you just explore them gently with your tongue, however if you leave it alone the residual pain is pretty dull - a bit like a bad bruise. In fact it's not unlike what I remember when, as a schoolboy, I had a big fight with a bigger boy who was bullying me. He landed me a right corker to the jaw and, for several days after, my jaw felt much as it does right now! I did manage to give him a few punches to remember me by and he never bothered me again but he was so much bigger than me that the outcome of the fight was pretty easy to predict. Strangely? with this extraction, what's troubling me most is pain around the jaw hinge points. Which is what reminds me so much about how I felt after being in that fight all those years ago. Mind you, the tooth extraction was a pretty brutal process, for some of the time I was having to support my chin with my hands.
Eating a nice big bowl of porridge as I'm writing this and really enjoying it as all I had yesterday, apart from cups of tea and coffee, was a bowl of soup and a small piece of soft bread.
Thank you everybody for the expressions of support.
Eating a nice big bowl of porridge as I'm writing this and really enjoying it as all I had yesterday, apart from cups of tea and coffee, was a bowl of soup and a small piece of soft bread.
Thank you everybody for the expressions of support.