Just had (Friday) one of the more painful experiences of my life…
With a face blown up like a small melon on one side (me, not the dentist), the Dentist decided to lance an abcess (about the size of a large pea he said…) on my second top incisor and then guddle around in the hole a bit!
However, thanks to Penicillin and iodine, my face is now almost back to normal and I even sort of managed to play in a session on Sunday night. The tooth is a goner, but I have high hopes that fluting will be back to normal soon.
On the positive side, you had dental care. Lots of folks don’t. Every time I have some misfortune in my life, I say, “I am still living better than 99% of the people who have ever lived on this planet.” I don’t know if that percentage is true but it can’t be that far off.
If it makes you feel any better Chris..
During the last month I’ve been diagnosed with High blood pressure,Cholesterol at 7.2,Tinnitis,a bung knee,had to get one of my front teeth pulled out, put my back out on Monday and have spent the last 4 days in bed with the pain which has caused severe vertigo and I feel a flu coming on…apart from that,I’m quite well …
Things are on the up though…I’ve given up the grog,'erb and Chocolate and am starting to feel a bit better..
And I think, doing a quick sum; without dental care I’d probably be completely toothless by now. Although a couple of my lower incisors have never felt the drill and might have survived.
I am grateful that I have it so good, but it still hurts.
Sorry to hear this Chris, and I can relate to dental problems. Most of mine are yet to come, from a lack of affordable dental care and bad teeth, but I’ve been there too. No abcess’ yet, though I can’t imagine why not. Hope you heal quickly, and are playing again soon!
Weedie, dear fellow, you’re just having a real bad month, for sure! Hope you’re back on the road to recovery very quickly as well, and don’t give up on the things you’ve given up, it’s possible to recover well enough to reconsider!!!
Well, dental pain isn’t anything good, but if you want real pain, try a tortioned testicle (congenital condition)! Not something you really want to do, unless you’re into pain, big time! A fading but vivid memory I still have and will until I part this earth! I told them to do whatever they needed to do, but please just stop the pain~!!!
Let’s put these things behing us, and just play some music!
Well said Barry..thanks mate.
Pain is a terrible thing that we have to bear…and for sure, there’s lots of people going through life dealing with much more than you,or I,or Chris have had to deal with…and thats not even including mental pain…sometimes I just wish I was my Labrador .
Much sympathie for you all with medical ‘thingies’.
Hopefully flute playing will not suffer.
I totally agree with Mutepoint. Compared to al lot of people in the world (most people) we’re not that bad off, even if we suffer from medical issues that make our lives a misery for a while.
Hang in there.
I can sympathize, have been there with pain that required stronger prescription painkillers, then stronger, and finally the really nasty addictive kind that allowed me to curl up on the sofa and moan for most of the day without being too much of a nuisance. Root canal was an absolute blessing, but the tooth went a few years later anyway.
It sounds like you’re well on the way to recovery. Do take care of those eye teeth…you need them for fluting. But wonderful that you can get almost anything replaced these days…for a price.
Had my front tooth cracked when I was young. By the time the root canal was done, there wasn’t much above the gums to attach a fake tooth. Eventually the remainder cracked and I ended up getting a bit of metal screwed into my bone. It was a real pain at the time, but has been something I rarely think about these days. Hope all goes well.
I have another front tooth sitting in top of a piece of metal already and that had serious problems with an infection - it is stillhanging on there, but not really a satisfactory outcome. It is probably what will have to happen with the current problem tooth too.
Anyway, thanks for the sympathy everyone. I’m feelin much better now and have made my peace with the long term consequences of having to replace the tooth.
As an aside, does anyone know whether it is actually possible to play flute toothless or not?
Just recovering from Gleason stage 4 Prostate Cancer. Was operated upon 8 days ago. BTW that will put a dent in your practicing and playing as well as a lot of other stuff. I’m very grateful for all of the medical persons who attended me, they were great and I have much love for them. The disease gave me a whole new perspective on what’s important and what isn’t. The final pathology report has been given and the results are the best possible. It appears that all of the cancer was contained in the organ and all margins are clear, which means that they most likely got it all; I certainly hope that is the case. Well, I don’t wish to turn this into an “organ recital”; however, I do have a very important piece of advice for all men on this board, and that is to get a yearly examination and a PSA report especially if you are 50 years of age or older. If there is Prostate Cancer in your family, you should begin examination at age 40, at least that’s what I was told by the medical experts that have been treating me.
I was very fortunate in another respect, I have good insurance coverage, but I’m aware of many others in this Country who don’t and I worry what happens to them in such instances. I just can’t begin to imagine the stress and sadness of those who unlike me don’t have coverage and have the same kind of disease or even worse–my heart truly goes out to them as do my daily prayers.
I think you need some bottom teeth in the front. Mike Rafferty’s dad had to stop playing flute when he
lost those. A friend gave him some bagpipes. But I bet false teeth would do the job.
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and am starting to feel a bit better..
