In the garden, and RAIN!!!!

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SIGNYM

Saturday, September 10, 2022 12:23 AM

One more day and this blasted heat wave will be over!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake

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BRENDA

Saturday, September 10, 2022 3:29 AM

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6IXSTRINGJACK:
Sorry to hear that, Brenda. I imagine even though I got 13 out at one time and it was super quick and easy and nearly painless, a lot of that had to do with much of the jawbone missing. Yours were probably packed in there a lot tighter than mine were.

Are those your first removed teeth? I'm just wondering because if they are know that you'll get used to not having them in there fairly quickly and down the line you won't even really give it any thought anymore.



BRENDA: That was one thing the dentist told me after the x-rays were done was that my jawbones are very healthy.

No, this is a second set that had to be pulled. I know the gums will heal in time. Just have to be careful for a bit. I've got a list of instructions and the antibiotics. So, I'm fairly certain I'll be okay.

SIGNY Well, I hope these are the last teeth t be extracted. It seems kind of strange that your jawbones are healthy but your teeth broke. So, any idea what might have caused the damage? I would hope that whatever happened you could avoid in the future.

BRENDA: Well, I think most of the damage happened when I was looking after my mum when she was dying. I let a lot of stuff for me slide when I was doing that. I wasn't eating properly or sleeping. I was so stressed out that I didn't realize I was experiencing seizures again which is why a few months after she died and the neurologist ran an EEG, they found them again after I had been clear for around 5 years.

Think I was also grinding my teeth when I was getting any sleep. So between that and not looking after them, it happened.

And nope not finished just finished for now. Still two more to come out in the front and couple of broke ones on the left. Then I see about a partial plate for the top.

SIGNY: Oh, I know the feeling. There were a few years there when our daughter was disappearing mentally, my MIL (who lived with us) was dying (she died at home w/ me at her bedside) and hubby was DXd at a young age with prostrate cancer. I was at my wit's end and not taking care of myself at all.

Anyway AFA teeth grinding, if you think you might still be, there are inserts you can use to cushion your teeth. Do you have enough calcium and vitamin D in your diet? I haven't drunk milk since I was maybe 6, but I just started drinking milk again bc of osteoporosis. I know you avoid milk but you should try to get calcium in your diet somehow. Humans can tolerate all kinds of malnutrition when young bc all of our conservation mechanisms are working full time, but once we get past reproduction years nature doesn't care what happens to us any more so we better take care of ourselves!


BRENDA: Yeah, I was my mum's main care giver. By the time she died, I was wrung out. I almost yelled at one of the nurses one day and he just looked at me and said, "This isn't like you." I told him I was tired and wore out and that's when they decided to get her into hospice as fast as possible but she didn't live that long.

I think at times I might be and have been looking at cushions you can use at night in your mouth. Night guards they are called, I think. I don't drink milk anymore because of that additive that is in it. I take a vitamin D supplement every day. I also eat a lot of broccoli and brussel sprouts for calcium.

I am always on the look out for other foods with calcium in them. I eat more cheese now than I use to for the calcium.

SIGNY: How long was your mom ill? My MIL died of breast cancer. She was treated and did ok for 4 1/2 years (except she developed heart failure) but by then it had metastisized to her bones and brain, so she was in hospice - at home- for about six months b4 she passed away. Not a good way to go.

One of my sisters was my mom's primary care for 7 years. Mom was mostly pretty functional except her knee would give out and she fell quite frequently so eventually she was wheelchair-bound, but

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