the tooth is gone

The Experiment: Day 69 ~ Ding Dong The Tooth Is Gone…

This will be a short post. At 8:00 this morning I went back to the dentist and had my bad molar pulled. I have been struggling with it for 2 1/2 months. I first wrote about it here, the issues of being in your sixties, having no insurance, and having a tooth that was so bad that they wanted to do a lot of expensive dental work and I just didn’t have the money. What I came to was essentially — and she had told me that they would do a root canal and a crown but sometimes that didn’t work and they had to pull the tooth anyway, this after telling me she didn’t want to pull the tooth because I had already had the very back molar pulled 3 years ago and taking this one too would destabilize my teeth — was to go to the site I’d found online to try natural remedies to try to save the tooth myself, and at first, and for awhile, the oregano oil was amazing and all the pain was gone. But the last week or so things have not been good, and getting worse, and I didn’t have any choice. This morning the tooth came out.

And the thing is it’s one of these decisions we must make when we get older. I didn’t have the money for all of the expensive dental work and if I had been able to get it it would have perhaps been only the beginning. I’m 63, more things can happen with teeth the older you get and I surely cannot keep paying for more dental work. It had to come out, and out it came.

Right now my mouth is really starting to hurt. It’s kind of going, “WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED BACK THERE???” It is not amused. I have taken ibuprofen — I’m not big on the pain pills — and I think I will go watch Netflix with the pugs. That’s really all I’m up to right now. And I do want to thank the great many friends on Facebook who, when I wrote in saying I was afraid and asked for prayers, wrote to me and sent prayers and love and encouragement and support. It’s wonderful not to feel alone.

The deed is done, and so, for now, am I.