Well…after getting up this morning to almost no pain even with having my mouth torn apart yesterday, I was really hoping it would make it easier to eat…it has been painful for the past year with the huge sensitivity to heat, cold, and pressure…it was so bad that I was never eating hot or cold food… only eating tepid stuff and even the acid from oranges sent me into screaming pain even though it was at room temperature…so today when I had hot soup for lunch and was able to eat it without tilting my head to the right to keep the food off the left side of my mouth…and I damn near broke into tears…never thought I’d ever be able to eat without pain again….my jaw is still pretty sore from the stress they put on it yesterday and I can’t open it all the way but I know that’s just temporary until the strain heals…one thing I’m sure of is that I don’t take this for granted…and I am going to relish every pain free day if they continue…you just don’t know what this has done for my quality of life….

Well…damn, this is weird…after all of the cutting and scraping and grinding on my teeth yesterday, my mouth barely hurts at all today…just some stiffness in the jaw hinge but that is about it…and the bleeding has completely stopped so I guess I’m on the way to healing…if it continues to feel like this, I won’t even need to take anything for it today…fingers crossed…I am still removing the protective cement they put in to keep the cold and heat from hurting but most of it is out and the rest of it will eventually fall out….it still does hurt a bit when I put pressure  on it biting down but I can live with that….so, it looks like I can start to get back to normal today….still feel cold today, though, so I have the heating pad in my lap just to try to get warm and I’m not sure what that is about…probably should take it easy today but I need to get two rides in anyway so I may take the afternoon off and watch some soccer…I was so worn out last night that I slept through til 6:23 this morning but I’m still pretty tired and it will take a while to get moving….I was planning on today being a recovery day so I’ll have to see if the mouth continues to improve before I decide what to do ….more later…

Well… just got back here from getting the first part of the dental surgery done and man, they jerked and beat on my mouth so much I’m sure my jaw is going to ache tomorrow…my face and jaw is still numb but I think I need to get out ahead of the pain as the numbness wears off…and I lost another molar to a huge abscess…the dentist said we could try to save it and spend thousands to to it but it would come out at some point…it was a the far rear left molar so I’ll still be able to chew…and now without pain…have lots of self dissolving stitches in that won’t need to be removed and the next appointment on the 13th now is just a checkup and consultation and the other side will be done later…and he thinks all of the infection on the left side is now gone and it should heal up okay….hope so….I’m tired and have a headache…

Well…happy second anniversary of moving in to my house and it’s going to be a long, painful day…didn’t sleep much at all last night but that’s to be expected with being good last night to prep for the dental work today….out of bed at 5:23 and it looks like it going to snow this morning and I hope it’s not too bad so I can still get to my appointment at 2….and the rest of the day after I get back here is going to be lying on the couch and taking stuff for the pain…I did take the day off the bike yesterday but am going to try to get two rides in this morning and I’m going to eat a lot this morning so I won’t have to eat later…probably not until Tuesday afternoon…I am going to make mashed potatoes this morning to go with the soup I have thawed so I’ll have some non chewing food in case I do get hungry…at least I’ll be able to sleep tonight or even take a nap this afternoon….so nothing planned for the day other than rides and the dental work…I do have to straighten up the living room in case I need to be helped into the front door but that will only take a few minutes….more later….

Well…running about on time today with getting up with the coffee alarm clock at a little after 6…didn’t go out to get the paper today since I just didn’t want to get cold and it’s pretty useless for 5 bucks…my left hip is hurting again this morning and I must have done something when I was sleeping last night…but, it’s not as bad as yesterday so I can deal with it…didn’t get anything done yesterday but I am going to clean a bit today…going to take the day off the bike today to get back to the normal pattern after riding twice a day all week…I am starting to get a little anxious about the dental work tomorrow…it’s going to hurt like crazy when I get back here and I’ll have to shift into survival mode when it’s done around 4 or so…going to over eat today since I won’t be able to eat until Wed or so…hey, maybe I’ll lose some weight…have to look on the bright side….but I will have at least two days of pain killers to help weather the storm…not much to do today…just eating and cleaning…Man U plays in the League Cup final at 11:30 so I’ll be watching that and then just taking it easy for the rest of the day…no cocktails tonight in prep for the surgery so I’m going to be pretty bored…more later…

Well…damn, I’m not sure what I did but my left hip started to hurt last night and it is really bad today…hard to put any weight on it and that is just a pain…woke up at 5 again today but laid back down until 7:30 and I think the lack of sleep has caught up with me….so, I don’t know when I’m going to get on the bike today…it’s already 8 and I’m on the first cup of coffee so it will be quite a while…had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done but I do need to clean the bathroom today with the build up of dust on the edge of the shower…I still can’t believe how dusty this house is…I guess it should be with being 82 years old but it is still a pain to constantly dust…Monday is going to be the two year anniversary of moving in here and it has been a pretty good time living here…haven’t made any progress on the house  in 6 months so I need to get off my butt and get going but that will wait until after the health problems are sorted in April…not much to do today…it did snow a little last night but I don’t think I’ll have to shovel today…I do need to clear the front steps that I forgot the other day so I can use them after getting my mouth destroyed on Monday…I had doves on the feeder yesterday and that has never happened before….huge birds but pretty dumb…two of them were pecking at the side of the feeder trying to get at the food and never figured it out…more later…

Well…sitting here at 12:45 and I have everything I wanted to do already done so what’s next? Got two rides in this morning and am still digging on watching tv on my tablet when I ride now…watched two episodes of “Leverage” today and will probably keep doing that since there are 5 seasons to watch…the teeth that they are working on Monday hurt like crazy today and I had to take some ibuprofen to cut it…and it worked well since I just noticed the pain is gone…it’s pretty annoying that the city is working on something at the corner and have had two trucks idling over there for over an hour…can’t figure out what the heck they are doing…I do still have to do the lunch dishes before the soccer match that is on at 3…it looks like the big empty lot to the north of me is having sewer lines put in it…there is a pallet of about a dozen 20 foot pipes sitting there so we may be seeing another new house or two out here….I didn’t hurt my should as much as I thought since it doesn’t hurt at all today…but it is funny that when I move it the thing grinds an pops so loud I can hear it…strange…

Well…I just noticed that I only did one of these yesterday and I promise to do better today….up at 5:04 again this morning but laid in bed til 6:43 and I’m not sure if that helped or not…my stomach is growling like crazy this morning for some reason and I have a bad case of heartburn and I can’t figure out why that would be…I know I kept the calories under a thousand yesterday but that’s pretty normal for me…I have started to prepare for the surgery Monday by getting food thawed that I will be able to eat with my mouth torn up…turkey soup is going to be the go to since I really don’t need to chew that much and I’m going to make mashed potatoes Sunday….have broth in the cupboard, too, so I’ll be able to survive it…damn, woke up thinking it was Saturday today and that has been a theme all week…off by a day and I wonder how I got out of synch? I did beat the heck out of my right shoulder peeling the ice off my walks with my garden spade but it looks like the heat I put on it last night has helped…doesn’t hurt as much as I expected but it is still stiff….not much to do today…need to get stared soon but don’t want to…just going to ride the bike…twice…and then see what happens….more later…

Well…damn, it’s one of those morning where you wake up at 5:04 and immediately know there is no point in trying to sleep more…but that means I’m going to be pretty worn out later and may have to take a nap….I did sleep okay but only about 5 hours and I already feel tired…had an okay day yesterday but got nothing done but cooking and today looks the same…I did stay around 1K calories with pasta for lunch and then a pork chop and asparagus for dinner…and I got two rides in watching tv and that will be the plan for this morning once I get more coffee in me and muster up the motivation to move off this couch….I do have to have everything done by 3 this afternoon when Man U plays…that may be the time to take a nap….I was a little concerned that I was going to lose power last night with the rain and ice that was falling but the house is still warm and I’m doing this so no problems…and the radar shows the there is nothing coming in so the big winter storm warning was a bust…thankfully…but we still have a cold day today and tonight before it warms up Sat and the snow/ice should melt….not much to do today…man, it’s going to be hard to get going today…it’s 6:17 and I have the first cup of coffee in me but I won’t be on the bike before 8 so that gives me some time to just ease into it and read a bit….more later…

Well…okay, got both rides in before 10:30 and that is a direct result of being able to watch tv on my tablet when I rode…the time just flew by and I got the chance to start to watch the original “Leverage” again and that was cool…I discovered something pretty cool about the earbuds when I accidentally hit the on/off switch on one of them and the tablet paused the show…something I would only have found by accident…and the tablet easily got through both rides and still had 80% of the charge left after streaming the entire time….I’m still marveling about my move into modernity with just the gift of a tripod….