You Live, You Learn

Hola!

WARNING: TOOTH STORY.  (A little gross but not terrible.)

I hosted a Pity Party on Facebook yesterday.  But for the benefit of those who don't visit Facebook, and for my own record, I will tell the story here.  :)

PERIODONTIST.  Did you know they could do a skin graft in your mouth?  I know, it sounds WAY too gross, and it is!  But I had it done yesterday.  Why?  Well, long ago, I habitually brushed my teeth way too hard.  Something about thinking the harder I brushed, the cleaner my teeth would be.  NOW I know, that you really need very little pressure on your teeth when you clean them, to get them clean.

But there were a few years there, where I brushed really hard.  To the point of pushing my gums back a little, and now I have a few teeth where the root is slightly exposed.  This is bad.  Your gums support and hold your teeth in place.

So.  Yesterday my periodontist worked on the worst 3 teeth.  She took a tiny bit of tissue from the roof of my mouth and stitched it to the gum where it was receded the worst.  Now my own gum skin will mesh with that graft and make its own new tissue.

EEEeeewww!  I know.  Today my cheek is swollen and bruised a little, even though I have been icing it.  She put this putty stuff on the roof of my mouth to cover the strings of the stitches.  In a few days they will dissolve.

Enough of that!  But I haven't really been in a happy-skipping mood.

TERESA is FOURTEEN!  Happy Birthday to Teresa, on 11-11-11!

**Notice the candles on the pie: they make "11-11-11"**

November 11, 2011.  She had a sleepover last night, with pizza and candles in her Birthday Dessert Request, Butterscotch Pie.  I think they ate another 3 pounds of our Halloween candy.  (And there was much rejoicing.)

VETERAN's DAY.  Always sharing her birthday with her fabulous Aunt Pam, and the soldiers we honor on this day!  She's in pretty good company, then, for her whole life.  :)

LATE, QUICK AUTUMN.  The leaves have changed, now, and most are falling or have fallen.  Yes, in roughly a week's time (last time I said they were green and still on the trees), fall happened and is just about over.  Very strange this year.

Happy (long, in our case) Weekend!  Kari