Update on my broken face and other stuff

Thanks for all the comments on my last entry! I'm terribly excited about this opportunity and want it to start now :)

Someone had asked me about my face since the fall and I realized I haven't updated you guys on that.

My face is healing up just fine. In fact, the gash on my nose and lip are almost completely gone, just little scabs right now. My chin is no longer black and blue, there's still a tender spot there. My knees and shins are the same way. The inside of my lip healed the slowest, and it kept me up at night. Brushing my teeth was painful, the toothpaste felt like it was burning the skin right off. So I switched to baking soda for a few days (which did whiten my teeth and make them feel extra clean too) and the sore spots on the inside of my lip healed right up within days. I think the toothpaste was irritating it.

But the one thing I still struggle with? My front tooth that was knocked loose. I went to the dentist on Friday and they charged me the new patient price since it's the first time I've went without dental insurance. I shouldn't have went to this dentist. He screwed my filling up over and over again in April, remember that? But I thought that was a fluke....

I paid $59 (money I don't have right now thanks to trip recovery) for x-rays he didn't even look at because there's nothing he can do. He mumbled something about doing something and I opened my mouth. He started filing down the tooth below it. A tooth that was perfectly fine. He said he was adjusting the bite to help with pressure, but it ended up making that tooth hurt like hell and caused me to scream.

"Did you hurt that tooth too?" He asked.

Ummm no, but you drilling it hurts. Don't adjust my bite for a temporary problem! It hurt for a few days afterward and now feels really rough on the top.

Then he let me go without doing anything, not even looking at the top tooth that hurts. He said it could turn black and would then need a root canal, but it could be just fine. I need to eat soft foods (I can't let even soft foods touch it) and eat out if the side of my mouth for a few weeks. So that's what I'm doing.

Problem is now its extremely sensitive to cold. Like even if I breathe in cool air, the pain is too much. Drinking my breakfast smoothies or even a cold soda is out if the question. And every once in awhile, without warning, excruciating pain will flare up.

It's no longer the whole tooth, it's the back of the tooth and where my teeth touch. I'm starting to wonder if I hadn't chipped it on accident? I'm still giving it time, but needless to say, it's been difficult these past few days with the cold issue.

I've switched my breakfast smoothies to coffee, which helps with my ADD anyway. It doesn't give me energy, but it helps me focus. I love flavored coffees and prefer espresso over regular coffee, but I can't go to Starbucks every day. So I'm making due. I won't use the flavored creamers with sugar, I'm trying to go all natural and sugar free (and I'm detoxing from sugar for the next two weeks). So what I've done is add pumpkin spice, the actual powdered spice, to my coffee that I brew. Then I'll add a drop of sugar-free pumpkin spice creamer (not too much since it still has corn syrup solids which is ewwww). I'll use almond milk for the rest of the cream, a packet of Truvia and its yummy.

Oh and I met my first short term goal weight loss wise (I put on weight from the vacation, I'm aiming to lose that first and now I'm close). I feel like I'm finally back on track again after the vacation.

Well I better get back to work. I'll be around later!

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