Tooth extractions part III

First. A Happy New Year to all.

On to the story.
Today I began the second part of my journey wearing dentures.
As you'll recall, last year I had my upper teeth removed and a
full upper plate made. I have gotten used to that. Solid solid
food is still, to this day, not all that easy for mr s. -that's
me- to eat. I finish last -and I am not racing- most of the time.

The lower teeth came out today. As of 11 EST (-5 GMT), I am totaly
with out my natural teeth.

I needed more Novacain today then I did last year. More to the tune of
four shots to the left jaw, three to the right and one, spaced along the
front gum. It all wore off around 1300 (1 PM).

I can speak well and have the occaisional twinge from the sutures.
Meds to combat the pain and infection. NO. I don't have an infection.
The meds for that are to keep it from developing.

In four weeks I begin the final steps in all of this. I'll have a mold
made of the lower gum. Five weeks later, with a week break to allow the dental
practice a vacation -their choice, not mine, I'll have my lower deture in place.

I am hoping that solid solid foods will be easier to eat. I will trully miss
a good deal of foods if it becomes too hard to eat. Corn on the cob and apples
being two of them.

I'll keep y'all posted.

More to come

Full upper tooth extraction...

...HURTS. At least it does after the numbing agent -Lidocaine in this case- has worn off.

Today I had all my upper teeth pulled out in preperation for dentures. The uppers came out today. The lowers in January.

I took four Advil soon after the Lidocaine began to wear off two hours after I returned home. The prescrbed med. was taken at 5:00 EDT (-5 GMT) It helps.
Not as much as the Advil does though. Then again, the Advil is in a higher dose.
Not to mention a higher allowable dose.

Back to the pain part. I've delt with the extraction pain before. Many a year ago. After the extraction of all four wisdom teeth at one go. That, gentle reader, HURT LIKE A BITCH after the numbing agent, Novacaine in that case, wore off. Tylenol 3 prescribed for that. If that weren't a prescibed pain killer I'd use that for ALL my aches and pains. Dental and otherwise.

I don't deal with pain well. The meds are a welcome thing.

I am in bed recovering and will be here most of the rest of the day and a good portion of tomorrow (Tuesday)as well.

Wish me well.

-More to come

Shopping for new computers.

Such fun. Such a pain in the posterior. What type? Laptop, tablet, desktop? What brand? Dell? Compaq? HP? Toshiba? The list goes on. How much memory? Hard drive space? Screen size? On this one goes, as well.
Which OS? Windows and which variant? XP, Vista? Apple and, again, which variant?
OS X, Leopard? Linux -and the learning curve that comes along with that one. Which add-ons will we need to buy? Mice, thumb drives, cases, back-packs, batteries.

What ever we do end up getting, and we are pretty much decided on brand/s and OSes and all the stuff that is included on that front, it'll be better than a desktop that was handed down to us by father when he bought a new desktop five years ago.
At that point the handed down comp. was already two or three years old. At least it had XP.

Either way, it means brand new. NO MORE second hand electronics for us.
A few weeks to go and this will all be taken care of. I'll be able to sit in a comfy chair or lounge in bed and post to this blog. Jen'll be able to surf while I chat with friends two time-zones away on AIM. We can go to the local StarBux or other WiFI-enabled local and browse the latest headlines that are of interest. All that and more.

Now for the pain in the posterior part. Making sure that the programs we use the most are either copied to disc for easier movig to the laptop or downloaded to the new computers.
It also means that any shared programs have the appropriate personal files moved to the appropriate computer.

I'll post more on this later. In the mean time, Jen and I get to "shop" via the current POS and get an idea of what's out there, which additional items we'll need to purchase now and which can wait for a bit.

-More to come