Archive for April, 2008

Broken Tooth Pt.2

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Leeroy hit me in the mouth a week ago. I went to my dentist on Thursday and it was… well… lets just say my tooth is not going to fall out… yet.

He did a root canal and had to re-shape my tooth with a drill. Turns out Leeroy hit me so hard that he not only knocked it loose, he actually re-positioned the tooth and now the lower right corner was blocking my ability to bite down all the way. All this meant that my tooth was healing (sort of, keep reading) but in a different place than it should.

He said if he could have gotten to it right away he could re-position it, but since it had been a couple of days he had to re-shape it. Not only that, but there was a huge apses forming above my tooth and if I would have left it, the tooth would have been rejected by my body in a couple months anyways.

So he did a root canal, reshaped it, and I’m going back next Monday for a follow up and some more adjustments. I does still hurt and I can bite anything with the tooth, but Advil works wonders and I can eat things if I cut them up. There is still a danger that I cracked the root of my tooth and if that happened I could loose the tooth, but not for a long time (possibly decades).

So yeah… I don’t have pirate teeth yet and I’m very happy that I am not one of the 1/3 Americans who do not have dental insurance. Even if it did end up falling out in 10 years, maybe I could get a cool ass gold tooth and become a rapper. Maybe.

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Lack of tech posts

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

I guess it appears like I haven’t been doing much since there has been a lack of new posts on here, moreover a lack of tech related posts. Well, usually I post a techy post if I stumble upon something new and/or interesting at work and obviously its been kinda quiet on that front.

So what have I been up to then? Well, work wise, it has been mostly hacking Drupal and Windows Server related. Pretty boring. Nothing makes great blog posts like managing Active Directory and setting up Roaming Profiles… (Sarcasim)

In the personal realm of things there are a couple of things happening. We are looking for a new place, which is always interesting. We want a bigger place and somewhere over the hill so my commute is shorter. Just getting up by Miller Hill or in Hermantown will cut about 20 minutes off my commute, which is over an hour right now.

We also need a place that accepts dogs. Ugh. Then you throw in that we can afford a pretty nice place, but then that extra couple of hundred bucks we could save by just getting your run of mill apartment rather than a townhome or whatever could be put towards credit cards or student loans, and well, it gets complicated. We are really trying to pay off debt, as living debt free is a goal of ours.

Jen and I have started to take dancing lessons. It is pretty funny and a good time. We are the youngest couple by at least 20 years, but I think the other people at the class like having a younger couple there. It is also nice to see that I’m not the only person that sucks at dancing out there. Anyways, it is tons of fun and I recommend it to any couple out there.

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Broke my tooth…

Monday, April 21st, 2008

The other day I was holding on to our pup, Leeroy, and he threw his head back and drilled me in the face. After a little blood and four letter words, I realized my front top tooth didn’t feel right.. and was a little crooked.. and was loose.

Took a trip to Urgent Care where the doc said he thought it looked as good ( like its not gonna just fall out) and I’m calling the dentist today.

The worst part of this isn’t how much it hurts, but its the fact I can’t eat anything except coffee, yogurt, and pudding. I had french onion soup, but I literally couldn’t even chew the soggy onions.  Liquid food just doesn’t really fill you up like a nice steak or slice of pizza..

[update]  Can’t get into the dentist till Thursday.

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