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Bl**dy teeth!
May. 13th, 2009 09:24 pmOn Tuesday morning I noticed that I had a huge swelling between my gum and the inside of my upper lip; it didn't hurt at all, but it was enormous. Even though it didn't hurt, I thought it was probably yet another abscess, so made an emergency appointment for this morning.
When I woke this morning the swelling had gone down a little and my mouth was full of blood. I was pleased, as you can imagine.
My lovely dentist agreed that it was yet another abscess. I told him I'd had one when he was on holiday and had used the emergency prescription of Amoxicillin he left me, which eventually made it disappear, but obviously not permanently. So this time he gave me a double prescription for both Amoxicillin and Metronidazole. Fortunately I asked him if the latter was the drug which makes you very ill if you drink alcohol and he confirmed that it was. Why do they never tell you? Do they assume that someone of my age and appearance is naturally too straight-laced to drink?
So I have to take all this stuff and see him after the Bank Holiday; I didn't even realise there was a Bank Holiday coming up. Wish me luck, everyone, because if this doesn't work, the lbooyd tooth, which has already caused endless trouble and can't be repaired further because it's too hard for the drill to penetrate, will have to be extracted and I am more than sufficiently lacking in the molar department as it is. Sulk!
It's been another lovely day, in fact, you might say a perfect day; incredibly blue sky, endless warm sunshine and an absolute joy to sit out in with a pot of coffee and book. I didn't do any chores in the yard, just sat out there and chilled out. Lovely! Yesterday was a lovely day too, but with a freezing cold wind.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre and succumbed to the BOGOF hostas as well as two pots of mixed salad leaves to cut every day for lunch-time sandwiches, and a beautiful dark blue gentian. I don't know why I bought that, as I have no idea how to look after it and no ericaceous compost for it, but it was such a beautiful blue.............. I was also fortunate enough to find a large, allegedly frost-proof clay pot for £9.99, which must make it the cheapest in the county. I thought I would buy it while I was there because if I'm able to get a dwarf acer next week, it is the perfect pot for it, but if I hadn't already bought it, it would, of course, be out of stock when I wanted it. If I don't get an acer it will be fine for something else.
I spent ages driving round the garden centre in my scooter looking for the gorgeous blue morning glories they had a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't find any, and none of the staff has any recollection of them, buggrit.
As well as a self-seeded buddleia in a tub in the yard, I've found a well-established self-seeded elderflower, about to burst into blossom; I shall try to keep and cherish it. I've also found a tiny self-seeded hawthorn, which I shall cosset. I had a look at espalier fruit trees while I was at the garden centre, but sadly, they are just too big and need too much wall space for a tub in the yard.
I have tomato plants which A sent me to plant out and a couple of cucumbers, which I've never grown before, so I bought a couple of grow bags as well. I also bought some dark blue lobelia, because I can't really believe the stuff I've sown will ever be big enough.
Still no rain, so we've had to water everything with the watering can this evening. What I've bought and planted out in the last couple of weeks is growing like crazy; I'm very pleased.
Tomorrow I have to get up at the crack of dawn (for me) in order to get to an appointment with my lovely lady doctor. I made the appointment a week ago and this was the earliest they had and the only one left for this week. The trouble is that the appointment is at 8.40 am, and I find it so hard to drag myself out of bed early nowadays as my heart condition seems to slow me down dreadfully in the morning. This probably means I'll get very little sleep tonight as I shall be worrying about getting up early enough. Sigh...............
I suppose I'd better dig out the consultant's letter and make a list of what I want to discuss with her before I go to bed.
Oh! Edited just to say that I saw my first butterfly of the year today, a red admiral!!
When I woke this morning the swelling had gone down a little and my mouth was full of blood. I was pleased, as you can imagine.
My lovely dentist agreed that it was yet another abscess. I told him I'd had one when he was on holiday and had used the emergency prescription of Amoxicillin he left me, which eventually made it disappear, but obviously not permanently. So this time he gave me a double prescription for both Amoxicillin and Metronidazole. Fortunately I asked him if the latter was the drug which makes you very ill if you drink alcohol and he confirmed that it was. Why do they never tell you? Do they assume that someone of my age and appearance is naturally too straight-laced to drink?
So I have to take all this stuff and see him after the Bank Holiday; I didn't even realise there was a Bank Holiday coming up. Wish me luck, everyone, because if this doesn't work, the lbooyd tooth, which has already caused endless trouble and can't be repaired further because it's too hard for the drill to penetrate, will have to be extracted and I am more than sufficiently lacking in the molar department as it is. Sulk!
It's been another lovely day, in fact, you might say a perfect day; incredibly blue sky, endless warm sunshine and an absolute joy to sit out in with a pot of coffee and book. I didn't do any chores in the yard, just sat out there and chilled out. Lovely! Yesterday was a lovely day too, but with a freezing cold wind.
Yesterday I went to the garden centre and succumbed to the BOGOF hostas as well as two pots of mixed salad leaves to cut every day for lunch-time sandwiches, and a beautiful dark blue gentian. I don't know why I bought that, as I have no idea how to look after it and no ericaceous compost for it, but it was such a beautiful blue.............. I was also fortunate enough to find a large, allegedly frost-proof clay pot for £9.99, which must make it the cheapest in the county. I thought I would buy it while I was there because if I'm able to get a dwarf acer next week, it is the perfect pot for it, but if I hadn't already bought it, it would, of course, be out of stock when I wanted it. If I don't get an acer it will be fine for something else.
I spent ages driving round the garden centre in my scooter looking for the gorgeous blue morning glories they had a couple of weeks ago, but couldn't find any, and none of the staff has any recollection of them, buggrit.
As well as a self-seeded buddleia in a tub in the yard, I've found a well-established self-seeded elderflower, about to burst into blossom; I shall try to keep and cherish it. I've also found a tiny self-seeded hawthorn, which I shall cosset. I had a look at espalier fruit trees while I was at the garden centre, but sadly, they are just too big and need too much wall space for a tub in the yard.
I have tomato plants which A sent me to plant out and a couple of cucumbers, which I've never grown before, so I bought a couple of grow bags as well. I also bought some dark blue lobelia, because I can't really believe the stuff I've sown will ever be big enough.
Still no rain, so we've had to water everything with the watering can this evening. What I've bought and planted out in the last couple of weeks is growing like crazy; I'm very pleased.
Tomorrow I have to get up at the crack of dawn (for me) in order to get to an appointment with my lovely lady doctor. I made the appointment a week ago and this was the earliest they had and the only one left for this week. The trouble is that the appointment is at 8.40 am, and I find it so hard to drag myself out of bed early nowadays as my heart condition seems to slow me down dreadfully in the morning. This probably means I'll get very little sleep tonight as I shall be worrying about getting up early enough. Sigh...............
I suppose I'd better dig out the consultant's letter and make a list of what I want to discuss with her before I go to bed.
Oh! Edited just to say that I saw my first butterfly of the year today, a red admiral!!
