June 23, 2011
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Back to Baywatch
I might be missing my front tooth, but I can still blow that whistle and run in slow-mo.
After a 36 hour delay in D.C., I got home last Friday evening. Back in the USA after a year in Germany – wow.
Last Monday was my first surgery, a bone graft. Sounds terribly fun, doesn’t it? This coming Monday I get the brace taken off and get fitted for a retainer complete with a fake tooth. The remaining front tooth will hopefully get a cap, and eventually a root canal (get’s better and better). Hopefully they don’t have to take it out, otherwise it will be a second bone graft. Ugh. I hate the dentist.
After the dentist, I went to the clinic for my mandatory drug test. My job got the results, and they gave me my rehire forms. As of Wednesday I’ve been back at work lifeguarding. Maybe it sounds stupid, but I hope I get to help someone this year.
Then maybe I’ll feel like I deserved to live through that freak accident…
Markus is enjoying America. I think I might talk him into staying!
Food Diary
B - 1 cup halves strawberries (49 cal), 1 banana (105 cal)
L - Miso Soup (35 cal), 18 rice cakes (140 cal)
D – Udon Noodles (250 cal), 1/2 chicken breast (142 cal), 1 1/2 cup milk (180 cal)
Total - 901 cal
Comments (11)
I can completely understand wanting to help someone. It’s a lot like the phenomenon that a lot of people (including me) feel when someone close to them dies: it makes them want to have sex with the one they love, because that reaffirms life. I’m not an expert in the field, but I’d hazard a guess it has the same psychological roots.
Glad to hear you’re getting better. Please keep us all informed.
36 hour delay?? That’s crazy! So for 36 hours you were near by. Should have visited haha
oh, you did deserve to live. At least as much as anyone. I’ll bet you’re feeling hungry.
You definitely deserved to survive, don’t question that!
The dentist isn’t going to implant a tooth? That’s what I would have expected/asked for, I think.
@ArmyWife4Life2007 - I can get a screw in my jaw where the build a tooth, but my jaw has to heal first. It will be another 6 months before we even talk about it ha.
@phantomFive - Yeah I ended up eating a PB&J. Haha I think I’m going to start swimming so I can eat normally.
@Roadlesstaken - It was terrible but yeah, I should have headed over ha!
@TheSchizoidMan - A lot of good things come out of trauma. I actually did save a little girl yesterday…!
@sonnigenmai - I’m glad to hear it. You’ll have to tell us about when you feel well enough to write at any length again.
@sonnigenmai - Wow, I would be the most impatient patient ever, haa. I wish you an easy recovery &the best with the entire process!
how is summer?
I am going to the midwest next week
I went to Illinois
hi