Showing posts with label braces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label braces. Show all posts

That one sore tooth!

I am VERY impressed with what is happening in my mouth. I can see the difference. I am able to see how the teeth are straitening. I can feel it too! It is difficult to talk, as my teeth are never where they have been, so my tongue forever has to guess its way around my mouth. The same when I am eating…

Small pebble in the shoe though: I have this one sore tooth. Seemingly, this tooth is out of sync with the rest. I keep biting on it. It is sore and every bite adds to this pain. I am not even trying to eat on this side of my mouth anymore.

Fortunately, the appointment with the orthodontist looms. I bite on my teeth (ouch! that odd one felt it again) and anticipate this meeting, where I may complain about a sore tooth.

Thursday morning. I walk into the consulting rooms boldly to explain the situation. The mechanic just smiles and tells me that it is NO problem, takes his pliers, grab my jaw and gives my tooth (OK, the hook on the tooth) a twist that almost send me into the arms of the tooth mouse. He grins satisfied and declares the problem solved. I bite on my teeth and… it is solved!

So to all the women out there who want your man to listen and not to solve your problems – I suggest that you lie back, give him the pliers and trust him to solve it all in one skillful, albeit painful twist.

To my single friends…. Discover the man inside you and trust him with all your being (this should not be so difficult – it is after all you). Be bold, give that problem a skillful, albeit painful twist and… voila! A pain free existence…(until the tooth moves again).

A month later.

It is a month, since I got braces. A month in which my teeth was hurting, the hurting became a nagging pain. The nagging pain became tiredness... Then there was the adaptation to the new settings, after the monthly check-up at Dr. Esra. And here I sit tonight and I AM VERY IMPRESSED! The two front teeth (the ones which made me the most self-conscious), are almost straight! If they were like this, I would not have had to go through this process.

In this month, I had to learn to brush my teeth, floss, eat, drink, and close my mouth and smile "mindfully". In this month, I knew whereto I was working and what I was planning for myself. I was willing to go through all this adaptation and pain to reach my goal, of straight teeth... I had some shocks, when there suddenly appear gaps between teeth - I did not want to trade skew teeth for Madonna teeth ;-)

In this month I got some for which, I prepared myself and some for which I was not prepared.

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In this month, I also had a life outside of my mouth.

I became extremely tired for no apparent reason at all. I was happy and hardworking, I was sad and hurt and unable to work. I had to learn to work beyond my tiredness to reach my work goals. I had to learn to live beyond the pain of an old love to reach my goal of finding answers. I found the unexpected answer, whilst I had no energy to deal with it.

I got some for which I was prepared and some for which I was not prepared. I did not know what I shall find and whether I shall like what I find. What I found were answers, I did not like, but which did bring an end to suffering. What I found was a self-affirming knowledge that I shall be at the right place at the right time. What I found was a self-affirming knowledge that I have excellent instincts, which I need tot learn to trust. What I found was a self-affirming awareness of my strength and wholeness.

And here I sit tonight and I AM VERY IMPRESSED! I am smiling and totally in love with myself. I have come very far and I am flowing strong…

Dag 7: Mindful closing of the mouth

Ek is nou al goed moeg vir hierdie draadjies in my mond!

Die tande bly knaend seer. Dit is nou nie seer dat mens wil huil nie. Dit is ook nie seer genoeg vir pynpille nie, dit is net so knaend!

Die weirdste, is die gesukkel om jou mond toe te maak. Ek meen, doen dit: maak jou mond toe! Sien, jy dink nie eers twee keer daaroor nie. Met die draadjies is dit egter 'n heel ander storie: Mindful closing of the mouth. Eers voel ek waar is my lippe. Dan volg ek die pyn om te weet waar is my tande (hulle is besig om te skuif, onthou, hulle is nie waar hulle nou-nou was nie!) Wanneer ek weet waar alles is beweeg ek die lippe, ongesiens om en oor die tande en draadjies. Dit word gevolg deur die groot konsentrasie om die lippe te sluit (dis brommer tyd).

Eet is nog maklik en al minder pynlik, maar drink! Waar is die tande... volg die dowwe pyn, goed so die draadjie is daaaar... sit koppie versigtig teen lippe, maak lippe versigtig om en oor die tande en draadjie... stewig teen rand van koppie... kantel koppie versigig.... shit!!! dit loop teen my ken af... vee af! Versigtig, MINDFUL, konsentreer....

Dag 3: middagete

Ek is lus vir sjokolade!!

Ek eet elke dag 'n blokkie, of twee, of meer donker sjokolade. Dit is hard en my tande is te seer om dit te kou of ergste, af te byt!

Gelukkig is ek die trotse eienaar van 'n... mikrogolfoond! Blokkies word geduldig in die oond gedruk en gesmelt tot sag... salig....

Dag 3

Word wakker in groot pyn. My onderste en boonste kaak raak net-net aanmekaar, maar dit voel asof ek die heel nag op my tande gekners het.

Dag 2: middagete

Nou wat op die aarde is dit hierdie? Mindful eating? Eating like a bird?

Die binnekant van my mond is nie so seer as wat ek verwag het nie, maar my tande is seer. Hierdie bejaarde tande is nie lus om enigsins êrens heen te skuif nie. Ek kan nie byt nie, en ek kan nie kou nie. Middagete is net so lank, ek moet kou en sluk! Hierdie tande het egter 'n heel ander idee. Elke happie word piepklein gesny en saggies en stadig gekou en heel ingesluk.

Dit is nie net seer nie, dit voel ook baie snaaks. Elke kou is 'n versigtige, bewuste, onseker kou.

Gelukkig het ek Maandag, die idee in my kop gekry om boontjies en wortels saam met aartappels fyn te kook en te "mash". Dit eet heelwat makliker as wat 'n gewone middagete van geblansjeerde groente sou geëet het.

Entry number 1!!!

Dinsdag, 30 Maart 2010

Ek het vandag my draadjies gekry! Vandag in die ortodontis se spreekkamer ingestap en 'n halfuur later uitgestap met 'n hakie aan elke botand en 'n metaal draadjie daar deur geryg. Die hakies, op die agterste tande, is glo keramiek - lyk vir my maar heel metalerig. Die hakies op die voorstes is glo porselein. Ek betaal 'n arm en 'n been ekstra vir hierdie "see-through" hakies. Dis egter die moeite werd!!

Ek sou nou verkies het om die hele konkoksie AGTER my tande te hê. Ag wel, dis net vir 10 maande!! Daarna - die pragtigste stel reguit tande!

Goed, daar was ek nou klaar MEJ. POSITIEF. Dit is seeeeer! Dit was onmiddelik seer. Ek het gedink die aansit sal seer wees, maar dit was nie. Glad nie 'n aangename ervaring nie, maar nie seer nie. Terwyl hy die tande gevyl het - om spasie te maak en die "dark tri-angles" weg te vat, was die koue water seer op die sensitiewe tande. Die oomblik wat daardie draadjie egter deurgewerk was, het die druk en trek proses begin. En dit is seeeeeer.

En toe onthou ek, elke maand wat ek teruggaan dat hy die storie stywer trek, gaan dit weer van voor af seer wees!

Terwyl hy ewe knaphandig hier in my mond werk soos 'n wafferse mechanic, het die ortodontis my mooi verduidelik: geen rooi wyn, geen kerrie, geen niks wat porselein mag vlek nie. Koop hierdie tandeborsels wat soos kersbome lyk en "superflos". Ewe plegtig oorhandig hy die was - party mense gebruik die hele pakkie en ander omtrent niks, dit hang net af hoe vinnig die mond aanpas by die draadjies. Nou dit kan ek onthou. As kind het die draadjies my mond flenters gesny. Hierop was ek voorbereid, maar ek het nie geweet van was nie...

Terug by die werk is ek verlig om te sien nie almal sien dadelik die draadjies nie. Die druk en trek aksie in my mond is egter baie seer en ek is naar. Kan nie wag vir etenstyd, sodat ek kan eet en pynpille kry nie!