Overall this Winter Break has been strange.
I spent the first week or two sick in bed, and kept the sore throat for some time after.
Figured that was going to be the end of my rainy season hardships. But then it actually started raining hard in SoCal and everything fell apart again.
Just after finishing my Breath of the Wild post yesterday, I’m pretty sure I was hit with some kind of strange bug. I tried to sleep from 5:00 p.m. or so until this morning and honestly had trouble because I couldn’t warm up and all of my joints hurt.
What made it especially strange was that it seemed entirely confined to one night. By the time I woke up this morning, the sensation had passed.
Really the only effect of that brief, yet intense little cold was the fact that it sapped away all of my sleep. I’m sure you’ve all had those nights where you didn’t get any in spite of losing a number of hours laying in bed.
That was me.
Unfortunately, that lack of sleep came back to bite me in the ass this morning twice over.
First when I had to wake up extra early, around 6:00 a.m. or so, to take out the trash since Thursdays are garbage day and I happened to be so out of it that I forgot to pull it together last night.
Then when I had to re-wake up not much longer after to go to my 10:00 a.m. orthodontist appointment.
A few weeks back the permanent retainer on the back of my top teeth broke. I mentioned it briefly in a post where I was venting about a lot of stuff, It was an issue I meant to resolve much earlier, but that big bout of sickness happened to come about right when I had my first appointment scheduled, so I had to cancel it.
Can’t really justify forcing some poor folks to dig around in my mouth while I’m coughing and probably breathing out all kinds of nasty particulates.
Unfortunately that kindness toward the orthodontists was a double-edged sword. Apparently in the few short weeks since that bracket broke, my two front teeth have already started to drift apart. By this point the gap, as relatively unnoticeable as it is for me, was big enough to warrant not moving forward on repairs today.
Instead I’m going to wear my regular retainer 24/7 to try to bring my teeth back into place so we can seal them in place again.
On the bright side, that meant we didn’t have to pay for anything today because no work was done besides cleaning the cement where the old bracket was.
On the less bright side, wearing that thing so much after admittedly not doing so over the last few years makes for a very uncomfortable sensation in my mouth.
Thus it’s been a few days of joint pain and gum pain. As per the advertised joys of being 21.
Hopefully as the rain starts to fade into the weekend, all will start to feel better. That’s all I can ask for with school starting next week.
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