Get ready to be grossed out. Seriously. The faint of heart should look no further.
Last Monday I went to the dentist and I'm not sure how it happened, but my tongue was somehow burned. At least, that's the explanation I've come up with. It may have been some hot fried pickles the night before, but I would have noticed this bad an injury, right? I have not mentioned it before now because I wasn't sure if I should tell my parents. We have this new agreement that I am not to tell them anything about my life other than A. I'm doing well in school B. that I'm eating healthy and C. that I'm generally happy. This tongue incident does not fall under any of those, but how weird is it?? I felt like I needed to share this with you guys. Here it is:
This is what it looked like the first day.
This is what it looked like a few days later. I thought it may have been infected (note the yellowness on the inside,) so I started on some salt water rinses and Orabase.
Here's what it looks like now. I think it's healing nicely. It's still painful to eat pretty much anything, but much less so than at first. Of course, initially I was stupid and had citrus fruit and sharp edged, salty corn chips and the likes. Now I'm on soup, pasta, pudding and other soft, neutral food. As soon as I'm healed, I'm having nachos and spicy curry! Has this ever happened to anyone you know? I thought it was bizarre. Sorry for grossing you out - but imagine if it was in YOUR mouth? I will take a picture if there is a cool scar after I've healed.
This incident has reminded me of some other injuries I've had. Looking through my old photos I discovered I have a bit of a penchant for documenting my bodily ailments. I have pictures of spider bites, bruises in various stages of color, cat claw marks and more. I've even started documenting my friends issues. I have a nice picture of my friends twisted ankle, which turned out to also be two broken toes! Why is this such a fascinating subject?
3 comments:
Ouch, Liz! That looks super gross. But I LOVE fried pickles, and I'm glad someone else appreciates them, too.
I share you oral pain. Not the exact burning of the tongue, but I've had a couple of SEVERE cases of gingivitis. Who know that g-tis was real? I thought it was just made up for listerine commericals.
Anyhoo, mouth pain is very difficutl to control. You are a Goddess of Fortitude!
ETM
You know, Liz...this penchant for injury documentation goes right along with your fascination of that creepy museum you visited right after you moved to Texas. Were you a serial killer in another life? Do you have blackouts where you can't remember where you were or what you did? Yet, you have clothing with dirt smudges that turn out to be blood stains? Hmmm. Could be another case of Sybil or Three Faces of Eve...with a criminal element.
:)
ETm
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