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Executive summary: I'm going to lose teeth & spend much time & money on dentist/ periodontist over the next year or two. I've begun Japanese acupuncture, which is different from Chinese.
Dentist says I'm healing well from the extraction & the infection that caused it. She walked me over to the periodontist & made an appointment there, plus the followup appointment with her. There is no doubt I'll be spending lots of time & money with both of them. I'm going to lose some teeth. I'm going to need implants. I'm cheering myself up by thinking about what kind of bling I want in my implants.
Had my first acupuncture appointment with a new practitioner, Dan Zizza. He does a different style than I'm accustomed to - Japanese. No insertion of needles followed by a timeless stretch of flotation while they cook. In Japanese style, the practitioner barely inserts the needles, then waits for the "wave" that indicates the chi has built up. I'm up for it, but I do miss that lovely floating-on-chi feeling I remember from Chinese style. As usual for me, the treatment is for weak spleen.
I'm permitting myself a tiny sliver of hope that this & other interventions might restore me enough energy to support a life beyond going to work, then coming home to crumble in an exhausted, ouchy heap.
Dentist says I'm healing well from the extraction & the infection that caused it. She walked me over to the periodontist & made an appointment there, plus the followup appointment with her. There is no doubt I'll be spending lots of time & money with both of them. I'm going to lose some teeth. I'm going to need implants. I'm cheering myself up by thinking about what kind of bling I want in my implants.
Had my first acupuncture appointment with a new practitioner, Dan Zizza. He does a different style than I'm accustomed to - Japanese. No insertion of needles followed by a timeless stretch of flotation while they cook. In Japanese style, the practitioner barely inserts the needles, then waits for the "wave" that indicates the chi has built up. I'm up for it, but I do miss that lovely floating-on-chi feeling I remember from Chinese style. As usual for me, the treatment is for weak spleen.
I'm permitting myself a tiny sliver of hope that this & other interventions might restore me enough energy to support a life beyond going to work, then coming home to crumble in an exhausted, ouchy heap.