dental update and question.

[sdn]

i am healing well, although i still look as if i have been socked in the face.

one of my colleagues said something interesting today: "everyone has one bad part of his or her body." mine is clearly my teeth. what is yours? elaborate as necessary.

edited to add: your comments here and on facebook have made me feel less alone.

Comments

[orbitalmechanic]

My doctor told me that too. Mine is my skin, or at least my skin is the thing that inexplicably goes crazy all the time. I bust out in strange rashes, I put two different prescription things on my face to keep looking normal, once I got ringworm from NOWHERE. Ringworm! I don't have allergies and my skin isn't especially sensitive, it just sometimes goes haywire.

(My doctor also says a lot of people have a side, where things go wrong on one side of the body but not the other!)

[orbitalmechanic]

(Oh, I have really bad gums too, but I know I got that from my father, and that responds well to maintenance. The skin thing, who knows.)

[meener]

My doctor also says a lot of people have a side, where things go wrong on one side of the body but not the other!

that's me! my right side is a born troublemaker. right vision worst than the left, pimples always on the right side of my face, cavities congregating on the right side of my mouth, etc.

sup badteeth buddy

[derspatchel]

I'm with you. I inherited bad teeth from my dad; that's the best explanation I can come up for it. I hate 'em, I really do, but can't afford to have any kind of reconstructive surgery right now.

I think we had a conversation a while back on the stupidest thing you've broken a tooth on, right? (Mine was a warm and soft meatball sub.)

Re: sup badteeth buddy

[sdn]

you know, i don't remember. i don't think i've ever broken a tooth on something soft -- the last one involved a piece of stale bread. what's most chilling to me is that i can go back five years on lj and see all of the work and time and money that went into the tooth that has now been yanked.

[tylik]

Skeletal alignment? Actually, a lot of it works, but I have substantial problems with my legs (though they're getting better) and of course I've blown out a large number of the ligaments on my spine...

And darn it, I *work* more at skeletal alignment than anyone I know. I *know* I signed up for the no-frills low maintenance efficiency model. What happened?!

[raanve]

I'm inclined to say "my brain" - but there's a lot to like about my brain. Leaving aside chronic migraine and my various flavors of mental health funtimes.

[wrdnrd]

Yeah, ditto. But following quickly after that is my spine (thanks for the scoliosis, Gpa). And, lately, my feet -- broke my right foot back in 2004 (jumping over my couch, which okay was maybe not the smartest thing i've ever done but it makes a good story), bone-bruised the hell out of the right foot earlier this year (kickstarting our sidecar-scooter), and now have a sprained ankle on my left foot thanks to falling down 3 simple steps outside the building where i've lived for 6.5 years.

WHERE'S MY ROBUT BODY???

[jenett]

My lungs. All the way.

(Asthma, allergies, bacterial pneumonia when I was 11 that left lung scarring that doesn't play well with the asthma. Yeah. Lungs.)