Tuesday AM I rolled into the perio office. I was escorted to a surgical suite, sat in the chair, she put o bib around my neck and leaned me back. The DR came in. we engaged in some pleasantries, my desire was info gathering but also stalling. Enough. He told me to open and he went to work. Several novocaine sticks deadened my mouth. If only the shots didn’t hurt so much. He cut a sizeable piece from the roof of my mouth for the graft then prepared the gum line to receive new tissue. He sewed the graft on then put a patch on the roof of my mouth. Then I was let go.
I bought cottage cheese and Smuckers strawberry preserves then returned to Deer Pass. He prescribed 600mg of ibu every 6 hours which for the most part eliminated the pain. A sneeze signal was sent to the involuntary muscles. i tried to stifle it to no avail. The sneeze blew off the patch on the roof of my mouth. Once and done he told me. Some bleeding occurred as I swallowed it, after a bit the blood clotted.
I sat and read into bed time. After dark a sprinter van pulled in almost into my spot. They built a campfire and sat around it into the night. I heard them talking while I was going to sleep.
Yesterday morning the perio office called checking on me. I told about the missing patch. She was able to get me into the Cottonwood office for a check. I drove down following the gps directions. The gps missed the location and sent me around the big block once more as I swore at the woman’s voice giving directions. I found the spot. The DR examined my mouth then reported I am healing fine and if it was him he would not replace the patch.
I drove back to Sedona. I stopped at The Worm bookstore to give back the book I just finished: My Grandmother asked me to Apologize. Mike is a metallurgical engineer. We chatted about books and life. I stopped at Fat Tire for a visit and to wash my bike. Scott from Hood River was there. A customer walked in for bike work. He is from Ashland, OR. We had OR lined out. My bike is cleaner.
I made arrangement for edibles.
Last night I participated in the VVCC bike club meeting. The club now has an agreement w/ the FS to do trail work independent of the FS scheduled work days, this allows mtn bikers to work where we need it more. Afterwards I drove out to the empty overlook for the night. Still chilly enough at night for the furnace to be needed.
Today I drove up to west Sedona to do laundry. I will drive back down to VOC to PJs to watch the Zags game tonight.
Friday marks the day that I can put hot liquids in my mouth and inhale. And ride. I will do a gentle recovery ride and learn about the new Praxis cranks.
That mobile home at Deer Pass was moved on Monday is what I know.
Steve of Sun Valley sent me a utube of a large front loader moving snow on his driveway. Today he set me a pic of the path to his entry door. There is close to 3 feet of snow. He retaliated to my beautiful snow free pic of the sunset on red rocks.No snow here.
Forecast is for rain till Sunday.
IMBA doe not allow members to vote, us members have no power over the direction of the organization.
For 2016 I rode 233 rides totaling 3341 miles.
