03
Oct
Physical Trauma
I suffered from some serious physical trauma a few days ago, while I was brushing my teeth. Something caused my hand to slip, and caused the toothbrush to ram its hard plastic head into my lower gums. It’s serious because the ulcer that formed stings badly whenever I eat something remotely acidic. And it’s physical trauma because Wikipedia says so.
I pulled down my lower lip in front of the mirror, and saw two angry yellow welt-like stuff that looked as if they were about to burst. Seriously, I was tempted to poke at them. Needles are fun to play with, and physically poking at something that is hurting sometimes feel astonishingly therapeutic to me. I mean, the stuff is hurting by itself already; how much worse could it get?
Alas, the sadomasochistic side of me could not be satisfied this time, because when I physically touched the yellow thing with my index finger, there was a sudden rush of pain that it felt like the entire universe’s suffering and anguish was being stored in those welts. I didn’t touch it afterwards… except with my tongue. The sore tastes strangely salty (does anybody know why?)
Though I feel a lot better now, the ulcers still hurt a lot when I have my meals. Milk seems to soothe the pain, but it’s likely to be acting more as a binding agent to the acid in the food, rather than as an anaesthetic. Thank goodness these kind of ulcers heal eventually, because being punished for eating your favourite food is one of the worse things that can happen to a species that relies on food for sustenance.
on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Oioioi, pkchu! You have PUS in those wounds!
That’s not good. I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t want to play around with pus. The last time I had pus in my mouth, I was sent for dental surgery, scalpel and blood and yellow pus. And my gum was seriously whacked for a while.
Go see a dentist!
on October 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Thanks for your concern! The welt has subsided, and now has become a welt with a hole in the middle… I don’t know what it means, but I love posting the graphic description
Don’t you think that I brush my teeth real hard?
Hopefully, I don’t need a trip to the dentist, because after I heard about Xiang Ju’s trip to the dentist once, I’m terrified by the 4-digit treatment bill.
On 2nd thoughts, should I go into dentistry? It sounds lucrative!
on October 6th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I will tell you what we will do. Haha. Anyway the thing if now become a welt with a hole in the middle, i think it is pretty much an ulcer, so what you can try is applying medicine on it (i have a powder medicine for it, its green in colour, works very well for ulcers, think you should know what it is) or for faster attainment of recovery plus a really high feeling, try applying a teaspoon of salt, or rather enough amounts of salt to cover the hole, onto the hole. Guarantee plus chop to make you feel like you are flying. Haha.
on October 6th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
No thanks, I’m not a SAF pilot, so I don’t really want to fly. I don’t want to eat salt too, need to control my NaCl intake. So that leaves one more thing… Poke it. If dentists were not so expensive, I would’ve asked one to poke the wound for me