Not exactly a fasting day

[lauradi7dw]

Last night I was chewing a soft prune (not so dried out that it was hard) and felt something sort of crunch between my teeth. The two likely options were a pit that hadn't been removed in the factory or a crown. It was a crown. I had cream of wheat for breakfast and a cup of milk for lunch. The dental office squeezed me in this afternoon, so now I'm counting down the hours of cement hardening until I'm allowed to eat. The dentist was sorrowful that I would do something like eat a sticky substance.* She warned me again that #18 (for reasons I don't recall) has unusually short roots and if the crown gets pulled off again, it might bring the whole tooth with it. Doesn't that actually say something about the strength of the dental cement?
They are planning to start prepping for ANOTHER crown (different quadrant of my mouth, I think it's #4) next week but the crown won't be ordered until January, on the off-chance that the insurance will pay part of it. I have more than maxed-out my coverage for this year.

* I am hypothetically allowed "nothing sticky, nothing chewy, nothing hard." I really don't feel that I can give up dried fruit. I like white bread, which sometimes is chewy. Hard can include some types of crunchy but not all. I hope. I'd hate to live without corn chips. I adapted to only having sliced almonds instead of whole ones.

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[sabotabby]

Oof. I'm sorry.