Ascribing thoughts to a body part

Poor #19 was removed yesterday. I had been feeling regretful for days. How could decay have gotten started underneath in that way? It must be a combination of too much sticky dried fruit plus not enough cleaning (although probably part of it is the fact that my gums are receding, offering new interesting habitats for bacteria). It had done its best, and I felt bad for it. I continued to feel this way as it was being extracted. It took a very long time. It tried very hard to stay put (try may be the wrong word here). I remembered from #31, years ago, that the dentist cut the top part in half, more or less, so that each root part could be removed separately. The endodontist yesterday did that too, after some thought, but also wiggled each part slowly to preserve intact as much of the underneath structure as possible, getting ready for the future implant. They were very surprised that I wanted the parts (two halves of tooth plus the gold crown). She said "it's a biohazard. We'd have to do (something or other to sterilize it)." I said that if she's just thinking of blood, my whole body is a biohazard to other people, but not to me. They had the parts resting on a piece of gauze on the tray. I folded it up and stuck it in my pocket. I wiped everything down with alcohol when I got home and put them into an empty pill bottle. I have the other one. I have Flo's baby teeth.* Does this kind of keeping behavior make sense?
I am icing the outside of my face near the jaw, taking ibuprofen and amoxicillin (and eating yogurt), avoiding nuts and seeds and anything else that might get caught in the hole.

* I don't remember what we told Flo about the Tooth Fairy. We definitely didn't do Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny with her - her short Christmas list was a letter to my parents. We gave her Chanukah stuff at candle lighting time. I handed her the Easter treats directly. I should ask her. Maybe we just said that people get money for baby teeth and didn't say from whom?

Unofficial case study, confirming beliefs

I follow Ed Hope on youtube. He's a doctor in the UK. He & his friend are currently isolating after recovering from an at-home bout of Covid. He has spent more than a year treating Covid patients in a hospital without getting sick, but he and his girlfriend came down with the same symptoms at the same time after eating at a restaurant. He takes this as confirmation that PPE can keep people safe. I feel justified in my feeling that eating indoors with people whose status you don't know is too dangerous. We both believe that their illness was fairly mild because they were vaccinated.
First video after diagnosis, including sad news story about someone else
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hfE7r9OEXE

Blindfold taste test after losing sense of taste and smell. It turns out he could still feel burning (vinegar, chiles, alcohol) and tell if something was salty or sweet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T_ZIWLKbhtE