Good News! Sort of!

[pyat]

Well, the dental surgeon went poking in my mouth today again. Last week, he'd entirely failed to find the weird lump of flesh at the back of my mouth. It is protruding from the jaw bone behind the top rearmost tooth on the left side. If you can picture that. My range of jaw motion is almost back to normal, and there's no pain any more.

This time, I took care give more precise directions. He poked his mirror in and said, "Oh! Look at that. What is that? There's a white..." *mumblemumble* *pokepoke* "There's a hole, or a... Does this hurt?" *Jab, wigglewiggle*

After a few moments of this, he relented. He said he was stumped by the precise nature of the "lump." It has a "hole" in it, and a small hard thing was impacted in it. He suggested it was a tiny salivary stone that was impacted in a minor salivary gland, noting that he'd looked at a major duct before, which is one reason he'd not seen this. It's also possible it was something I'd ingested. The stone(?) crumbled as he removed it. It left behind the lump. With a hole in it. He stuck a probe into it and found nothing. The lump remains.

I go back in a month, to get the lump inspected.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

He rebooted me!

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I meant more as a tracking device :)