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

[relee.livejournal.com]

That sounds excessively disturbing. *hugs*

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Evolution in action: You're growing backup esophagii. Congratulations! n.n

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Or my esophagus is growing a backup me.

I must admit, when he said, "Hey, there's some kind of hard white thing stuck in a hole," I thought at first he was either mocking me or seeing a tooth for the first time. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Pokey, yes, but not too bad. :)

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Excellent news, hopefully in a few days you will be entirely lumpless.

[zenten.livejournal.com]

He didn't find circuitry, did he?

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

(*headdesk*) Reminds me of that night at the concert. "Hey, somebody drew little dots all over the straight lines on my papers!!"

[the-vulture.livejournal.com]

With that blockage gone, maybe whatever's all swollen up will decide to unswell.

And maybe afterwards you'll be able to pick up Mexican radio through your fillings. :)

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

Maybe it is your unborn twin.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

That sounds like good news, on the whole. I'm glad he saw it and hope the lump disappears soon. *hugs*

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Yeeagh!

I'm glad that you're nearly back to normal (for you ;)
and hope that your mouth heals quickly now that it's not trying to grow pearls!

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

I thought that mousey pearls were... you know... black.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Those don't come from my mouth, unless I'm very sick.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

But, my lump! My precious lump!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

He rebooted me!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I'm on... Mexican... Raddioo-ee-oo-eee-oh!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeew.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *hugs*

[catarzyna.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help myself. ;-)

I can't stop thinking of two things, for which I apologize profusely:

[anidada.livejournal.com]

"It's lump, it's lump, it's lump, it's in your head..."

also:

Great crumbling mouthstones, Batman!

Re: I can't stop thinking of two things, for which I apologize profusely:

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ow. :(

Re: I can't stop thinking of two things, for which I apologize profusely:

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

I was thinking along the lines of "lovely lady manly lumps"...

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Honestly, if it were me, I'd be tempted to ask for a referral elsewhere in the hope of getting someone who could actually figure out what the problem was a little more conclusively. But at least he removed the lump and things seem to be getting better.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

CTHULHU!

::B::

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*nods* I was not terribly impressed. But then, I went in with a really weird story...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

You called?

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Re: I can't stop thinking of two things, for which I apologize profusely:

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly! n_n

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I meant more as a tracking device :)