Beautiful Day For A Root Canal

I envy your views, though I finally got to commute along our local Rivertrail today again, which was a nice change of pace from the awful rutted streets. Is Betty treating you well?

Glad to hear you’re all taken care of, and chipped teeth and a root canal means you’ll have a great story.

I tried to ride once after a root canal. Took a good twenty miles or more before I realized the road vibrations were killing me! I went home and got on the vicadin for a week. It was a really bad week. I hope your recovery is better than mine was.

Beautiful pictures! Sorry you had to have the root canal after all — was really hoping you would be able to avoid it. Of course, now that you have no nerves there, you can fall as much as you want, right?

That sort of accident is quite prevalent in motorcycling. Maybe we need to switch to full face helmets for bicyclists, for improved safety? After all, if a cheap helmet can safe you from a single root canal, its worth it, right? ($$$ costs alone, never mind pain and suffering.)

Anyway, sorry about your fall, I have had root canals that were more hideous/painful/complicated than usual, and no way I wanted to ride a bike home from that, you are obviously made from sterner stuff than I.

I did, however, ride my motorcycle home from my vasectomy. Same sort of thing, I had no other means of transport at the time, I picked up the kids at daycare on my motorcycle, all the time and went home. Simple and not all that painful.

Ouch! I’m a big wimp when it comes to that kind of pain.

The riding while in pain, reminds me of the time(a long time ago!), when I woke up at my friends house after a night of partying, with an extreme hangover. I had a strong urge to puke, but I would always go to great extreme to avoid that. I was a good 8 miles from home and wondering how I would be able to bike all that way without throwing up. The idea came to me that I should try and practice that Zen Buddhist stuff I’d been reading about “dropping everything and just being in the moment”. Well, it worked. Everytime the nausea started to well up, I would jump into to moment. The nausea would diminish. I realized that the nausea was a cumlative sensation and that by dropping in to moment, I was breaking that wave. In each moment, nausea wasn’t so bad.

Bummer. Sorry about the pain (and the expense), but do love that you rode to the dentist.

Oh man, I’ve been there. I rode home after having a tooth extracted last year (still have the gap but no one can see it). What are you going to do? Taking the bus with all the schlubs isn’t going to make your tooth hurt less!