![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I have nothing to post about
Mar. 8th, 2023 09:45 pmToday was a nice and boring day. I'd had trouble sleeping during the night so ended up resorting to medical aid. It feels naughty to mix a prescription muscle relaxer with a dose of CBD but my regular doc said she didn't know much about it but assumed it was okay. I wasn't going to push about it and risk being told to not use the CBD. Which I am running out of and will need to purchase more. These are capsules given to me by a friend who'd been given a selection of various ones to try. After figuring out what worked best for her these others were left over. It is going to feel surreal to have to go into a store and buy what has been illegal my whole life. But I slept well without the muscle cramping that had been plaguing me and woke up refreshed around noon. So off I went to run shopping errands.
I found a bag of oranges which smelled good - you know what I mean - and bought them, along with strawberries and two pre-made chicken Ceasar salads. I've been missing fresh produce for a while now. Our commissary stocks fruit and such but it is rarely good. It used to be tip-top but something has changed. The last nectarines and plums I bought were firm and healthy looking on the outside and bruised and actually transparently brown on the inside. Ugh. So today's haul has been an uplifting one. I've eaten two oranges already.
I talked my husband into going in for an exam to get new dentures (top & bottom) and he did. This is shocking. Doubly-shocking is that he agreed that the replacement ones will be the type with inserts in the jaw to anchor the dentures. It is going to involve surgery, and about a six-month recovery while the bones of his jaws heal around the inserts but he'll have temporary plates during that time and for the first time in probably ten years, he'll have lower teeth. He's still torn about the idea as he thinks it might be a waste of money. The expense is coming out of our own pockets. I think we might get as much as one third the cost back from our dental insurance, but there is no guarantee about that. We have to pay and file with them afterwards. My spouse tells me that those in his office who have lower dentures rarely wear them because they are "a hassle" but none of the folks he talked to have the ones that click into place and don't require denture goo.
I found a bag of oranges which smelled good - you know what I mean - and bought them, along with strawberries and two pre-made chicken Ceasar salads. I've been missing fresh produce for a while now. Our commissary stocks fruit and such but it is rarely good. It used to be tip-top but something has changed. The last nectarines and plums I bought were firm and healthy looking on the outside and bruised and actually transparently brown on the inside. Ugh. So today's haul has been an uplifting one. I've eaten two oranges already.
I talked my husband into going in for an exam to get new dentures (top & bottom) and he did. This is shocking. Doubly-shocking is that he agreed that the replacement ones will be the type with inserts in the jaw to anchor the dentures. It is going to involve surgery, and about a six-month recovery while the bones of his jaws heal around the inserts but he'll have temporary plates during that time and for the first time in probably ten years, he'll have lower teeth. He's still torn about the idea as he thinks it might be a waste of money. The expense is coming out of our own pockets. I think we might get as much as one third the cost back from our dental insurance, but there is no guarantee about that. We have to pay and file with them afterwards. My spouse tells me that those in his office who have lower dentures rarely wear them because they are "a hassle" but none of the folks he talked to have the ones that click into place and don't require denture goo.
