You Don't Say?

I have learned first hand that eating healthy is hazardous to my health! It doesn't matter that my version of eating healthy consists of whole grain breads instead of white bread, dropped the creamer from my coffee regimen, and only choose to eat the darkest chocolate because I read that it was good for my heart. - oh, and also to keep my ticker ticking...red wine. So, I'm on the right track!

A couple of nights ago I sat down to eat a little hard, multi-grain roll with spinach (vegetable), muenster cheese (dairy) and two thin slices of fresh deli Turkey (protein) - the kettle chips were only there for crunch and balance, I swear!. So after the first bite I felt something 'crunchy' that should have been there. No....not a bug or anything gross...just my tooth!

Seriously??

The front of my front tooth just chipped off...how odd was that? At first I didn't realize what had happened until my bottom lip felt - odd - against my teeth. Further inspection left me stunned. WTH happened? That tooth had always had a tiny discoloration since I was little (say, may 6-8'ish). My older brother told me I got a piece of hominy corn seed stuck in there and I swear, I believed him for years. Still, I always wondered why it was there.

So I went to the dentist this morning and after close examination he went on to explain that sometimes fillings just come off. WHHHHAAAAT? Excuse me Mr. Dr. Dental guy who went to Dentistry school and all that....you are horribly mistaken. I didn't have a filling there! My tooth just broke off. He looked at me and said....Mrs. Smarty-pants Patient with a broken tooth in your mouth...if you look at your x-rays, you can clearly see that that tooth had been broken and filled. And...the tooth next to it too.....so there! The teeth do not tell lies! Check Mate!! Now open wide!

As he goes to work fixing my tooth, in between the spackling going on in my mouth and watching a house moving show on TV,  I lay there searching through my memory bank of having broken my tooth and had it repaired. I came up with nothing! How can that happen about 40 years ago and I have no memory recall of such a significant event? What about the hominy corn seed? Was that just a lie too? If that was a lie...I'm sure that the water tanks really aren't where 'they' keep grits!

I left the dentist with a 'new' front panel. One that I hope lasts at least 40 years like the last one. It's one of those moments when I wanted to call my Mother and have her tell me the truth.

Isn't that the craziest thing you have heard all day??? It just goes to proves that kids don't often remember everything, and that no matter how old you are - you can still be surprised by your childhood.

Peace!