Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!

Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth. Kinda
like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two teeth....
and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best part ...besides
I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.

I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't wait
for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed enough to eat
turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next weekend.

I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never again
being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd have let it go,
as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my upper mouth and face
missing and not be able to eat good food. It really sucks when you can't
enjoy one of the finest pleasures in life. Life almost isn't worth living.
From now on, I plan to eat nothing but really good food that I take as much
time and care preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk. Oh!
....I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.

I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
one.

nb ...woo-hoo!

notbob wrote:
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to
> eating baby food or the next closest thing, pureed everything.
> Almost burned up my stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a
> straw, couldn't eat it. Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the
> health care system, doctors, dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it
> resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth.
> Kinda like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two
> teeth.... and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best
> part ...besides I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can
> eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't
> wait for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed
> enough to eat turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next
> weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never
> again being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd
> have let it go, as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my
> upper mouth and face missing and not be able to eat good food. It
> really sucks when you can't enjoy one of the finest pleasures in
> life. Life almost isn't worth living. From now on, I plan to eat
> nothing but really good food that I take as much time and care
> preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk.
> Oh! ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a
> good one.
>
> nb ...woo-hoo!

*Excellent* news, that's great. Too bad you had a scare, but good
thing that's all it was.

nancy

"notbob" > wrote in message
...
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating
> baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!

Great news!

On Tue 25 Nov 2008 05:14:52p, notbob told us...

> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating
> baby food or the next closest thing, pureed everything.

nb, I’m really glad that it wasn’t cancer and that it was something with a
solution. I can just imagine how scared you were. I’ve had a couple of
serous health scares that turned out to be nothing serious, but I was scared
to death at the time.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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notbob wrote:
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth. Kinda
> like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two teeth....
> and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best part ...besides
> I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't wait
> for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed enough to eat
> turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never again
> being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd have let it go,
> as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my upper mouth and face
> missing and not be able to eat good food. It really sucks when you can't
> enjoy one of the finest pleasures in life. Life almost isn't worth living.
> From now on, I plan to eat nothing but really good food that I take as much
> time and care preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk. Oh!
> ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
> one.
>
> nb ...woo-hoo!

Glad you did not have oral cancer. It is not fun. The cure is worse than
the disease.



--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

notbob wrote:


> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
> one.


Thanks. You got through this just in time!

Best regards . . .

notbob wrote:
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!

This is wonderful news, I am so happy for you! You certainly have
something to be thankful for this year.

Becca

notbob wrote:

> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to
> eating baby food or the next closest thing, pureed everything.
> Almost burned up my stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a
> straw, couldn't eat it. Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the
> health care system, doctors, dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it
> resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth.
> Kinda like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two
> teeth.... and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best
> part ...besides I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can
> eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't
> wait for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed
> enough to eat turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next
> weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never
> again being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd
> have let it go, as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my
> upper mouth and face missing and not be able to eat good food. It
> really sucks when you can't enjoy one of the finest pleasures in
> life. Life almost isn't worth living. From now on, I plan to eat
> nothing but really good food that I take as much time and care
> preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk.
> Oh! ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a
> good one.
>
> nb ...woo-hoo!

Hurrah!

--
Dan Goodman
..sig under reconstruction

notbob wrote:
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!

That's a Very Good Thing, eh? I'm happy for you.

Happy Thanksgiving--you have a lot to be thankful for.

gloria p

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:14:52 GMT, notbob > wrote:

>The best part ...besides
>I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.

OK, thanks for the update. Now I know why you were so gol durned
cranky lately.

Glad all is well with you now!


--
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that
interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

Mae West

notbob wrote:
> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth. Kinda
> like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two teeth....
> and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best part ...besides
> I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't wait
> for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed enough to eat
> turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never again
> being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd have let it go,
> as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my upper mouth and face
> missing and not be able to eat good food. It really sucks when you can't
> enjoy one of the finest pleasures in life. Life almost isn't worth living.
> From now on, I plan to eat nothing but really good food that I take as much
> time and care preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk. Oh!
> ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
> one.
>
> nb ...woo-hoo!

Ouch! And I'm sure glad it turned out to be nothing too serious.

--
Jean B.

notbob wrote:

> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating
baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth.
Kinda
> like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two teeth....
> and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best part ...besides
> I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't wait
> for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed enough to eat
> turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never
again
> being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd have let it
go,
> as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my upper mouth and face
> missing and not be able to eat good food. It really sucks when you can't
> enjoy one of the finest pleasures in life. Life almost isn't worth
living.
> From now on, I plan to eat nothing but really good food that I take as
much
> time and care preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No
more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk. Oh!
> ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
> one.
>


This is the "feel good" story 'o the day, nb...I'm real glad everything
turned out okay...!!!

:-)


--
Best
Greg

On 2008-11-26, Gregory Morrow > wrote:

> This is the "feel good" story 'o the day, nb...I'm real glad everything
> turned out okay...!!!

Thanks for all the replies, gang. Much appreciated.

Update: I broke too soon out of the gate with those mini shredded wheats I
snuck last night and have a bit of swelling around the dig site. Gonna
hafta rein in and fall back on refried beans and oatmeal. Gotta keep my
fiber up, ya know. Still licking my chops for turkey sandwiches this
weekend.

nb

In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> Had a problem. Thought it might be mouth cancer and was down to eating baby
> food or the next closest thing, pureed everything. Almost burned up my
> stick blender. If I couldn't get it through a straw, couldn't eat it.
> Anyway, I slowly wound my way through the health care system, doctors,
> dentists, oral surgeons, etc, and got it resolved. Not cancer!! Yeah!
>
> Now, there's a nice little divet right behind my two top front teeth. Kinda
> like a microscopic doggy tried to dig under the fence ...my two teeth....
> and it feels like the grand canyon to my tongue. The best part ...besides
> I'm not gonna die a horrible death.... is that I can eat real food again.
>
> I'm still taking it easy, but I can chew soft stuff on my back molars
> without irritating what turned out to be nothing more than a extremely
> inflamed incisive papilla (that thing you always burn when you don't wait
> for your pizza to cool). Whew! Hopefully it will be healed enough to eat
> turkey this Thur. At least turkey sandwiches by next weekend.
>
> I gotta tell ya, I was kinda scared. Not so much of dying, but never again
> being able to enjoy great food. If it had been cancer, I'd have let it go,
> as I wasn't about to finish my life with half my upper mouth and face
> missing and not be able to eat good food. It really sucks when you can't
> enjoy one of the finest pleasures in life. Life almost isn't worth living.
> From now on, I plan to eat nothing but really good food that I take as much
> time and care preparing as I can and revel in the fact I'm able to. No more
> prepared junk and frozen dinners. Life is too short for eating bunk. Oh!
> ...I am so jonesing for a fresh pizza or a hot pastrami on rye.
>
> I'll be giving special thanks this Thanksgiving and I wish you all a good
> one.
>
> nb ...woo-hoo!

nb, did not know you were going thru that. After dealing with a lot of
health issues since April, I can understand somewhat. :-)

Hugs and welcome back to cuisine!
--
Peace! Om

"All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other." -- Dalai Lama

On 2008-11-26, Omelet > wrote:

> nb, did not know you were going thru that. After dealing with a lot of
> health issues since April, I can understand somewhat. :-)

Yeah, but who'd dare snivel with Kili as our role model? Toughest babe on
the block!

> Hugs and welcome back to cuisine!

Thanks. Now to go out and shoot something.

nb

"notbob" > wrote :>
> Yeah, but who'd dare snivel with Kili as our role model? Toughest babe on
> the block!
>

For real.