Poorly Teeth

I had to be up early this morning and couldn't walk as I had planned because I had to go to Peyia to Perfect Smile and see a specialist Periodontist because I have had badly bleeding gums which is generally a sign of some more serious underlying problem.   Deep joy!  I am a bit cross with myself because I had had experienced bleeding at various times in the past and just ignored it.  Anyway I had a lovely morning being poked and prodded in the gums  -  I had looked up prior to my visit what was going to happen and found...

At a dental visit, a dentist or dental hygienist will: Examine your gums and note any signs of inflammation. Use a tiny ruler called a “probe” to check for and measure any pockets around the teeth. In a healthy mouth, the depth of these pockets is usually between 1 and 3 millimeters.

Sadly my pockets were deeper than that so I am going to have to return for some serious deep cleaning under anesthaetic and a course of antibiotics and mouth washes.  Fortunately the specialist Dr Fedias was a really nice guy with a great sense of humour and patience.  I have to have some blood tests before my two day clean which is at the end of July.

Anyway the upshot of all this is that I felt a bit off for the remainder of the day as, since I had my jaw reconstruction about 30 years ago, I find keeping my mouth open for extended periods of time quite painful and it leaves me with a headache.  I had to warn Dr F that I might just bite his fingers by mistake and he was quite prepared for that - in fact he was fascinated by my genioplasty and cutting and reshaping of my lower jaw bone.

I rallied mid afternoon - John had had some peace and quiet watching the Formula 1 qualifiers and the Cricket Test and we settled down to our evening meal of pork chop with honey mustard sauce, mixed salad and fancy sauteed potatoes cooked on a skewer which was a practice for what we are cooking for Mum tomorrow.  She has had potatoes like this at Muse and likes them so we were willing to give it a go.

We had a text from Das late afternoon to tell us he was playing down at the Gravity Road Diner and would appreciate our support in hearing him play - we hadn't planned on it but decided that we could and should as he is trying to make a name for himself and it would give us an opportunity to see Belinda as she was working and we haven't seen her for months.  We checked if Nicky and Mark fancied it and they decided they should support him too so we went down for an hour.

It was almost like being on holiday sat on a beautiful evening listening to some music having a chat and watching the sun go down and all this within Droushia.  We really are lucky that we have a great variety of different venues all within a stones throw.

We really enjoyed the time we spent there - I was drives - and they stock non-alcoholic beer so that was good.  I have to say it is amazing what Stephen and Tracey have achieved with the old Karithea taverna - they sensibly opted to make it into something unique in the Diner so they are not in competition with the majority of the local eateries.

From there you get a stunning sunset and with that the guarantee that tomorrow will be fine, dry and hot.  Hopefully not windy so we can sit outside and eat with Mum.