06.04.08
Tess - the Hamster
I haven’t been smiling for three days now. Starts to get boring. I got all my four wisdom teeth removed on monday, they put me to sleep, took only half an hour, but the longer to recover. In fact it doesn’t hurt too much as long as I keep still. This morning I was dreaming something and managed to hit me with the hand on the side of the face where I’m swollen. Do I need to tell that it hurt? A lot. I have ice on most of the time too keep it from getting swollen, I would have been much worse otherwise, helps also for the ache.
My favorite hobby at the moment is to sit and watch anthony when he makes a hole in the garden. It’s not a grave, it will be filled with tomatoe plants. They can be seen on the picture below, four different kinds waiting to be planted. The orange flowers, tagetes, are to be planted in between, apparently they give a smell that will scare away insects.
All those pills I’m eating makes me a bit dizzy, yesterday I slept most of the day, in the sofa and then in the hammock under the avocado tree. Vincent have lent me the last harry potter book, it keeps me company but I can only read when feeling a bit better (goes up and down all the time) because it’s in french and when it hurts or I’m tired I don’t understand a thing.
I just managed to open the mouth enough to see that they put some points in there. The doctor didn’t tell me after the operation how it had been, and I wasn’t able to ask… When I met her earlier she had told that it was one of the roots that went down in a nerve canal and when taking it out I would risk to loose sensibility in my lower lip. At least that didn’t happen, I have still all feeling left. I’m in a good hope that I will be able to smile again in some days.
Do you know what ‘negerbollar’ is? It’s swedish cookies, and translated it is ‘nigger balls’. I guess they exist in other places as well, but then named ‘chocolate balls’. Anyways, AnnSofie and Oscar brought us homemade negerbollar last saturday and I was so happy, I really missed them! But I forgot to take them out and serve after the dinner and now Anthony is eating them with good appetite. I’m happy that he likes them. I get plenty of saliva in my mouth when I see him eat, so I tried as well. I took tiny pieces of a ball, to make tiny negerbollar, and then chew with my tongue. Not easy, but well worth the effort.
This morning I got strawberry milkshake for breakfast. Delicious. For lunch and dinner I’m having soup, a very tasty soup made of lots of different vegetables, well mixed. And of course I’m eating it with a straw. I’m looking so stupid!
Frustrated. When reading harry potter I’m realizing that things happened that I don’t recognize, and after some discussion with Vincent I realize that I haven’t read book 6. Pah.
Taking pictures doesn’t hurt. Karin, have you seen how beautiful the Lobelia is this year compared to last year!?