It was a beautiful morning! Looking forward for a great daily activities even during pandemic lockdown. Brushed my teeth and suddenly spitted out a chunk of hard calcium debris. Confused probably it was egg shell or rock bead rice from last night dinner hidden between tooth overnight only to be shocked when i realized my biggest deepest wisdom tooth's crown cracked. Going calmly to the dental clinic thinking it can be easily patched up
with a single filling ended up facing a reality of horrifying major surgery to remove the tooth and some bone jaw scrapping....scary words for me even being born into siblings of doctor, nurse and medics. Looking at X-ray results the dentist says it was a zero hope to save the wisdom tooth neither 'root canal' nor 'crowning' could help....Sheeshhh! man look at those dark caves goes right into my jaw bone!. Staring blankly on those X-ray sheet it started reminds me those jokes about old people did come true!...i'm staring at an old man's teeth with previous old patches and crowning. Minutes of eye to eye 'mental battle' between the dentist and me trying to negotiates how to save it but at the end my logic thinking trumps; its time to bid fare well to the old chunky size 'calcium deposit'. 1 hour of sitting on the chair of terror and listening conversation between staff saying some chilling un-motivational words; 'Oh! finally we reached the bone!'...although i shut my eyes pretending i'm with someone warm and huggy but the ear doesn't have 'audio mute' option. Finally its done...."Here's your tooth sir"..."Arrrgghhhh!!! disgusting!!", i almost flipped the chair. So i went home with a thin wallet, bags of pills, pain killers and a bit feeling void between my jaw. Today i learned something that hit me hard; "You can't buy youth and health...aging is irreversible no matter how wealthy you are". I could have choose the second choice by doing root canal and crowning but at the end of the day the tooth will decay somehow and need to be pulled in the future. Although felt sad but i did the right thing to prevent future out comes...anyway i still have some tooth left. Less pain and burden means able to enjoy quality life! At my 40's...man i have to live like they're no tomorrow. Googled around online, calling to my friends and my dad its seems everyone losing it too...stuff is norm even you try so hard to eat healthy and care well into aging life. Well...welcome to life!