One of my biggest lessons I’ve learned this past week is just how easy it can be to overlook certain things. As long as everything is fine and good with us, it’s easy to overlook just how bad things can get when they actually get bad. And for that reason, we really do not know what we have when we do have it, we only come to that startling realization when there is the threat of losing it. Sadly.
Well, as far as I’m concerned, wisdom in hindsight is still wisdom, because it also means that you know better and you will most likely not make the same mistakes again. The only way a problem would arise is if, after learning all the lessons, we still make no move to be better. That’s when there would be a problem, indeed.
Last week, I made a post here about how I was growing a tooth and how I was finding it painful. At a point, it was so painful that my head felt like I was having a surgical operation on it. Everything I did hurt, opening my mouth, swallowing, turning my head to the side… no matter how I tried to manage it, it hurt like hell. And even worse, painkillers were not working.
And in the midst of this intense pain, I realized just how every little part of our body was important. When you’re healthy and not hurt in any way, it’s easy to overlook them. Until they’re not healthy. Take your pinky toe, for instance, how often do you think about it? That tiny part of your anatomy that doesn’t even get any attention except maybe when you’re taking a bath or cutting your toenails. Other than that, you basically forget it’s there.
However, once you hurt it, it suddenly becomes visible because it’s all you can think about. That’s when you find out that somehow your pinky toe connects to your knee. Because why should your entire leg be affected when only that tiny piece of your body hurts? You’ll find out that as long as one part hurts, using the whole will be very difficult.
And that’s what I learned. What do the teeth have to do with the neck? Yet, when I turned my neck the wrong way, pain exploded like a bomb in my mouth. I got severe headaches, and it caused me to have a fever. All because I was growing a tooth.
However,
@princessbusayo came to my rescue with the suggestion she commented for me, and for that, I’m extremely grateful. Taking salty water and letting it settle over the offending tooth. And that was a great help! It turns out that salty water is a good remedy for inflammation and toothaches. It also has some properties that help fight off bacteria. There’s a whole science behind it that I’m not getting into right now. All I know is that it is a good resort for temporary relief from the pain, and it helped me deal.
Just holding the salty water in my mouth, concentrating on the spot where the pain was for a few minutes before spitting the water out. Then, doing this about three times, the pain became a whole lot more bearable. And pretty soon, I noticed that it was going. And by this morning, it was gone. I had already been planning out a trip to the hospital before this remedy was suggested to me, and now I’m thinking twice about it.
I hope this is over because so far, it was only one side of my mouth that had the growth. I don’t know if the other side will also grow anytime soon. All in all though, it’s not been easy. This experience taught me a huge lesson, and I’m not taking anything for granted. Pain will always be a stark reminder of how connected we are, how one part is very important.
Maybe when we all come to accept this fact, we’ll be more appreciative of every little atom of us.
