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Cold Sore Report Day 8. This week I attended PTA meeting and a church social, taught Sunday School and hosted an extended family dinner, all with a huge unsightly (and painful!) lesion. Bravery. I managed to avoid commenting on it at those venues, so I am now taking out that pent up desire on my blog readers. The Mayo Clinic claims these last 7-10 days. From the looks of things today, this one may take longer than 10 to heal.
Fun fact: People with cold sores do not need to throw away their lip balm or lipstick. According to the Lawrence Gibson of the Mayo Clinic, after having just one episode of cold sores, the virus “lies dormant in the nerve cells in your skin.” The bad news is, once you get the virus, you have it for the rest of your life. The good news is, since you are already infected, “you can’t reinfect yourself with your own lipstick or lip balm.” Just don’t share with anyone else!
Canker Sore: In other news, I recently took Duncan for an emergency visit to the dentist. He had a white patch on his gumline that was really hurting. I felt foolish for the visit when they identified the patch as a canker sore. Apparently, if a white patch is close to the teeth it could be an abcessed tooth (which would be a big deal), but if it is closer to the top of the gum it is a canker sore. Canker sores are not a big deal, but they feel like a big deal! I did not know that you could get canker sores on the gum area, I thought they were always limited to the cheek or tongue. Nope. Anyway, Zilactin and a little sympathetic attention from the hygienist appeared to cure Duncan of everything that ailed him. He hasn’t complained about the sore since.
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Ouch! It can be SO hard not to mention something like that. I don’t know if I’ve ever achieved that stiff of an upper lip.
I sent a couple messages to you on Fb about the silk flower clips. (Just don’t buy up all the good colors before I know which ones I’ll need for my Super Saturday, please!) (In fact, come to think of it, since they come several to a stem you can probably have extras from me if you can wait.)
.-= Zina´s last blog ..It really is a small world after all =-.