Have you ever bitten your tongue really, really hard? I mean, just chomped down on it with the sharpest teeth in your mouth? That's what happened to me today. I was cautiously eating a quesadilla, which Job brought home for me last night after he attended a job fair. There were a few tomatoes in the quesadilla, which sort of disturbed me, but I decided I was okay with it and kept on chewing.
Then, for some reason I started thinking about onions and how horrible they were, and I started gagging on my food. Now, as of late I've been extremely sensitive to onions (I'm pretty sure it has something to do with being pregnant)... I won't go into the gorey details. Let's just say that the thought of them starts to make me physically gag (or worse...!). Well, I started gagging on my quesadilla. But while I was gagging, my brain did not forget that there was food in my mouth. Therefore, my teeth were still going in the automated chewing formation. So, when my gagging induced my tongue to flail about wildly, my canines caught hold of the right side of my tongue and literally pierced through it.
Have you seen my canines? It's not that I look like a vampire, but my overbite has successfully kept my upper canines from aligning with my lower canines, which has prevented them from grinding together and wearing down to a nice even edge. So here I have these lovely sharp, ferocious teeth, and a huge swollen welt on the side of my tongue to show for it.
I tried eating food again at dinner, but it hurt my tongue too much to chew. Tater tots and a boca burger sounded so good, too! *argg* *sigh* I'm hungry.
I'm wondering if it would be wrong to anoint my tongue with St. John's oil? Or maybe there's a canon against that. If you know, please tell me. Maybe I'm just being a big baby, though.
There's also a huge, cyst-like zit on the very nape of my neck, just at my hairline. It's the painful kind that can't be squeezed (plus it's in a very inconvenient location). But I feel it there each time I turn or move my neck... Sick.
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I love that you ended this with "...sick", it carried all the appropriate feelings. About the onions...the nausea/gagging is the worst thing about pregnancy for me. Give me the giant belly, swollen ankles, and side-sleeping anyday! Hopefully the aversions and gagging will go away for you...it has dissipated for me at about 4 months. Our priest's wife told me that she couldn't even go down the tuna aisle at the store when she was pregnant!
This is one of your most "queasy" blogs- you've succeeded in making me feel nauseous!! ( And I'm way past baby-making years)
Sorry about the tongue et al. Next time you eat, don't THINK about anything!!!
Loveya- mom
Laura,
I'm afraid I have no mylanta... but that's okay because (you're right) tongue wounds do heal rather quickly. It still looks gross and feels bumpy, but it isn't sore anymore :)
The zit is shrinking too, thanks to some zit cream I have (which might have peroxide in it, I'm not sure).
Sara,
Yes, sick indeed! Nausea I can certainly do without. *sigh* I think my nausea might extend a little past my first trimester too, being that I had... um... an "episode" with my breakfast today (and I'm 12 weeks). Although I guess I technically have 2 more weeks of my first trimester... we'll see.
Momma,
Sorry to make you nauseous!!!
love you!
ok, that sounds very painful. i hope you start to feel better soon (although i don't think you will ever get over your aversion to onions).
Yeouch. I'm so sorry.
I also remember well "food confusion" while pregnant. Ugh.
The best remedy for a giant zit is this: take a regular aspirin; crush it into powder; mix a drop of water on it only enough to make a paste; apply the paste to the zit with a bandaid (or not if in hairline). Let it sit for 20 or so minutes. Voila! Shrunken zit with no redness. Works every time.
Though it is with those painful ones I enlist the aide of my husband or daughter to sterilize a pin and pierce the center of it to release the pressure. Then I do the aspirin thing and it's usually gone by the next morning.
Sorry about the onion/tongue thing. My daughter bit her tongue in half (literally). Totally gross. Was healed in a couple days. She still has a scar and a slight linear bump though.
Sweet and sour chicken did me in when I was preggers. Still can't stand the smell or to eat it!
Oh, man. I couldn't even hear about garlic and onions when I was pregnant with my first. I liked to listen to the radio, but there was one commercial about a breath freshener (Breath Assure? something like that) that mentioned "garlic and onions" and it would make me sick just to hear the words! My poor husband didn't have anything to eat, because I could not cook. He tried to cook once, and I got so sick from the smells, I put fans everywhere and went to the furthest reaches of the house to try to escape, to no avail. Finally, he would just leave to go buy something to eat, but it made me sick to hear about that. Even if he just said "I'm going out" it would make me sick because I knew he was going out to get food!
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