Teresa and I took a hike on a slightly warmer day this week. It was great to get out and hike.
I have not been vlogging this year. Early in the year it was mostly because of the large number of people that were not working and were hiking on the trails. I use my drone a lot for the video I use in vlogs, and so I didn’t want to fly it around all the people.
The second reason was the crown on one of my front teeth looked so bad, and it was getting worse by the day .. or so it seemed.
Let me walk this back a bit. A couple years ago I developed a massive infection. It was all in the gum areas of this crown / tooth. I went to a couple dentist and one of them was finally able to do something about the infection. Sadly, the infection destroyed a lot of the bone structure. The result was that the crown was slowly dropping off the stub of a tooth that it was covering. It looks so bad. I was actually very self-conscious about it and it got to a point where I didn’t like to be on a vlog. I tried so hard to avoid smiling.
Back to today. This week the crown was removed and the tooth pulled. The long term goal is to replace the crown with an implant. For now, they gave me a ‘flipper’. That is kind of like dentures for one tooth. It’s not perfect, but it feels so good to be able to smile without feeling so darn self-conscious about my tooth.
What does this have to do with this photo? I am starting to fly my drone again, and I am feeling the itch to get the vlog up and going. Stay tuned.
~ Rick
