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TL;DR: Food is still hard to eat, still get tired, Benzocaine is your friend, ice cream is awesome.

Hey all, I'm glad these have been helpful, I appreciate the feedback, questions and suggestions, you all have been awesome!

First, waking up without my teeth in was an interesting experience. It was kinda nice, but I had a headache right off the bat, as well as mouth pain slowly set in. My husband likes to cuddle in the morning but when he goes to kiss me on the lips, it kinda hurts. It wasn't too bad, but it still hurt. I realize my face has pretty much swollen up again. I pop a hydro and got up to try and get my teeth in. I also take some tension headache meds because the headache isn't bad enough to be a migraine but I'm sure the change in pressure on my jaws is a culprit. TMJD sucks.

I went and did a salt water swish to start the day off with. I know a lot of people don't like these, but I really don't mind the taste. When I'm sick I'll make myself some "broth" from bullion cubes and those suckers are pretty salty, but I like them. I go and get my dentures out of the case where I had left them soaking in the cleaner. My bottoms went in okay but putting in the tops, I had a ton of pain. A sore had formed on the front of my gums, right side, that when I tried to put my tops in, I almost can't because it hurt too much. Stinging pain. I finally remembered I have some generic Orajel (20% Benzocaine) that I kind of slathered on it. It didn't numb it quite enough but it was enough I could force them on and technically "suck them" into place. Once they were there, I was okay. We considered calling the after hours number for Aspen about the sores that are forming, but I decided against it. I can make it through the weekend and will call them Monday morning.

Normal breakfast on our weekends are scrambled eggs and bagels, but I'm unsure about bagels. However, I decided to try scrambled eggs, at least, as well as some more yogurt. The scrambled eggs were tough to eat. I mostly squished them against my top palate with my tongue and swallowed them. I tried to make some chewing motions but it was hard to tell if I was macerating anything or not. Of course, the yogurt was easier to get down.

I have to be honest here, I don't remember a chunk of the day, so this one may be shorter. I went to play on the computer but only made it through an hour before I was really tired again, then took another nap for a few hours. After reading some other experiences, that seems to be the norm, being tired throughout the day. I also have fibromyalgia which I feel like this is triggering some. I haven't had full fibro fallout but it's close.

I pretty much slept through lunch time, got back on the computer around 5 or 6, and I'm starting to hurt a lot again. I go look at myself in the mirror and notice my face is swelling up again. I go grab an ice pack and try to hold it to my face for a bit, pop an ibuprofen to see if that'll help.

7pm rolls around and I'm getting hungry, my face is feeling a little bit better. I go fix some more mashed potatoes but kind of wish I had something more to eat, but nothing really sounds good. My stomach has been rolling all day, lots of trips to the bathroom probably due to my diet and I have heartburn all day long. I take a Rantidine and it seems to help.

I'm up until about midnight and I'm still hungry. I grab some ice cream from the freezer that I bought before this - butter pecan - and it's so tasty and the coldness actually feels really good in my mouth. And being able to eat something cold without the sensitivity triggering is absolutely amazing. I can't really eat the small pecan chunks, so I find myself just spitting out the pecan pieces into the trash.

I start my bedtime ritual again, take out the dentures, put them in the cleaner mix, do the saltwater swish. This time I also swished with hydrogen peroxide, since that's what I normally used in the past to help take care of kanker sores. It's a relief having them out again but I realize I have four sores on my gums now, all on the front. I am really not looking forward to putting my dentures back in in the morning, knowing how much that one sore hurt this morning. I'm also still hungry but I make myself ignore it to go to bed. I did that a lot already so it's nothing new for me. I tend to be lazy when it comes to making food for myself.

Ponderings from the day:I feel like I'm talking better than I thought I would, but when I start hurting (hydro wears off), it gets harder to enunciate again. And it's especially hard when I take them out all together. My husband was playing D&D over Roll20 and Discord, and I heard him say something about "And I'll help too!" and, without my teeth in, I try to shout at him "And my axe!" but I can't enunciate the words enough for him to understand and he just thinks I've hurt myself again (I am a huge klutz). He finally understands what I'm saying but I just kinda feel stupid because I can't get the words out right, but I know there's nothing I can do about it except practice.