minor dental update

[redbird]

adrian just asked how long I'm supposed to keep eating soft food, so I grabbed the sheet of post-extraction care instructions the dentist's office gave me. It turns out that that part of the instructions is only for the day or so after the extraction, so I can go back to eating what I feel like.

The relevant things I should do for "several days" are salt-water rinses, and not drinking with a straw. I'm probably going to call the dental office on Monday with a question or two about how it's healing, and how careful I need to be about brushing and flossing, but we don't have to keep eating soup on hot days. I like soup, but it's less tempting on days when I need air conditioning.

Comments

[otter]

Can you eat gazpacho? I've not had it, but a cool soup seems suitable.

[adrian_turtle]

Gazpacho is a lot of messy work in exchange for a delightful appetizer. (At least as made in our kitchen.) All our main-course soup recipes are hot.

[joseph_teller]

I'm weird and like some kinds of soup year round... especially on rainy grey days when we have them.

Even in hot weather I won't turn down the idea of Chinese Hot & Sour Soup or a breakfast of Egg Drop...

[redbird]

I like some kinds of soup year-round, definitely, but am less likely to want it as the main course on hot days, multiple days in a row. (In 2021, when I had what was probably a breakthrough case of COVID, with a bad sore throat, I was living almost entirely on soup and yogurt: I discovered that the large wonton soup from the closest Chinese restaurant was a large bowl of broth with wontons and mixed Chinese vegetables. (Their chicken wonton soup replaced some of the vegetables, and some of the broth, with chicken meat, and wasn't as good.)

[minoanmiss]

A funny fact: Jamaicans eat lots of hot soup in hot weather. It's thought to promote sweating and thus cooling off but as a child it just made me overheated.