Update: Buying the Farm

The last month or two have brought a lot of changes for the Adventure family. Did you miss us? Probably not, but in case you did, here’s a little update.

We Bought the Farm!

In the past two months we were blessed to sell our house and purchase a small farm. Our family of six had outgrown our 3-bedroom home and small backyard and we were very thankful to find an older home with more space to grow.

Mrs. Adventure has started work on the gardening, pruning the unmaintained fruit trees and planting raspberry canes. We’d like to be as self-sufficient as possible, so a big garden is being planned.

My job, when recovery permits, will be to finish a bedroom for one of the kids, planning the pens for chicken and pigs and then fencing in the aforementioned gardens.

Health

Recovery? A little over a month ago I was eating some quinoa when I felt a crunch, followed by intense pain. It appeared that I had bitten down on a rock. Unbeknownst to me, the rock had broken a root on my molar (one that had recently been crowned).

Thinking the pain was just stress due to other things (see below) I ignored it until my next check up. I explained the pain, the dentist took a photo. She found the “root” of the matter (the broken root) and noted that there was an infection.

Two days later I had surgery where she removed the mola along with a wisdom tooth and festering cyst that had formed underneath it. After much tutting from the dentist I was informed that the law could have easily broken if I hadn’t shown up when I did. After scraping out the inside of my jaw, a bone graft was put in and I was stitched up. I was warned of a risk of nerve damage, given a prescription and sent on my way with a washing list of “dos and do nots”.

I’ve now been given warning to eat soft foods for 6 weeks, followed by 3 months of no physical activity like wrestling with the kids (or I risk breaking the jaw completely). All told it will take a whole year for the bone to heal.

It’s fantastic to live at a time when these things can be treated so readily. Thanks Doc!

Life Pro Tip: never ignore dental pain.

Let the Adventure Begin

If you’d like to hear more about these domestic adventures (and less dental adventures) then please let us know. If you have suggestions, we’d love to hear them.