{"id":1156,"date":"2009-07-07T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2009-07-07T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:23:03","slug":"not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"not yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

My back started hurting today around 3pm.\u00a0 Just sort of a random pain in the mid…back… area of the back.\u00a0 I was perplexed until I was reminded that I helped Cindy move on Sunday.\u00a0 Why is my body turning into an old man’s body?\u00a0 About two months ago I noticed that I did something to my left arm.\u00a0 There are a few exercises (like bicep curls) I can’t do at all because one muscle (or tendon or something) in there hurts.\u00a0 It isn’t healing so I’m not sure what to do.\u00a0 Cindy says I might just be stuck with it forever.\u00a0 Now my back hurts after lifting stuff.\u00a0 I hope that <\/em>doesn’t hurt forever.<\/p>\n

I spent most of my childhood dealing with various nefarious illnesses that didn’t seem to bother many of the other kids.\u00a0 I couldn’t go outdoors without sneezing and\/or wheezing.\u00a0 I couldn’t roll in the grass (by the way, how come nobody in California ever rolled down the hill as a kid?) without getting hives.\u00a0 I couldn’t eat certain foods.\u00a0 Of course I still went and did everything my friends were up to anyway (except eat peanuts), but by my early twenties it seemed I’d escaped most of those problems.\u00a0 I didn’t need my inhaler anymore except in extreme cases of overexertion coupled with exposure to dust\/pollen\/etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And yet, even older problems came roaring back.\u00a0 For at least five years now I’ve been battling a severe (depending on your method of ranking) case of eczema on my right hand, and ONLY on my right hand.\u00a0 I saw a dermatologist a few years ago who told me to “live with it.”\u00a0 At the same time I trained my lungs to not wheeze even when faced with two hours of racquetball (and no inhaler beforehand).<\/p>\n

I didn’t get my first cavity (and a small one\u00a0 at that) until I was out of college.\u00a0 I underwent orthodontic treatment when I was 25 and religiously brushed before, during and after.\u00a0 Recently I noticed that I have some bone starting to peek out above one of my upper canines.\u00a0 I saw the periodontist last Wednesday and discovered that my gums are receding.\u00a0 Not from periodontal disease, no, that would be treated by a simple appliance that I’d wear at night with medication.\u00a0 We manufacture them here, so it wouldn’t cost me (I don’t have dental coverage) that much. No, instead I need actual surgery.\u00a0 $2,300 periodontal surgery.\u00a0 How did this happen?\u00a0 Apparently I clench my teeth when asleep.\u00a0 The first thing the periodontist said when he looked in my mouth was “who do you want to kill?”\u00a0 I know I stress myself out too much, but that stung.\u00a0 Of course the next thing he did was grab one of his staff to show them how “amazingly straight” my teeth were.\u00a0 I guess the year of braces was good for something.\u00a0 “Do girls compliment you on your teeth?”\u00a0 he asked.\u00a0 Unfortunately the only thing close to that I’ve ever heard is “I wouldn’t date you if you had ugly teeth.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, the point is this:\u00a0 sometimes I feel as if I’m being punished for trying to keep my body in shape.\u00a0\u00a0 I found out a few weeks ago that the way I’d always done my ab exercises could lead to back problems (hopefully this isn’t why my back is hurting already).\u00a0 I also found out that receding gums are also often caused in young adults by past orthodontic work.\u00a0 Perhaps “caused” isn’t the right word, “correlated” is probably more appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My back started hurting today around 3pm.\u00a0 Just sort of a random pain in the mid…back… area of the back.\u00a0 I was perplexed until I was reminded that I helped Cindy move on Sunday.\u00a0 Why is my body turning into an old man’s body?\u00a0 About two months ago I noticed that I did something to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}