Dr. John A. King's back molar cracked three weeks before competition. He fears anesthetic will cause bloating and weaken his muscles after months of training, so he's weighing extraction without it or just pushing through the pain instead.
Hey, I think obstacles become highlighted when you're shooting for a goal. I think sometimes we just go through life and stuff turns up and we don't worry about it or think too much about it. It's when we're really focused on something that we notice that things don't go quite our way. I mentioned about 3 weeks ago I had a problem with this jaw. Well, yesterday the tooth started to crack. So the back molar, the tooth's starting to crack in and I've got to go and see a dentist. But this is my quandary now. I'm 3 weeks out from the competition and have some sort of anesthetic is going to bloat me massively. It's going to make all my muscles go flat. All these months and months and months of hard work could very well come to naught because I don't know how long it's going to stay in the system. So some have a good effect, a bad effect. I'm not sure of the different ranges of them and what they are. But I'm hoping they can put a ring around it and just hold the tooth in place for me. If not, the choices are having it removed without anesthetic or just sucking up the pain. Sucking up the pain is probably going to be the option. The problem, the challenge with that is it's increasingly difficult to eat. I don't want to, and to train, it's a challenge, you know. It's just another thing that you've got to try and deal with. I'm very tired. All my energy, my body is depleting. All my energy is going into just keeping my head in the game, and this is just another bloody thing. It's unbelievable. But whatever. What are you going to do? Stop? Yeah, screw that.
