PAT LYNCH

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Mouth guard

I was recently given a mouth guard. A custom one made for my teeth. MY teeth. I wasn’t excited about it but I was told it’ll help retrain my muscles from telling my teeth to grind, on the left side specifically. I’ve rarely spent an entire night with it in. Either I take it out halfway through the night, or it falls out. Or, in this case, I think I swallowed it.

Right, I thought the same thing. There’s no way, i’d choke on it, right? Well, not the case when you’re sleeping. When you’re not awake, your gag reflexes don’t kick in. So there’s that. Also, I did lose it in bed one night recently and I found it in bed. But this more recent time, I ripped the bed apart, looked around the entire room and it’s nowhere to be found. Apparently, research, it’s not out of the ordinary

I strongly believe I’ve swallowed it.