I have been using an electric toothbrush since October 2021. I think it was not even a year after I started using it that the motor started to wear out:
By the time that happened, I could no longer use my manual toothbrush to brush my teeth. So, my brother bought me a new toothbrush! Now, I have figured out that I just glide my hand along my teeth, so the toothbrush stays lit up ‘Green’ the entire time.
I feel that I know how to brush my teeth now! But, there is a new development. Because your ears, your nose, and your throat, are all connected, I usually only get my top teeth brushed before I have to, either, blow my nose, or itch my ears!
I must tell you that blowing your nose with your top teeth, having just been brushed, but not yet fully rinsed off and flossed feels extremely weird! When I grab a Q-tip to address my itchy ears, that’s not comfortable either with toothpaste film in my mouth and before I have even flossed my teeth!
This all started to happen this year and I’m still trying to figure out what to do because I am not the one putting toothpaste on my toothbrush anymore. I don’t have that much control of my hands. So, it is sort of a complicated dance for my Mom to put toothpaste on my toothbrush, while I am either blowing my nose or using a Q-tip in my ears and she just waits.
We had the complicated dance this afternoon and I’m sure we will again this evening because we spoke to the woman who fit me for my wheelchair, and she told me that as the disease progresses, I become more sensitive to every stimulation!
Dave, has already come to my house, and he has a different seat for my new wheelchair. It’s a combination of foam and padding. I’m still working on that one in terms of a new wheelchair. There is so much red tape!!! it’s all a bit frustrating!!!