No More NECCOs

My grandpa ALWAYS has Necco wafers. Ainsley knows exactly where his secret box is. She gets a mini pacakage of Neccos everytime we visit my grandparents. We went for a visit on Thursday. We dropped by some photos and some homemade chocolate chip cookies for my grandpa's 83rd birthday. Each of the kids got their package of Neccos and dug right in. A minute later Ainsley came running in the kitchen making a horrible face looking for the trash can. Apparently the white ones are too minty and she had to spit hers out. Then she picked out another white one and was going to throw it away. I took it from her and popped it in my mouth. As I was chewing this wafer I noticed some really hard crunchy bits. I thought I must have gotten one that had some granulated sugar that didn't get melted down. Meanwhile it seemed that the chewed candy was sticking in a bunch on my back teeth. The granualted sugar lumps didn't seem to be disolving and my tooth in the back didn't seem to be feeling better. I started feeling like I was choking on these hard granules. I started exploring with my tongue and then realized that my 1st molar (2nd from the back) had a huge hole in it and I was chewing up bits of a filling and tooth. I ran to the bathroom and rinsed my mouth trying to rid myself of all the hard bits. I was having visions of my intestines being cut up by bits of enamel.

Luckily the tooth doesn't hurt. Although I will make an appointment with my dentist this week. I think that may be the tooth that I had my first and only root canal on last winter. They decided they didn't need to do a crown then, oh but I guess they will now!! RATS!!!

My sister had a similar experience last year. She had had a root canal on a tooth. They told her that she would need a crown and to make her appointment for that in the near future. Well, getting a root canal isn't cheap and crowns are even more so she decided to wait a little between the two. (Like a year) Valentines day rolled around and she decided to eat a box of candy hearts. She bit into those tiny little hearts and her tooth crumbled. She ended up swallowing most of her tooth and that made her feel sick to her stomach and like she wanted to gag all day. Oh, by the way - guess who makes candy hearts? NECCO!

So the moral of the story is - If you are an adult with bad teeth, lots of fillings. . . root canals etc...- like my family -

Don't Eat Neccos!