{"id":880,"date":"2010-07-11T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-07-12T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:23:48","slug":"the-dark-side-of-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/the-dark-side-of-popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can something as good as popcorn have a dark side? \u00a0I made my fluffy paper lunch bag pop corn Friday night and I guess a hull got stuck up inside my gum. \u00a0I woke up Saturday with swollen and sore gums. \u00a0Flossing didn&#8217;t help and I wonder if it pushed the hull up even farther. This morning I woke up with a headache on the same side and even more pain and swelling. \u00a0I called my dentist&#8217;s office and left a message asking where I could go today for emergency hull extraction. She called back and said I was her second call this weekend for popcorn hulls (who knew?) and told me to rinse with hot salt water and put some Anbesol on it. I also took a Tylenol. It helped a lot, in fact I don&#8217;t know if the hull came out or if I&#8217;m just masking the pain and it&#8217;s still up there. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not big on pain pills because masking the pain doesn&#8217;t solve the problem. \u00a0You have to find the cause and fix that. If I could see it, maybe I could do something but I can&#8217;t see up there in the back. Well, I know this will pass but the bigger issue is what will this trauma do to my popcorn-enjoying experience? \u00a0Will I be overcome by anxiety? Will I hesitate before every crunchy bite? \u00a0Should I chew and floss between each bite? Should I eat it one piece at a time and first remove the hull? 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