Never Mind

Yesterday, while waiting for breakfast to arrive at Amoy Hawker Centre, I fell off the chair again and this time, another part of my tooth chipped off! My parents did not know I had chipped off part of my tooth when they picked me up from the ground. They only saw I had cut my lower lip on the right hand side and there was blood. Papa offered me a piece of tissue to help stop the bleeding while Mama held me in her arms to comfort me. I was especially clingy to Mama for quite a while after the fall. I sat on her lap and held on to her right arm which I wanted to be placed across my chest like a sash worn by beauty queens.

Mama thought it was the pain caused by the bleeding lip and the fact that I lost some blood that caused me to be so clingy. Maybe I was tired too. After a while, perhaps 10 minutes or so, I felt better and could sit on my own again. I even ate some half-boiled egg and some beef noodle with soup. I even took Aunty Lorraine for a walk back to church when she and Uncle Bernard came to join us for breakfast.

It was only after we reached home and Mama was showering me when she discovered my chipped tooth and my, it was a big piece chipped off this time. Mama felt like crying as she was very sad that I had lost such a big part of my tooth.

Papa said it's ok and it will probably grow back over the year. But Papa also said precautions will be taken and I will have to sit in a pram if we eat at Amoy Hawker Centre again. He said the stools there are higher than the chairs I usually sit on which caused me to mis-judge the distance between stool and ground and hence I tripped when I try to come down from the stool on my own.

Last evening, Mama stood next to me when I brushed my teeth and she started feeling sad over my chipped tooth again. Although she said nothing, it was as if I could read her thoughts and I said 'Never mind". I even did it twice. Mama was glad I could comfort her. Don't worry for me, I am still pretty much my cheerful and happy self, chatty too except that my tooth felt a little uncomfortable. Mama want to touch it to see if it was shaky but no, she is not allowed to do that. I won't allow her. ;p