Tooth extraction and date of the next chemotherapy

The day after I had seen the hospital dental consultant I managed to fit in a Technical Audit in Reigate for UKAS, I am trying whenever possible to fit in my few audits that I do around my treatment and the hospital is quite helpful in this respect.
On Friday 20th of September Wendy and I went into the Princess Alexandra ward at Kingston Hospital for my tooth extraction. We didn't have long to wait before I was called in to see the dentist. He spent some time telling me how he was planning to do the extraction. This included details of Plan A and Plan B. Plan A was after numbing the area to gently attempt to wiggle the tooth around, if it could be wiggled then the next step was to remove it. If that failed then it would have to be Plan B which involved cuts and stitches to the gums. Luckily for me Plan A worked and the tooth was out in no time. I then had to wait 10 -15 minutes biting down onto a plug of paper to allow the blood to clot where the tooth had come out. I was then discharged with a list of after care instructions that would help the healing process, namely to have a mouth wash every 2 hours using hot salt solution starting the following day and lasting for 5days. Wendy said that I was out quickly, the whole visit had lasted 30 minutes. I felt fine but my lower jaw felt very numb. We then went to the Chemo treatment clinic to have my PICC cleaned but were told we were too early so we decided to go back home and I would come out again later.
On the Saturday we had an enjoyable day out cruising on the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal in Clive and Jenny's long boat going from Willowtree Marina near Hayes to Uxbridge and back, Jenny is our URC minister at Hampton Hill. It was a very restful day out and good fun opening and closing the locks we passed through, I also managed to more or less keep up with my hot salt water mouth washes that I had to do every 2 hours.
Since having my tooth out there has been very little happening, there has been some discussion as to when would be the most appropriate time to re-start my chemotherapy treatment, the last treatment that I had was on 20 August. The extraction wound needs to be fully healed before the chemotherapy can re-start after taking advice from the dentist the date for me to re-start will be 15th October providing we get a good blood check on the 14th. So the next couple of weeks will be like a short holiday for me and unless there is something to report the next blog will be when I re-start my treatment.