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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Smile!

We got the freezing rain that was forecast, followed by a couple inches of fresh snow.  All day, cars coming down the hill toward my house skidded and spun, fishtailing around the corner.  It was not fun to watch that.  I was very grateful for my new SUV after an uneventful drive into the office.  I would not have wanted to brave those roads in my little convertible.  We've been spoiled this winter by unseasonably warm temps and lack of snow.

Miss Diva's school was closed, so Gramma took advantage of the free day and took Diva to the dentist.  Her parents don't make dental care a priority.  Diva had not been to a dentist since she started school six years ago. She needs to have two cavities filled.  She called, so excited, after her appointment.  She told Walker, "I'm done at the dentist and I didn't even cry!"  She didn't even care that she has to go back for the fillings.

When I was little, my mom sometimes got public assistance.  My parents were divorced and my mom  is disabled.  She worked when she could, but sometimes, she wasn't able.  There was one dentist in town who would take public assistance patients, so that's who we went to.  The summer I was seven my back molars came in, and I guess I wasn't brushing back far enough.  I got cavities in all eight molars. Our dentist would not give Novocaine to public assistance patients.  I got all eight teeth drilled with no pain reliever.  He did one side at a time, and after the first two hour appointment I was so scared to go back and have the other side done.  I cried all the way there in the car.  Not long after that, my dad's job offered dental insurance, so my mom found a new dentist for us.  The first time I got Novocaine, I couldn't believe how painless the procedure was.  Still, I'm surprised I voluntarily go to the dentist now.  Those scars run deep. 

6 comments:

  1. Hello, we have all been having trouble posting our blogs. We are getting it taken care of. I read on the blogger buzz to go to my settings and use anything but embedded comments. It worked for me and gradually got the word out and now they have changed and are doing ok. Strange part of it was that I could comment on yours and Dee Dee's, Dear Diary. I do not touch my reply-comment thing. Glad you made it safely to work. We had about an inch of snow and it pretty much melted, by noon..

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  2. That dentist must have been hard to not use novacaine on kids. :(
    I am still nervous about going to the dentist, even just for my check up/cleaning, etc.... big chicken...Lol.
    Skidding around on the snow reminds me of my hubby and I when we were kids, driving a VW...using it like a snow sled. I think now, that we were terrors on the road....lol.

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  3. You poor thing. Going to the dentist getting that kind of work without NOVOCAINE is criminal. Shame on that dentist. What a rotten thing to do to those less fortunate, especially a child. I'm spoiled too by this mild winter and low snowfall totals. Hope it stays the course until spring. Take care.

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  4. That sounds like one cruel dentist. Treating economically disadvantaged people differently is really mean.

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  5. Indeed things like that do leave scars. I do not like going to dentists. I took my kids to the dental college and it worked out pretty good. Must have had more advanced students. AS for me I have wound up scooted down almost to the foot rest trying to get away from the pain . Also had the unpleasant groping dentist. I was to afraid to tell anyone.

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  6. I have a fear of dentists after being tortured by one when I was a teenager. To this day the minute I walk into the office, I start to sweat and my pulse races. I just had half a filling come out of my tooth and need to see the dentist next week. I'm a wreck!

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