Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2006. Mattie was four years old and hamming it up with me on our deck. I was outside watering our plants and Mattie came out with me. He wasn't watering but instead was jumping in front of the hose to get doused with water. So if you look closely you will see Mattie's hair was all wet. All I know is life with Mattie was never boring!
Quote of the day: Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. ~ Ann Landers
I think Ann Landers' quote is brilliant. It describes my experience at the dentist today to a T. Obviously I haven't had enough done to my body in the last month (with scans and surgery), I had to go to the dentist today for my first ever partial crown. I had no idea what this would entail truly, other than I wanted to address this tooth issue before it became a full blown crown. Which I did!
My dentist office is in DC and it is VERY high tech. I am telling you there is a gadget for everything, and they make standard of care look very insufficient. Going to them entails NO more scraping of teeth or bite wing xrays. Instead there is the use of technology that blasts plaque off of teeth and the use of a small camera that goes into your mouth for dental xrays. For a person like myself, who typically doesn't like high tech things, I freely admit that technology in the case of dentistry is necessary. It makes the experience so much better.
Now putting that aside, my dental assistant today was very pregnant. She is in her 40s and told me she had a miscarriage last year. Mind you I don't know her, this is the first time I met her. But I got a mouthful, including that her pregnancy is producing carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands. I related to the pains and issues she is having, because I had them all with Mattie. After listening to her, I told her I understood how important it was for her to have this baby, given that I lost my only child to cancer. She did remark on this, but ironically when I was sitting in the chair getting drilled on, there was a lot of baby talk in the room. Not directed to me, but among the dentist (whose wife is expecting a baby next week), and the two dental assistants. Talk about a captive audience on a subject matter that is not exactly pleasant for me to hear about! But as Ann Landers' said.... I was helplessly mute!
While in the chair, I fortunately could look out the window, and I watched the clouds go by, while I was there for 2.5 hours. In the midst of the dental procedure, my pregnant dental assistant was training another assistant to take over her role when she goes on maternity leave. So in essence I got to learn a lot while listening to the tutorial going on in my mouth. More than I bargained for today, because I thought I was there to solely focus on my teeth. But with all these distractions, it kept my mind busy.
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