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[lavendertook]

Two and a half hour session in the dentist's chair this afternoon that started off with "Oops, sorry" and a nice big drill hole in the bottom of my tongue, and it just got more fun from there. asghajgadjdfgusfgajkfhklj!!!!! Anyway, going back to bed and curling in a fetal ball now.

So I have a really good excuse right now for why I haven't replied if you've posted me. Will be on later this evening when I wake up.

Hey, nothing worse can happen today, right? And the bright side: I eat ice cream all weekend.

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[isengar-took.livejournal.com]

Ah, it pains me to read of your discomfort! I hope you are feeling better soon! Perhaps later, my mun will tell you a story about dentists and Appalachia <-- or however it's spelled.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear Isengar. (-:

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

Oh - ice cream! I avoid it - some of it is made with a seaweed derivitive to which I've yet to show a sensitivity, but I'd rather not find out anytime soon. Frozen yogurt is okay, though.

*prepares you for dentist anecdote alluded to by the delightful and very concerned Isengar* Have you read Where The Red Fern Grows?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Aww, you poor thing with those allergies! But the yogurt is better for you. I'm not going for better for me today--I went for Godiva. aahaha!

No, I haven't. *poors some green tea, folds legs, snuggles a kitty, and expects to hear a tale of pain that will make her feel she got off lucky today* (-;

Where does the red fern grow? Damned if I can remember.

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

The book takes place in the 1930s in some goddess forsaken town out in the middle of nowhere where they've not electricity or indoor plumbing or any of the accepted modern conviences of this modern age. The main character gets him some coon hounds, trains them to kill everything they see coons, enters and wins a coon killing competition, then loses his dogs when they attack a mountain lion 'cause they've been trained to kill everything rather than recognize that you don't mess with mountian lions. Tis one of those books you either love or hate. I did not love it.

I did, however, have to teach it to my sixth graders during my student teaching. I taught in Greeneville, CT, which is in the heart of the city of Norwich - poverty abounds and it's about as far from rural America in the 1930s as you can get. My kids had no way to identify with the main character. None. Their lives were far too different.

So Anneheart asked around and discovered that CCJ of the Henna Page had parents who'd grown up in Appalachia in the 1930s. She sent me a biography, which we read, and the kids came up with questions for her, which I emailed during lunch and which we discussed after lunch and the next day. It was a huge success, that.

CCJ's father father was the town dentist. Now, this town didn't have electricity, so he had to, ah, power the drill manually via a foot pedal; so if you had much drilling to be done, you had to hope that his leg wasn't tired.

*shudders at the thought*

Can you imagine that? The kids had a very hard time with that idea - foot powered drill.

Anyway, I hope you're feeling better and that your dentist always has access to electricity.

Re: Where does the red fern grow? Damned if I can remember.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd love it either. It sounds like the message is: be careful of who you pick fights with, because if they're bigger than you they'll whup ya, and shows no concern with the idea that there should be limits to your fighting because you should never hurt someone who is less powerful than you. The incentive against violence here is self-protection only, rather than care for others.


Ick on foot drills. Hope they had access to now frowned upon methods of pain killing.

Thank you--I am better today. I just don't know if I've chosen an incompetent dentist or if what I'm dealing with with all the repeated novocaine shots, some due to defective needles, and painful drilling still, and wondering if your teeth are being over shaved, and slip ups that lead to tongue drilling, is all par for the course--it's not trusting the person who you're putting permanent parts of your body into the care of that is unsettling in an ongoing way.

[sibyllae.livejournal.com]

"Oops, sorry" and a nice big drill hole in the bottom of my tongue, and it just got more fun from there.









*begins crushing up some of Mom's Happy!painkillers to add to some yummylicious saffron and rosewater ice cream*

Translation

[sibyllae.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, you poor dear!!!!

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[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I understood! Getting fluent now.(-; Thank you! I'm getting better--just a little sore now. It looks worse than it feels, though it did feel like it looks earlier. (-; Was scary. But hey, I got a clean karmic slate now! (-;

[sibyllae.livejournal.com]

Gah. >.< I hope you're continuing to do better today. *hugs*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I am. I hope you're having a better day than yesterday. Hugs!!

[sibyllae.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you. This weekend has been a bit odd, overall. Hopeful in bits, but despairing and disappointing in others. This week I really truly give up caffeine for good (or at least a very long time) as well as making some other changes to my diet--am hoping that that will help even things out for me.

Will be thinking of you tomorrow, and sending many good and protective *shoots scary!evil!dentist a few choice death-glares* thoughts your way.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*Hugs!* Good luck on these steps!!!! I took it easy, slept a lot being exhausted, and took walks in the nice weather we've been having finally. The lake is full of blooms and butterflies right now.

Thank you! I just can't tell if she's evil or just had bad luck that was worse for me. (-; I will be switching to another office after the bridge is all done next time I need work though, just in case. Buuut, she cancelled all her appts today so I'm being fit in tomorrow.

[herdivineshadow]

O_O

You should sleeeep. ::nods::

Can you not have liquidised other food? like... ham? liquidised ham with liquidised peas and potatoes is really nice.

I suspect I will be asleep when you go online so...I will post things on Monday when I return. :D

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, dear! I did take a couple hours sleep curled up around a purring cat, so the best kind. (-; I can eat--it's just a little sore--the cold ice cream feels nice though, so there's my excuse.(-;

OK, Gerald the Balrog--ahahaha! (-: And very scary icon! And that's fine--that will give the hobbits all weekend to talk and angst. (-;

!!!

[abandonada.livejournal.com]

Owie! I'm wincing in pain just reading your entry. Take care, my child! Will catch up with you later!

I vote 'yes' for an ice cream deluge.

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[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie--I'm feeling better now, just a little sore. Got thru it.

And one of my monarchs just hatched!!! (-: He's busy hanging upside down from his chrysalis right now letting his wings expand. I think I'll keep him in the terrarium overnight because he has a few hours of pumping up his wings ahead of him and take him outside in the morning. He's pretty.(-:

The monarch sounds so pretty!

[abandonada.livejournal.com]

Will you take any photos of the butterfly? Maybe Bingo will pose with it!

It is!!(-:

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I didn't. I don't think my camera takes very well thru glass. And when I set them free, I don't want to mess with a camera. There's really good photos on the web as well--they really do look just like this except that those shiny spots and band on the sea green chrysalis are really a fine, shiny, metalic gold--just like gold leaf. Here's another good site.

Anyway, I set the one that emerged last night loose today down by the lake. He flew into a willow tree. I may have seen him again with a new monarch friend when I took a walk down there later.

I do have a Frodo action figure next to the terrarium staring in at the one remaining chrysalis. (-;

Thanks for the links

[abandonada.livejournal.com]

Those photos are very pretty. I didn't know all that about the monarch metamorphosis. How lucky you are to see this happening in person!

And Frodo's lucky as well!

Re: Thanks for the links

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

And the other monarch took off today like a shot when I set him out. A real strong flyer, that one. (-: I get to see them when I take my walk around the lake until they take off for the Monarch Vacation Spot in the fall.

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

You poor woman. Going to the dentist is bad enough when things go well. Sounds like you had a horrible experience.

Warm ginger tea with honey is awfully good, just in case you get tired of ice cream all weekend.
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[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Yeah--you said it! See, I've had a few fillings before but never anything as extensive as this process. I had a cracked molar pulled a month ago, and now they're fitting me for a replacement tooth as part of a bridge that involves shaving down the adjacent teeth for crownings. It's just involved so many shots of novocaine--and I'm needle phobic to begin with--and I've never had multiple shots before--one shot always numbed my face for what needed to be done. So I'm feeling a little leery if things are being done right here as its been such an ordeal. And of course, getting one's tongue drilled does not increase the trust factor. ahaha! Oy!

Thank you, dear. (-: I'm having some green tea with rose water as we speak.

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

Have you been to this dentist before? I have had some horrible experiences with dentists. Perhaps one day when you're finished with this procedure and all is well, we should compare dental horror stories. I've never had my tongue drilled though! Yikes! I can't even imagine how much that must have hurt (and likely still does hurt). Poor you.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

No, just since we started this procedure because they are on the dental plan I got on.

Cool--we should do it over some really decadent dessert. (-;

It hurt quite a bit, but truly, not much more than some of the novocaine needles hurt, which was quite a bit. It's filling in nicely today and I'm on a high dose of ibuprophen so I'm feeling no pain. Thank you. ahahaha! Poor Carole!(-;

[sibyllae.livejournal.com]

*snugs* To say that I hope your experience at the dentist's tomorrow will be much better than last time would be a grand understatement.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

*snugs* TY. It will just be a follow-up. What could possibly go wrong? (-;