More Needles ... Grind, drill

Back in to the dentist ... more needles ... I hate it when they give a shot into the hard roof area of the mouth ... that REALLY HURTS!

Drill, drill, drill ... grind grind ... the same 2 teeth again ... for 2 more hours ... 2 temporary caps ... an appointment next Friday for the crowns to be put on ... and $1,350 added to the bill. That's all the teeth I can afford until next year this time.

2 Root Canals

Just 2 root canals done at the dentist yesterday ... 2 full syringes of numb-stuff ... 3 hours in the dental chair ... multiple x-rays ... a big bottle of Tylenol #3 ... and $835 added to the bill ...

The side of my face is still in pain this morning ... 

and I have another dental visit today!

Vacation Dentist Trips

We are sitting here in SoCal ... spending our days reading.  Also visiting the dentist.  Waiting to get paid, so we can go shopping.  L.A. says I only made $3,000 last year ... so I can't collect unemployment.  Wonder where they are getting their figures from.  They also don't count anything in the last 18 months that I earned in Utah, Arizona, or Florida. (betcha they count when it comes to collecting taxes!!)

The dentist says there is nothing wrong with my teeth (like the ones that have been swollen around the roots for the last 12 months) ... that 3 root canal operations (roto-rooter the nerves) ... 3 caps ... and $3500 would cure.  Yep.  I'm real hesitant about every one of those.  They freak me out.  

We had ice cream for dessert last night ... one aspirin on either side of the two teeth in the upper left jaw (teeth numbers 13 & 14) ... and 45 minutes pressing on the nerve centers on the left side of my face ... and I felt almost normal again.  Then Oma made peanut-butter cookies today.

Maybe I should just spend more days at the beach.  "Waiting for my ship to come in."  

I checked the voicemail on our home phone ... and that on my cell phone ... checked email accounts ... no bites or messages that we want to receive.  No we aren't taking up residence here.  Too many people, too expensive, over-regulated.  However, not as many mosquitos, most of the little ants aren't fire-ants, great bicycle paths.  

There you have it for today!

To Dentist, to Dentist, to Dentist ...

I went to the Dentist on Tuesday morning, on Wednesday morning, and again on Thursday morning. I told the Dentist that I really needed to get a new hobby ... and not see him for awhile.

Just imagine having an ear itch ... scratching it ... but not feeling it (not getting relief), because the whole side of my face was numb. And waiting hours and hours for it to go away so that my face would return back to its normal appearance. People seem to be a bit "put off" by you drooling out of the corner of your mouth ...

Enough of that for a couple of weeks. :0)

Good Start to Week

This week has started out excellently! I called Daniel this morning to find out how the load was going ... He said they were about done unloading him, but the return-trip load had been canceled. Seems the cold storage facility in Minooka had insufficient product to do the load. So he is stuck there until he can find a load back.
The load up barely paid enough money for the fuel to get it there ... the load back was supposed to be the money maker.

My wife called the dentist this morning to confirm my dental appointment at 09:00 a.m. The appointment was made at the end of March, written down in the book, and the secretary wrote out an appointment card for me to take home as a reminder. It seems it never made it into the computer at the dental office. No dental appointment.
So my wife drags me around to take fotos of houses all over the countryside. Took so many flash fotos that the camera is back on the charger to get enough energy to download the fotos to the computer.

Nice day though. :0)