Posted by
Joyanna Adams on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:49:49 AM
Nobody Knows just how pitifully
sorry I was feeling for myself after I saw my dentist today. And
nobody knows; that when it comes to suffering, it's all relative.
The good news? My year of relentless flossing, brushing, water picking, and scraping of my poor gums and teeth every night has paid off. No new cavities...in the teeth I can reach.
The bad news: The dentist found one cavity...just one. But it was IN THE LAST MOLAR in the back...underneath a bridge, that this VERY SAME DENTIST had put on when I was just twenty-years old, and he did not recognized me, or his own work! (I cannot reach this tooth, no one can.)
I mean, how could you forget those you have tortured like that? I don't know how he could forget me. Really. I always had my best tennis shoes on.
The only way to fix the tooth is to saw off the bridge, which is cemented to two very fine teeth, and jawbone, that I am really very fond of. I imagine, by the look on his face, it will probably be done with some huge machine right out of the Soprano's...
Yes..saw off the bridge, put in a "fake" bridge for me to use for two weeks, and then come back for the final day of pain, and the new bridge which will probably decay again before I die.
This will cost so much, they are delaying having to tell me the "price" for two weeks.
I'm going to need novacane before I hear it.
(And speaking of decay, Al Gore just walked onto the set of David Letterman)
Tonight I saw this picture of the Baker Company...one of the last Marines left in Iraq...who are waiting the commander-in chiefs orders, which is coming right after his next round of golf...or maybe not.
Really...I look at this picture and, after realizing that I am not sitting in that miserable muck, in Iraq, away from my home----I am SO lucky to just be looking forward to getting my tooth fix.
I will have a nice warm bed to go home and feel sorry for myself in.
On the other hand, if these guys had to listen to Al Gore as much as we do.. they might think I've got the worst of it..
Wait---Al says we are putting 90 million tons of carbon..into the air every day! And he says sea shells are in trouble! And he is going to be a carbon billionaire, who wears blush and lipstick! ( I swear he has makeup on.)
BUT... David thinks it's a small price to pay if we are going to save the planet...
Okay...this is getting hard to handle...I'm picturing...Al Gore, sitting in this mud hole, with the Marines, in Iraq, and he has a painful tooth ache, and his backpack solar panels are not working due to rain, so he is shivering, and the Marines are eating lots of beans and steak, and giving him...beans and prune juice..
And telling him they are going to PULL that bad tooth, with some pliers...for the planet's sake.
And they actaully do, because...they're just good guys.
Hey...god bless imagination...and god bless the Marines!