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chomijiWoes. The Young Lady needs to get her wisdom teeth removed.
This isn't a big surprise (my husband and his sister, and I and my sister, all had to have that done), but it was already looking like a busy summer. And she's never had a serious medical procedure - not even a single stitch or an ilness worse than the flu in 16 years. So she's not feeling very brave about it.
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Date: 2008-05-13 03:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-15 02:09 pm (UTC)Heh ... I figured that at some point, it would be "Mom! Gimme some privacy here!"
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Date: 2008-05-15 04:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-16 03:24 am (UTC)Sound advice ... .
:-)
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Date: 2008-05-16 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-17 03:46 am (UTC)Hmm, I wasn't sick very often when I was a kid - my sister was the one with the tonsillitis and all that crud - and we belonged to Group Health, which was essentially an early HMO. My pediatrician, Dr. Diamond, was this grumpy slightly creepy gnomelike guy ... I was just as glad not to see him alone. Care's doctor is a woman of roughly my age, also a mother, whom Care likes well enough to insist on seeing (vs. any other doctor in the practice) even though she;s in only 2 days a week.
Our dentist was likewise a grumpy old fashioned guy - we never had novocaine ... .
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Date: 2008-05-19 07:50 pm (UTC)My teeth were a horrendous mess - some of the lower incisors were so crowded that they had turned at right angles to the others. Nowadays they usually treat that with "palate expanders" that take advantage of a young child's skeletal flexibility to make more room (as long as the bone structure seems to support it), but I had extractions twice before I had braces, and I'm missing my bicuspids as a result.
Originally my regular dentist was going to do the extractions, but as mentioned, he'd never used Novocaine on us before, and when he came at me with this enormous syringe, I freaked out so badly that he gave up (and thereafter I had the experience with the oral surgeon that I described previously).