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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16975 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Tue, 09 June 2009 19:33   |
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Peter is a Good Man.
Your dentist is clearly INSANE. And yeah, I'd start viewing the fish as triggers, too. *shudder* (Next year I'm going in to get my wisdom teeth removed. I will be curious to see if I get anything like a fish video for the ordeal. I suspect not.)
Smooshes!
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16976 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Tue, 09 June 2009 19:43 |
 b_twin_1
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Dentists..... *shudder*
I don't *think* my dentist has a fish video. I'm not making an appointment though just to find out....
And there is nothing wrong with Chardonnay. A good Chardonnay that is. 
[Updated on: Tue, 09 June 2009 20:09]
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16982 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Tue, 09 June 2009 20:25 |
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Poppies! Aren't those poppies in the grass in the second lovely photo? We have nice wildflowers here, but no poppies, sigh.
Abigail
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16984 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Tue, 09 June 2009 22:04 |
kfoster2047
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I thought I had experienced the depths of dentist depravity but slicing off your gums? And cauterizing your flesh at the same time? Yuck, yuck, and yuck!!! Just the thought is going to give me nightmares. The complete failure of local anaesthetic on my system is why any major dental work requires them to put me out completely. I stiff upper lip it through the "minor" kinds like periodontal scaling.
On the other hand, we ALWAYS have champagne cold - my husband knows the limits of our relationship too!
Hope you feel better tomorrow!
Karen
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16992 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 08:00 |
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Black Bear
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And I was thinking, okay, they chose fish because of all those studies that say that staring at swimming fish is hypnotically soothing.
"They" are full of it.  They've ruined fish for you forever...
My own dentist's walls are covered in kids' crayon drawings, most of them relating to good dental hygiene (no doubt with some parental prompting.) My dentist, and his dad who used to be my dentist, and his sister who's the hygienist, are all VERY good with kids, so they get given all these "thank you for making my teeth clean" pictures and it's all very cute. But the best one is one that's been on the wall since I was a kid; it's a small pencil drawing of a stick-figure with a long dress, a pointy witch's hat, a frowny face and fangs. It's labeled "Ann," which is the name of the hygienist. And it's signed "by John, Age 43." I think she had it laminated...
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #16998 is a reply to message #16974 ] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 15:11 |
Karayna
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oh yea and great pictures!
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #17015 is a reply to message #17006 ] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 19:41 |
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| Robin wrote on Wed, 10 June 2009 19:23 |
I'm not kidding either! That's what it is! A tiny electric blowtorch!
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Oh... like the ones they use in the kitchen to finish off meringues and stuff? *g*
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #17022 is a reply to message #17020 ] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 21:13 |
kfoster2047
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Oh yes, the crunching sound. When I was much younger (and Novocaine actually worked on me) I had several teeth out (large teeth, small jaw) and that was one of the worst parts - the sound!
Now, of course, Novocaine doesn't work on me at all. Digression - why do dentists NOT believe that? The first time I went to the periodontist, I told him that local anaesthetics don't work on me. Oh, no problem, he says, we have great new stuff. Unnh huh, I say but eventually, I agree to give it a try. So he carefully uses a topical anaesthetic and gently (relatively speaking) injects the first shot. Not too bad. It works, a little, for about 5 minutes. Ow, I say. Oh, you need another shot, says the hygienist. This time, it is not quite so gentle - and it lasts three minutes. Rinse and repeat THREE more times, each time the shot itself getting more and more painful - who knew that the needle could actually feel like it was penetrating my brain - and a more and more grim determined look on my my periodontist's face. At which point I said, NO MORE NEEDLES. So then I came back three weeks later and they put me OUT to do the rest.
But champagne does cure most ills, including evil dentists!
Karen
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #17027 is a reply to message #17024 ] |
Wed, 10 June 2009 22:51 |
skating librarian
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Ever since the "bad dentist" who didn't tell me he was going to knock me out for the removal of a wisdom tooth ... I've been lucky to have a great dentist. A woman dentist who stops when she sees you're in pain. Who knows who you are ... who lets you know that she is a real human being and treats you as a friend.
She also has good thought provoking art on the walls and nothing corny like fish on the ceiling ...
Although I've forgotten context, my favorite ceiling had a poster ... "When you've reached the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Fire and Champagne [message #17045 is a reply to message #17022 ] |
Thu, 11 June 2009 12:28 |
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Dentistry! Aaackkk! I have the opposite problem with local anasthesia-though the needles do feel like icepicks on the way in (I try not to look too closely at the dental instruments, but last time I couldn't help myself, and only the panoply of hardware stuffed into my mouth like very thorny flower stems into a very cramped and uncomfortable vase kept me from an unseemly outburst to the effect of " Holy *#$@! what gauge is that?! How can you be allowed to jam a needle the size of a garden hose into my face?!" ). I do get numb, which is nice, but afterwards it takes forever to wear off. It turns out that I'm sensitive to the epenephrine that they spike the anasthetic with to make it long lasting. Last time I had a couple of fillings, half my face was completely numb for more than seven hours which really stunk because I had to give a lecture on Mycenaean Greece that afternoon and not only did I look like I'd had a stroke, but I kept biting my tongue. My poor students were torn between sympathy and hilarity the whole time.
So for all fellow sufferers, (especially Robin, who had to submit to the indignity of fish videos as well as gouging, burning, and slicing) I send you virtual, calorie-and-dental-decay-free chocolate and adult beverages (I tend to skip the wine and go straight for the vodka in these situations-of course it's good for me-it's antiseptic!) to cure what ails you.
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