I have seen that Dubai chocolate and the $20 price tag...insane! Just another thing that TikTok got a hold of and inflated the price. Totally unrelated product, but a meteorite called Moldavite used to sell in my friend's store for between $20 and $30 a piece. Some 'influencers' got hold of it and grossly exaggerated its powers, and now it is about $150-$400 for a tiny piece. Does it change your life? Do I need to answer that? lol
Katherine, you are part of humanity. Can you feel the still red embers within? Others may not have felt their own internal warmth and let the heat die. But you, Katherine, stir your still red embers daily, feeling the warm as you write and record your life’s daily moments.
Wow, Jim, you almost got the waterworks going again. I’m watching my Connecticut Senators telling us about the grifter-in-chief’s pay to play dinner tonight. Talk about people with no inner light.
Loved the post, Katharine! Sure hope you get our dental work done before the big, bad, and butt ugly bill gets passed! I will be watching the Senate vote, and I will support any effort to primary and replce any Democratic senator that votes for it! I have had it with the whole “go along to get along” BS!
I remember when Dr. Z was the new guy in the practice (about 35 years ago) and I broke a cusp off one of my molars. He said it really needed a crown but he could put in a giant filling which was all I could afford at the time. It lasted a good 10 years until I could afford a crown and he did that. My first crown was installed by Dr. Masters and it is still in marvelous shape. The dentist in Houston installed a crown that fell off after I got back to PA where Dr. Z (who had his own office by then) put a better one on. But the guy in Houston had done a really crappy job and there was hidden nerve damage in the root which eventually required a root canal which drilled holes in Dr. Z's crown so he had to effect repairs when the oral surgeon was done. But I still have all 32 teeth and I hope to keep them. Cassie, who scrapes the tartar off twice a year tells me I'm doing a good job.
Wow, Don A. You’re a lucky man. I have way less teeth than you and have had lower partial since I was a teenager. But the experts tell me I’m still better off to save the ones I have left. My Mum had all of hers removed at some point and wore removable dentures. As a toddler my daughter loved to ask her Granny to remove them then they laughed together.
I would say get a second opinion on the dental prognostication. I have never heard of a filling needing replaced. I have had fillings crack teeth, but all replaced? I have seen un-needed surgery, as have you.
Thanks for your concern, Carl. I’m quite confident that I need the work described. If I sent you a picture you’d see the black hole which appeared after a chipped crown last year. My post WWII teeth have never been great, with only 23 remaining now. The full set of X-rays with the latest equipment revealed a lot of silent damage. My previous dentist seemed rather blasé when I had an appointment for the first chipped cap. But she took one X-ray and charged me $154 as I recall. I had been going there for years with various husbands. Perhaps my being poorer now affected her care??
Anyway, I’m very pleased with both the dental and medical care I get at CHC.
This Republican Party is cruel and inhumane. Their bill will determine who lives and dies, rather than leaving that to doctors to prescribe responsibly according to the oath to do no harm. This party will have upended years of practice by tying the hands of medical professionals, all decided by a party that thinks it knows more than educated medical professionals. May St. Peter slam the doors of the pearly gates in the face speaker Johnson and his cronies and show them the other door. Johnson claims to be Christian but I see nothing Christian about the loathsome legislation the Republican party has just passed. I appreciate the no votes of Massie of KY and Davidson of Ohio. But abstaining is just a lazy yes vote,which is what Harris, Garbarino and Schweikert did. We need to remember and vote accordingly though I am as appalled at the suffering just inflicted by this Republican Party on Americans, yet a president can insist (without approval)on the Rolls Royce of airplanes while the people of this country suffer. Vote these selfish creatures out.
I’m beginning to think we need to do something to remove the entire regime, Sharon. He’s already a convicted felon and is now flaunting the prohibition against gifts from foreign actors. We have to stop the madness NOW.
I have seen that Dubai chocolate and the $20 price tag...insane! Just another thing that TikTok got a hold of and inflated the price. Totally unrelated product, but a meteorite called Moldavite used to sell in my friend's store for between $20 and $30 a piece. Some 'influencers' got hold of it and grossly exaggerated its powers, and now it is about $150-$400 for a tiny piece. Does it change your life? Do I need to answer that? lol
Thank you very much, Lee, for confirming my belief in humanity this morning. I’ve been enjoying getting to know you here.
Katherine, you are part of humanity. Can you feel the still red embers within? Others may not have felt their own internal warmth and let the heat die. But you, Katherine, stir your still red embers daily, feeling the warm as you write and record your life’s daily moments.
Wow, Jim, you almost got the waterworks going again. I’m watching my Connecticut Senators telling us about the grifter-in-chief’s pay to play dinner tonight. Talk about people with no inner light.
Likewise:) Hope you get the tooth situation sorted out as painlessly as possible!
Loved the post, Katharine! Sure hope you get our dental work done before the big, bad, and butt ugly bill gets passed! I will be watching the Senate vote, and I will support any effort to primary and replce any Democratic senator that votes for it! I have had it with the whole “go along to get along” BS!
Thank you, Irma. If they go after Medicare I am well and truly fucked to turn a phrase. But, ONE DAY AT A TIME, we’re hangin’ tough.
I remember when Dr. Z was the new guy in the practice (about 35 years ago) and I broke a cusp off one of my molars. He said it really needed a crown but he could put in a giant filling which was all I could afford at the time. It lasted a good 10 years until I could afford a crown and he did that. My first crown was installed by Dr. Masters and it is still in marvelous shape. The dentist in Houston installed a crown that fell off after I got back to PA where Dr. Z (who had his own office by then) put a better one on. But the guy in Houston had done a really crappy job and there was hidden nerve damage in the root which eventually required a root canal which drilled holes in Dr. Z's crown so he had to effect repairs when the oral surgeon was done. But I still have all 32 teeth and I hope to keep them. Cassie, who scrapes the tartar off twice a year tells me I'm doing a good job.
Wow, Don A. You’re a lucky man. I have way less teeth than you and have had lower partial since I was a teenager. But the experts tell me I’m still better off to save the ones I have left. My Mum had all of hers removed at some point and wore removable dentures. As a toddler my daughter loved to ask her Granny to remove them then they laughed together.
I would say get a second opinion on the dental prognostication. I have never heard of a filling needing replaced. I have had fillings crack teeth, but all replaced? I have seen un-needed surgery, as have you.
Thanks for your concern, Carl. I’m quite confident that I need the work described. If I sent you a picture you’d see the black hole which appeared after a chipped crown last year. My post WWII teeth have never been great, with only 23 remaining now. The full set of X-rays with the latest equipment revealed a lot of silent damage. My previous dentist seemed rather blasé when I had an appointment for the first chipped cap. But she took one X-ray and charged me $154 as I recall. I had been going there for years with various husbands. Perhaps my being poorer now affected her care??
Anyway, I’m very pleased with both the dental and medical care I get at CHC.
Looks like you are already into a second opinion. I have teeth issues being of some English ancestors, i.e., great grandfather.
Exactly, Carl. First treatment session next Tuesday so we’ll see how it goes.
This Republican Party is cruel and inhumane. Their bill will determine who lives and dies, rather than leaving that to doctors to prescribe responsibly according to the oath to do no harm. This party will have upended years of practice by tying the hands of medical professionals, all decided by a party that thinks it knows more than educated medical professionals. May St. Peter slam the doors of the pearly gates in the face speaker Johnson and his cronies and show them the other door. Johnson claims to be Christian but I see nothing Christian about the loathsome legislation the Republican party has just passed. I appreciate the no votes of Massie of KY and Davidson of Ohio. But abstaining is just a lazy yes vote,which is what Harris, Garbarino and Schweikert did. We need to remember and vote accordingly though I am as appalled at the suffering just inflicted by this Republican Party on Americans, yet a president can insist (without approval)on the Rolls Royce of airplanes while the people of this country suffer. Vote these selfish creatures out.
I’m beginning to think we need to do something to remove the entire regime, Sharon. He’s already a convicted felon and is now flaunting the prohibition against gifts from foreign actors. We have to stop the madness NOW.
Absolutely. They are all sleazy and dishonest. I think it’s time too.