Pulling Teeth

Have you really thought about that expression, "It's like pulling teeth" ?

If you stop and think about it for a moment, pulling teeth is the worst thing that most people can think of, that is why they compare other bad things to it. Well, our trip to the dentist yesterday was like pulling teeth.

Tate was supposed to be getting a root canal, or so we were told, and it was Graham's first appointment with this dentist. Our prvious dentist did not have an orthadontist, and both boys need braces, so I switched to Western Dental.

We got there a little late (only 5 minutes) but they weren't ready to see us anyway, so it didn't really matter.

First of all, their chairs in the waiting room may be comfortable for the average sized person, but you get someone a little over weight and the arms of the chair start cutting into your thighs. I tried to ignore the pain, and thankfully, my thighs went numb before too long.

They took Tate back first and put him in a chair... and there he waited. After an hour, they called me back and told me that the doctor was doing another root canal and that we had to wait another hour for him to even get to Tate. They asked if I wanted to wait. Since they still had not seen Graham, it wasn't like I had a choice. So Tate sat there waiting for another hour.

When they finally called Graham back and started checking him in, they brought Tate to me and told me that they had made a mistake and he did not need a root canal, so they did not do a thing to him, except keep him in a dentist chair for two hours.

After Graham was checked in they took us back to another room, and the chair for me in that room was even more uncomfortable than the waiting room. It killed my back.

Graham and I sat and waited, and waited, and waited. All they ended up doing was "sealing" some of his teeth and cleaning his teeth. They did take xrays. He has been having pain in his neck and shoulders, and since his pediatrition, Dr. Alverez can't find a problem, I am sure that it is because he does not have enough mouth to hold all his teeth.

I stayed with Graham most of the time in the waiting room, but I got to be so uncomfortable that I went to the van and sent Todd in to sit with him. All together, we were in that dentist office almost four hours. It was like pulling teeth!

If you have never had a tooth pulled, let me tell you, it is no picnic! I had one split when I was pregnant with Graham, and they had to pull it. I thought my jaw would break before they got it loosened!

After the dentist we had to take the van back to my mom. We were at her place about an hour. We stopped at the store on the way home, and it was nearly 7 pm when we got home. I immediately got started on cooking dinner when there was a loud banging on the side of our trailer, then my friend Sandy walked through the door.

Sandy said she was my leprechan and said she was taking us out for drinks. I left Tate in charge of dinner and we went with her down to Big Bubba's where we finally got to meet this guy that she moved in with after only knowing a day. His name is Craig, and he is a very nice, very mellow, fun guy. Him and Sandy are very cute together.

Sandy rode the bull at Bubba's. She managed to stay on quite a while, but she eventually got thrown. I bet she is sore from it today.

Todd and I had two drinks with Sandy and Craig and then came back home.

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School

Some of the people in my Christian Worldview class are acting very ignorant in our class discussion. Last week the teacher asked us just to consider some of the flaws, or holes in the theory of evolution. Two of the people from the class posted that they would not even think about evolution because it was so far from their beliefs...

HELLO!!!

Forgive me, but I can't tolerate minds that are that closed. I honestly am not an evolution basher. When I took anthropology I discovered that a lot of the things Jehovah's Witnesses taught me about evolution were wrong. For instance, the fossil record does contain fossils of the intermediate stages between modern humans and lesser primates, and the reason the fossil evidence is so spotty is because the odds of something becoming a fossil are very high. One of the most compelling pieces of evidence is the midochondrial DNA. I won't try to explain it because I am so not qualified. Here is a link that has good info on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

I tried to reason with people from my class by bringing up how the Catholic Church persecuted and imprisioned Galileo when he declared that the earth was not the center of the universe. We know now for a fact that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around. Will people be looking back at us in another four or eight hundred years and wondering how we could have ever rejected the idea of evolution? It does Christians no good to deny science. True, science does not have all the answers, and that is where faith comes in. I hope that made sense.

This week people in my class are just science bashing. One person stated that science experiments were "just that" experiments, and that scientits only conducted them for research money. Another person who posted that science experiment is the only way to gain knowledge. Talk about two extremities, LOL.