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A day out at the dentist!

 

I think you will know by my picture that I am disabled.  There were only two things on my body that I think work rather well.  One was my hair and the other my teeth the rest of me is rubbish.  I say was because my statement is now out of date.  I use an electric toothbrush and try if I remember to brush my teeth twice a day.  I noticed a video the other day on cre8buzz of a comedian having a joke about electric toothbrushes.  How the people who use one must be incredibly lazy but for me they are a wonderful invention.  I nearly wrote a comment about the video but decided it wasn’t worth explaining how the electric toothbrush was essential for me so I just kept quiet.

 

  Considering that when my parents reach my age they already had false teeth I think I am doing quite well but for the last three or four days they have been giving me jip as they say around here,  so much so that I have booked myself in for an appointment tomorrow.  For me going to the dentist is a big thing not because I am particularly fearful of having dental work done but for me it is quite an expedition.

 

I have a special car for traveling and I go in to the back in my wheelchair because it is no longer possible for me to get into the passenger seat.  I am not the greatest of drivers and even when I was fit I wouldn’t drive a car because I was afraid of causing injury or even death because of my absentmindedness.  The chances are it would be my death that I caused rather than anybody else and that is something I wouldn’t be keen on.  I am always surprised that drivers even though they have trouble putting a sentence together they still manage to keep a car on the road.  Then when you have to look at what other people are doing!  Coming from the side coming from behind not to mention gears and brakes.  I had to drive I’m sure I would just panic.  I was always happy being a passenger and told I was a very good passenger because I didn’t tell people how to drive.  I just kept my head down when they were turning right because I would always wait until there was nothing in sight before I thought it was safe to come out.  I just thought it would be turning left any other place than Britain but you understand what I mean.

 

  I have had a motorised wheelchair in the house for the last three years but have never used it because I damaged the paintwork.  I used to call it the electric chair until I realised it was the wrong terminology.  It sounds like a place of execution rather than transportation.  For the last few months I have found it has been impossible to use the manual chair and been using it out of necessity.  What has surprised me is that I  Have been managing quite well.  My special friend Renee isn’t going to paint the skirting board again though until I have managed not to have any accidents for a least six months.

 

Well I am going to the dentist tomorrow and believe it or not I’m quite looking forward to it.  The dentist is in a hospital about 10 miles away and it is the drive through some nice countryside.  The hospital is in the town that has about 50,000 population and also a supermarket so Renee is going to double up and do some shopping because of the credit crunch.  You have to think about these things now don’t you.

October 28, 2008 |


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    sjoukes    , Women October 29, 2008 4:15 am   

    good luck..
    I hate the dentist..in fact am terrified of the dentist..I shake and now never go
    apart from that have a lovely shop with your friend :>))

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    Maureen    , Painting/Drawing November 2, 2008 8:18 am   

    Ha! I went to the dentist for the first time in two years; but was shocked to hear that I hadn’t had a proper cleaning in over 10 years! TEN years???? Oh, my… needless to say, I have been booked for another three appointments…

    Oh my.

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