I tried brushing my teeth

My dentist told me I should get an electric tooth brush. Ok dentist, I will listen to you since I have nightmares about all my teeth falling out. I will do anything you say dentist so I don't end up with wooden dentures. What my dentist didn't tell me is that electric tooth brushes feel really weird in your mouth. It's like this weird unexpected vibration and my right shoulder wants to start twitching. 

Does that mean it's working? I don't know.

I guess I should have read the directions because I turned the toothbrush on before I put it in my mouth and guess what happens when you do that.

Imagine this but with toothpaste.

After I scraped the toothpaste off my face and OUT OF MY HAIR I finally got to the brushing of the teeths. The electric toothbrush has a timer so you have to brush your teeth for two whole minutes! That is like a life time. I start thinking of all things I'm going to do after brushing my teeth, I write a play in my head, I sing a really long Tori Amos song and finally I'm done brushing my teeth. I haven't even got to flossing.

This is a lot of work dentist. I better have the best teeth you've ever seen at my next cleaning.

I mistakenly thought today was a bad day.

Wake up at 6:15 a.m. which is way too early for me. The birds were all chirping like "good morning! It's such a lovely birdie morning. CHIRP CHIRP!" I do not understand how they can sound so happy when it is so cold. Tell me your secrets birds, but later in the morning when I'm awake.

Get on the T and I get a seat because it's so early. Point to the good day column.

Arrive at my dentist's office at 7:30 and have teeth drilled. Annoyed at myself for making a dental appointment so early. Get into the office and realize I can't eat breakfast because I can't feel my face. This cancels out the seat on the T.

Lunch time comes and I can feel my face again! Time to stuff it with a FREE birthday burrito from Boloco. I order a gigantic summer burrito. One burrito point in the good day column.

Client calls at 5 and I stay late speaking to the client. I'm ok with this because I only stay 10 minutes later.

Walk through Copley and see there is going to be a new hot pot restaurant opening. One chopstick point for hot pot!!

Get to the T and the B line is packed. No surprise but still annoyed. But wait! A B line train comes right after the packed one and someone gets off the next stop giving up their seat. I had a seat on the B line at 5:20 p.m. Put this one down in the history books! One wiggle room point for getting on the train and one buttocks point for the seat.

So if you're keep track that's

-1 waking up early point
+1 buttocks point
-1 drilling point
-1 face numb can't eat point
+1 burrito magic point
+1 chopstick point
+1 wiggle room point
+1 buttocks point

I'm not too good at math but I think this equates to an overall ok day.

Teeth talk, thoughts on family and winter on Boylston Street

Today was the first visit for the start of my dental work. The red areas below are what they are filling due to erosion. I had the left side worked on which is on the right side of this picture.

Longest two hours of my life! I have a temporary inlay for now which looks kind of funky (it's very very white) but it's in the back of mouth so you can't really tell. My mouth is still a little sore but I ate some ice cream and chicken nuggets (not together) and now I feel a little better.

After the dentist I went to visit my grandmother with my mother. Although this is my father's mother, my mom still visits which I think is nice. My parents divorced when I was about five but I have always been close to my father's side of the family. My mother and my grandparents made an effort to make sure we saw each other. My mom is pretty much the best.

When my mom was driving me back home we talked about how my grandmother is still hanging in there despite everything she's been through (major stroke follow by mini seizures) and how there's nothing we can do once we get old. At some point you're not going to be who you were, your body or mind will start to betray you. I can't picture my mother or even myself like that, but then again I could have said the same thing about my grandmother two years ago. Her mind is still there, I'm thankful that she knows who we are but it's tough seeing how small and frail she looks.

I'm sure you've had enough of teeth and heavy family talk so here's some pictures of the cats and Boylston Street.

Because I totally have 10,000.00 to spend on dental work

I went to the dentist today and everything seemed to be going well. I have no cavities and my gums and roots look fine. All great news, until my dentist gives me the bad news. Five of my back teeth are very work down due to acid erosion. Don't worry I'm not bulimic or anything, good old acid reflux is to blame apparently. They can do a permanent ceramic partial crown but that will cost 2,000.00 a tooth! I have five teeth that need it done. Now I'm not good at math but I'm good at realizing that's a lot of freaking money.

My dentist is now going to write a letter to my insurance company basically telling them why they should cover this. Most likely insurance will come back and say no, because we're an insurance company and would rather let your teeth erode away and have very expensive root canals and teeth implants in the future. Yes, that makes total sense.

So I guess the dentist was a win lose lose lose lose lose situation today.