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You’ll Be a Dentist!

Posted in Musings and Epiphanies, tagged , , , on June 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Be a dentist…

I love going to the dentist.  The song from Little Shop of Horrors is one of my favorites.  I’ve never been bothered by any of the lovely dental work I’ve had, including having wisdom teeth removed or root canals.  I got my “adult” teeth early.  When I was 12, the dentist (who clearly hadn’t read my chart) asked how I liked driving.  I said I didn’t drive because I was only 12.  He thought because of the wisdom teeth I was older.

Younger son had a follow up visit at the dentist on Friday.  Six months ago he had his first root canal (yep, at the tender age of seven-he was completely unfazed by this).  Still, he needed four more fillings.  Younger son sat in the chair and asked his questions about the equipment.  (He enjoys going to the dentist too.)  The dentist came in and started poking at the cavities, asking if it hurt, and younger son repeatedly said it didn’t hurt.  She opted to take another x-ray before doing the fillings because it should have hurt when she poked.  She came back in and told me she wasn’t doing any more fillings on his upper molars and was going to pull one of the teeth instead.  She kept referring to the x-ray, but I wasn’t getting it.

Finally, the dentist explained the two rows of teeth I was looking at.  The bottom row were not his bottom teeth but his baby molars being pushed out by the adult molars making the top row.  The nerves had already been wiped out by the adult molars.  The pressure of the adult molars is what caused the pain when he chewed, not the cavities.  The dentist couldn’t believe that in only six months time younger son’s adult molars had shown up.  I told her about my dental development and she said he has my teeth.

Well, one extraction later, younger son expressed surprise when the dentist told him he was all done and could have ice cream for dinner.  Boy, did he milk that.  He has to return in two weeks to check the left side of his mouth.  Soon, he’ll have shiny new molars and we told him, these are the last ones so take care of them.

The dentist couldn’t believe a seven year old boy is getting his adult molars.  Younger son is enjoying the fact that he freaked out the dentist just a little bit.

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Younger Son and Swedish Fish

Posted in Musings and Epiphanies, tagged , , , on March 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Younger son has passed the one year mark for the tics.  We’ve been using orthomolecular therapy for the Tourette Syndrome and it seems to be having a very positive effect.  There are still facial tics and, as I found out at parent-teacher conferences this evening, the arm tics are still present.   Still the tics have been reduced greatly.  He feels a lot better and his arms don’t hurt as much because of the reduction in quantity and severity of the tics, so yea!

Younger son had his first session with the cognitive behavioral psychologist today.  He really connected with the doctor.  The session went very well and the doctor helped him with deep breathing exercises and encouraged him to keep using his pockets trick.  He has to go once a week for the next three weeks.  There will be much to coordinate at work tomorrow with my calendar!

Younger son really expressed himself so beautifully during the session.  It seems he has a lot of ideas and feelings about his older brother.  Things Hubby and I have not been privy to, but with that neutral third party, he feels comfortable opening the conversation.  I am impressed with how eloquently younger son expresses himself.  He is so wonderfully thoughtful and chooses his words with such care.  I am in awe of him.  He embraces each new doctor and office with an open mind.  He tries it and then we talk about it after to see how he really felt about it.  He doesn’t hold back-in his like or dislike.  And a tradition began after the appointment.  He chose Swedish Fish from the vending machine.  He asked if he gets those after each appointment.  Perhaps that’s why he wants to go again.  Oh, he is my beautiful boy.   246

Close your eyes
Have no fear
The monster’s gone
He’s on the run and your daddy’s here

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It’s getting better and better

Out on the ocean sailing away
I can hardly wait
To see you come of age
But I guess we’ll both just have to be patient
‘Cause it’s a long way to go
A hard row to hoe
Yes it’s a long way to go
But in the meantime

Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you’re busy making other plans

Before you go to sleep
Say a little prayer
Every day in every way
It’s getting better and better

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful boy
Darling, darling, darling
Darling H

-John Lennon

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