Weekend Brief and Dental Work
Dec. 14th, 2010 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelakWas a great visit with nobody this weekend. You know who you are, obviously.
Spent Saturday sleeping in, going to Yoga, coming home. Circuit trained and used the elliptical prior to: Sunday was Lianna's visit.
Monday was my dentist appointment that I succeeded in getting under the wire before the end of year to keep my preventative insurance premium at 100% coverage.
Best thing was that I was able to schedule my FINAL crown replacement for Today. !!!
He thought I was going to have a nasty cavity underneath my crown because it was a "non precious" AKA, Not Gold, crown, from a spotty (I said this not them) DSHS clinic way back when I was 13. It's been on there for 13 years.
My gums are inflamed around where it used to be, but now it can really start to improve :D
Today, when he popped off the old crown, expecting to see some really nasty stuff - exclaimed, "this looks way better than the x-rays would have had me believe!" and then he said to the assistant, "She must have a great diet. Most people would have had serious corrosion with this kind of crown."
I walked out of the clinic with my temporary crown, and paid $16, rather than $300 - all thanks to my non existent soda habit and otherwise great food habits essentially. I was so excited.
Next week I get my new gold permanent crown placed on the 23rd. This has been the most pain free set of visits to the dentist that I can ever remember having. After 8 years of regular visits and continual maintenance and projects in my mouth, I will enter 2011 caught up on everything. For the first time in a decade.
Maybe a lot of people don't understand this feeling - but it is an amazing one. Having a history of serious perio problems (gums), I have come a long way. Having to need to replace 3 crowns around the same time wasn't exactly fun for the financial side of things, or the actual "replacing" side.
Ever since I was 13, it felt like I was constantly doing some serious uncomfortable dental work.
Today, they numbed me up and I seriously didn't feel any pain at all. Usually they have trouble numbing me up and I still feel the pain of the work. It was amazing and now I understand the experience a lot of people have in a dental chair.
One thing I'd really like to buy is a sonicare toothbrush, strongly advised by my dental clinic...
But they cost so much. It's tempting, though - to invest this way. I am also considering beginning a 30 day flossing trial. I think this could benefit me greatly, seeing as I really struggle with flossing, but am wanting to see some great boosts to my oral health. I think if I did start a 30 day floss-everyday trial, I would begin... hmm, tomorrow! Enter the New year with GREAT GUMS. :D
Another thing I haven't mentioned on my livejournal is that I have enrolled for a January-March Conversational (intro) Russian class in the U district at offered by this: http://www.seattlelanguages.com/russian.htm place. It will be Sunday afternoons, 2:30-4:30, and I couldn't be more excited. While some portion of this is Sasha's fault, not all of it is. I look forward to harassing Inna-bo-bina, and I am looking for something that is not Spanish, not the usual thing... and, just following the path with heart here, it feels like the right thing to do, and because it's such a different language, it really appeals to me. I also can't get enough of listening to my Russian friends speak it. I'm sort of drawn to the sounds the language itself has. So, why not go for it!? I'm already booked for it!!! Besides. If I'm going to have a few Russian connections, I might as well use them to help me become bi-lingual. I know kindergarten Spanish (took I and II in High school) but... to be honest, I wasn't that passionate about it. So this time I'm going with the path with heart on it ;)
Oh yeah - and I found a free "Runner's Self Defense" workshop to go to tomorrow night, and I think that's awesome! I'm a runner and I love self defense, so I'll be glad to go get some more material for my bag of tools!!! And no. I wasn't referring to dirty tools...
-Angela
Spent Saturday sleeping in, going to Yoga, coming home. Circuit trained and used the elliptical prior to: Sunday was Lianna's visit.
Monday was my dentist appointment that I succeeded in getting under the wire before the end of year to keep my preventative insurance premium at 100% coverage.
Best thing was that I was able to schedule my FINAL crown replacement for Today. !!!
He thought I was going to have a nasty cavity underneath my crown because it was a "non precious" AKA, Not Gold, crown, from a spotty (I said this not them) DSHS clinic way back when I was 13. It's been on there for 13 years.
My gums are inflamed around where it used to be, but now it can really start to improve :D
Today, when he popped off the old crown, expecting to see some really nasty stuff - exclaimed, "this looks way better than the x-rays would have had me believe!" and then he said to the assistant, "She must have a great diet. Most people would have had serious corrosion with this kind of crown."
I walked out of the clinic with my temporary crown, and paid $16, rather than $300 - all thanks to my non existent soda habit and otherwise great food habits essentially. I was so excited.
Next week I get my new gold permanent crown placed on the 23rd. This has been the most pain free set of visits to the dentist that I can ever remember having. After 8 years of regular visits and continual maintenance and projects in my mouth, I will enter 2011 caught up on everything. For the first time in a decade.
Maybe a lot of people don't understand this feeling - but it is an amazing one. Having a history of serious perio problems (gums), I have come a long way. Having to need to replace 3 crowns around the same time wasn't exactly fun for the financial side of things, or the actual "replacing" side.
Ever since I was 13, it felt like I was constantly doing some serious uncomfortable dental work.
Today, they numbed me up and I seriously didn't feel any pain at all. Usually they have trouble numbing me up and I still feel the pain of the work. It was amazing and now I understand the experience a lot of people have in a dental chair.
One thing I'd really like to buy is a sonicare toothbrush, strongly advised by my dental clinic...
But they cost so much. It's tempting, though - to invest this way. I am also considering beginning a 30 day flossing trial. I think this could benefit me greatly, seeing as I really struggle with flossing, but am wanting to see some great boosts to my oral health. I think if I did start a 30 day floss-everyday trial, I would begin... hmm, tomorrow! Enter the New year with GREAT GUMS. :D
Another thing I haven't mentioned on my livejournal is that I have enrolled for a January-March Conversational (intro) Russian class in the U district at offered by this: http://www.seattlelanguages.com/russian.htm place. It will be Sunday afternoons, 2:30-4:30, and I couldn't be more excited. While some portion of this is Sasha's fault, not all of it is. I look forward to harassing Inna-bo-bina, and I am looking for something that is not Spanish, not the usual thing... and, just following the path with heart here, it feels like the right thing to do, and because it's such a different language, it really appeals to me. I also can't get enough of listening to my Russian friends speak it. I'm sort of drawn to the sounds the language itself has. So, why not go for it!? I'm already booked for it!!! Besides. If I'm going to have a few Russian connections, I might as well use them to help me become bi-lingual. I know kindergarten Spanish (took I and II in High school) but... to be honest, I wasn't that passionate about it. So this time I'm going with the path with heart on it ;)
Oh yeah - and I found a free "Runner's Self Defense" workshop to go to tomorrow night, and I think that's awesome! I'm a runner and I love self defense, so I'll be glad to go get some more material for my bag of tools!!! And no. I wasn't referring to dirty tools...
-Angela
