Jed Reformed

My luck seems to be holding fast. What on earth did I do to deserve this? I can’t think of a thing, but I am going to savor this small spate of good fortune while it lasts. Well, I had another trip out to Santee and the dentist today. More fillings! Today was a bright shiny new day in the land of big trucks--either somebody in the office has been reading my blog or people there are just tired of magazines about celebrities and cars and hunting. Today the racks sported copies of Time, Newsweek, and US News. A veritable smorgasbord of information! And on the way home, my spirits were uplifted by a car that was plastered with Navy stickers, but after it passed me, I also saw a MoveOn “Defend America-Defeat Bush!” sticker on the back bumper. That will teach me to subscribe to stereotypes. I have seen the light, and it is pretty!

Here’s where my luck changed from being strictly automotive and traffic-related: I had to get two more fillings today (not too lucky there) and was noticing that he did much less drilling. That made me happy, and much more comfy, too. I thought that these must have been much more shallow cavities than my previous ones. However, when I went to pay, she said, “Okay, so for two white fillings, that’s 90 bucks!” What? I told her that I had thought I was getting the silver ones, because I had asked for them (way cheaper, you know), and she went to check out the situation. She came back, saying that yes, indeed, I did now have two white fillings, but since I had requested silver, that was all she would charge me for. Which came to a grand total of 15 dollars. Hallelujah! So now I have some spiffy new fillings that are much much more comfortable than those nasty silver ones, and for hardly any money at all. Hooray for office confusion!

My dental tip for the day: in case you ever have to get fillings, I highly suggest that you get the white ones if you can afford it--and not for cosmetic reasons. What they didn’t tell me in the beginning is that for white fillings they drill much less of your tooth out, since the white stuff is kind of sticky and adheres to the tooth all by itself. It's good to keep as much of your teeth as possible! Plus, the white stuff doesn’t conduct heat and cold so you won’t have to deal with nasty shocks for months afterward like you do with the silver ones. Hooray for white fillings! Hooray for the good luck fairy! And to further extend my blissfest, my disgustingly cute cat is lying across my shoulders as I type this, stretching her paws down in front of my face and purring loudly in my ear.