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Whines of 2012 — Updated 12/17/2012
UPDATED: 9 September 2012 Let me count the ways the events of the past few months have screwed me. Note that there may will be additions as the weeks pass…so keep checking this article. It will be a mega-whine! First, my mother dies of a glioblastoma — brain cancer — the same disease that killed [...]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under Anxiety, Dentition, Dogs, Health, OCD, Spirituality and Being, Whines.
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The Health Care Reform That Has Yet to Happen
A plague is sweeping the nation. Three out of four Americans suffer from it. It is virulent and contagious. It destroys living tissue and bone. Bacteria at the point of infection inject their poisons into the bloodstream, exporting the destruction to other parts of the body. Cardiovascular disease, joint problems, pancreatic cancer, diabetes, asthma, osteoporosis, [...]
Posted: May 16th, 2011 under Dentition, Depression, Insurance, Psychotropics.
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Keeping Your Teeth and Your Sanity
The scariest fact is that more than 600 drugs cause dry mouth. This includes all antidepressants, anti-psychotics, anti-convulsants, and stimulants.
Posted: May 11th, 2011 under Bipolar Disorder, Dentition, Psychotropics.
Comments: 1
I write about my health because….
I do this for me, but I have no qualms if you find something for yourself here, too. I am not selfish. Accept my sharing if it helps.
Posted: April 7th, 2011 under Bipolar Disorder, Dentition, Reflections.
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Dream
After cruising the streets of Salt Lake City, I find myself in a dentist’s chair. The dentist reviews the care I’ve received from six different professionals. He focuses especially on one, whose treatments I found especially palliative. A graphic illustrates what I think was done to my mouth — the good spread clear across the [...]
Posted: June 2nd, 2010 under Dentition, Dreams.
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The Hole and the Deficit
Lately, the little and ring fingers of the left hand have balked at the simple tasks I once employed them for….Everywhere I look for shortcuts
Posted: May 31st, 2010 under Body Language, Dentition, Neurology.
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Stitches Out and A Golden Morning
Rain wet the pavement overnight. Clear sky forced a broad opening in the sky so when Lynn took me to get my stitches pulled this morning, sunlight lit the ripe grasses yellow. As we drove through Irvine, I used my unique passenger-side view to scan new developments. The strawberry fields were disappearing: a new community [...]
Posted: June 5th, 2009 under Daily Life, Dentition, Weather.
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The lone tree and rigging in the mouth
The lone tree, originally uploaded by EmperorNorton47. This is a photo1 I took on my last walk with Drake in the hills. This golden mesa kept attracting my attention but I couldn’t frame it with a wide-angle lense, so I stretched out my zoom to telephoto length. Even then, haze made the picture unpretty, so [...]
Posted: May 23rd, 2009 under Body Language, Dentition, Hikes and Trails, Photos.
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Root Canal Revealed
The procedure (which I knew well from other excursions of the same kind) involved drilling, filing out the dead nerves, the insertion of an electric probe (to measure the length of the roots?), and the final filling of the slim cavities.
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under Daily Life, Dentition.
Comments: 1
Root Canal!
Today’s fun is a root canal! First in four years! Well, that’s an improvement.
Posted: October 25th, 2006 under Dentition.
Comments: 1
The Origins of Dentistry
Dentists were well-paid medical mechanics who people feared.
Posted: April 6th, 2006 under Dentition, Fact-Dropping.
Comments: 3
My Story of Eroded Teeth
What if I had listened to the woman in television who said that I should just learn to love my teeth for how they were?
Posted: May 12th, 2005 under Dentition.
Comments: 4