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[billie]

Good luck with the MRIs k3am and 2chatter!!

Yay akafred!

[akafred]

Jun 29, 2017 19:58:09 GMT -5 billie said:

Good luck with the MRIs k3am and 2chatter!!

Yay akafred!

It feels so petty next to kids with MRIs. But it has been such a source of stress. My realtor had me so stressed over it. He thought it was 10-20k overpriced. I wonder what the final appraisal was. But I probably will never find out.

[saraml13]

k3am do ILs still call DS by his full name that you hate, or did they finally give in to calling him the same name you use?

[k3am]

saraml13, they are inconsistent. I'm trying to give it to the wind.

[grover]

2chatter, sounds similar to the tooth work I had done. Are they hooking the tooth to the braces with a chain?

[2chatter]

grover - yes! It sounds crazy to me?? And painful??

[grover]

Jun 29, 2017 21:42:28 GMT -5 2chatter said:

grover - yes! It sounds crazy to me?? And painful??

I hated the oral surgeon, because when I saw him as a 5th grader to get 5 baby teeth pulled, he made fun of me because I was crying/laughing from the laughing gas. So seeing him for the surgery as a sophomore in high school was not something I wanted to do.

For me, it was my eye teeth. They were just under my nasal cavity. There was a lot of blood, so I did have to go back to the oral surgeon two more times to reattach the brace to the two teeth due to them not attaching well originally bc of the blood.

The first few adjustments at the orthodontist were rough, not going to lie. I would load up on as much ibuprofen as I could beforehand, and then got a milkshake after every chain tightening appointment (If I wore the shirt I got from the orthodontist he'd give me a McDonald's $1 coupon. Sometimes I'd get two of them if I groaned excessively about the pain lol).

I did have to get another full set then a top only set of braces after the fact. But my eye teeth would not stay put with just the night time retainer. (My original mouth was really bad to begin with, my orthodontist said my mouth was his most difficult in all of his years practicing. I even got those two following sets of braces free.) So now I have two permanent retainers behind the top and bottom front teeth and two separate, permanent, small retainers on the front of my teeth, basically holding the eye teeth to the tooth next to them so they won't rotate out of place.

Sorry for the novel! While I hated all the appointments at the time, I do like my smile now, even with the two visible retainers.

[rere]

So I spent most of the day trying to get my floor ordered while simultaneously trying to get ready for a meeting with the judge executive. By the time I get home, I pour a big glass of wine and have it down by 5. Then Dh mentions that I have to have all of the food out of the pantry so they can work in the kitchen tomorrow, and then leaves for work. Nice.

[2chatter]

grover - what an awful experience - pain is one thing but being laughed at is terrible.

DD can't have any commercial milkshakes that we have found, so it sounds like I will need to plan extra time to make them at home!

[k3am]

Jun 29, 2017 20:26:18 GMT -5 akafred said:

Jun 29, 2017 19:58:09 GMT -5 billie said:

Good luck with the MRIs k3am and 2chatter !!

Yay akafred !

It feels so petty next to kids with MRIs. But it has been such a source of stress. My realtor had me so stressed over it. He thought it was 10-20k overpriced. I wonder what the final appraisal was. But I probably will never find out.

It's not pain olympics! Your most stressful thing in your life is always going to be stressful, and it's allowed to be. There's no point in comparing. 

[giddyup]

2chatter- I had the same surgery and braces with chains as a kid as well. In 9th grade my two canines were still baby teeth. So they pulled the baby teeth, connected brackets to the adult teeth up in my gums and pulled them down with chains. It was not pleasant and the tightening/cutting a link off the chain every couple weeks would make me sore, but I have no lasting fear of the dentist or anything. But when he's done make him wear the retainer!!! Twenty years later and here I am doing invisalign trying to get my teeth straight again! Except this time I have to pay for it!

[akafred]

Jun 30, 2017 7:34:46 GMT -5 rere said:

So I spent most of the day trying to get my floor ordered while simultaneously trying to get ready for a meeting with the judge executive. By the time I get home, I pour a big glass of wine and have it down by 5. Then Dh mentions that I have to have all of the food out of the pantry so they can work in the kitchen tomorrow, and then leaves for work. Nice.

I feel like your avatar is exactly how I would look if DH said that to me.

[supertrooper1]

On Monday was my wedding anniversary and DH spent the day at his worker's house working in her yard. He made it home in time for our babysitter and dinner. He spent part of dinner on his phone texting with his coworker. If the food and drinks hadn't been so good, I would have been more upset. But what really pissed me off was that on the way to the restaurant, he said he was done because her HS/college age boys spent the day in the house instead of helping. Then because she sent a text and asked him to come back, he had the balls to ask me during dinner if he could go back when I got home from work on Tuesday. I agreed, even though I told him I was pissed since he said it was only going to be a couple of hours of spraying but turned into over 10 hours of work.

I was at home with DS on Tuesday when DH calls and said he had an accident with his chainsaw at her house. I could barely hear him, so the sheriff that was the first responder called me back. He said it was superficial but DH still needed to go to the ER for stitches. The sheriff asked if I was going to "come home" so I could take DH to the ER. Talk about embarrassing for me to tell him that wasn't my house. She wasn't home at the time, but her BIL had just stopped by and he took DH to the ER. I raced to the hospital 30 minutes away only to sit there for 4 hours with a cranky tired kid. It was very busy. H ended up with 8 stitches in his thigh. So 2chatter, this is why karma is a bitch.

On the way to the ER, his coworker sent me a text asking if she could watch DS while we were at the ER. It took a lot of self restraint not to text back, "no bitch you've done enough." She sent several more texts asked how things were going that I ignored. She was worried that I was mad and wouldn't let DH go over and help her anymore. This is even messing up our vacation because H will have to be home to get his stitches out.

[callmekd]

supertrooper1 I have no words. holy hell

[frozenpeas]

OMG supertrooper1, my stomach dropped when I read the word, "chainsaw". I'm so glad the injury wasn't more serious.

[2chatter]

@supertrooper - that BLOWS. She has a local BIL, and teenage sons? I don't see a need for DH to spend 10 hours doing anything.

For the stitches - you can totally have them removed on vaca. Last year DH did it, and two years ago DH did it. As we leave in two weeks, this year he's not allowed to touch tools, knives, scissors or glass until after vacation.

[twinmomma]

supertrooper1, OMG. I am so glad that the chainsaw injury wasn't worse! With all those people there to help her, I'd be having an ultimatum discussion with DH about never going over there again. That is so far beyond ok. I'm so sorry that you're dealing with this craziness!

[rere]

Jun 30, 2017 11:25:19 GMT -5 akafred said:

Jun 30, 2017 7:34:46 GMT -5 rere said:

So I spent most of the day trying to get my floor ordered while simultaneously trying to get ready for a meeting with the judge executive. By the time I get home, I pour a big glass of wine and have it down by 5. Then Dh mentions that I have to have all of the food out of the pantry so they can work in the kitchen tomorrow, and then leaves for work. Nice.

I feel like your avatar is exactly how I would look if DH said that to me.

My avatar is how I look the majority of the time.

[mustardseed2007]

OMG supertrooper1 I have no words.

2chatter, k3am, I'm wishing you all the best!!!

[mae0111]

Another leaving work update...

So I thought that I was just meeting a few friends for drinks after work. Turns out that they rented a room at a nice restaurant and bar nearby, and the company paid for open bar and appetizers for 3 hours. Two EVPs got up to speak - one that I really don't know, and another that I know really well and have worked with for my whole career there. First is a great speaker, so he did a good job. Second is not a natural speaker, has to work at it, but usually ends up doing well. His speech was great, we both ended up crying.

Overall a really nice evening. There were a few people missing, but for the most part, everyone I cared about was there. It was a great sendoff.

On to the next adventure!

[mae0111]

supertrooper1, You showed a lot more restraint than I would have. Holy crap.

[xctsclrx]

k3am , any news on your DD? I think that you were just discovering the tumor when I started posting on TCF. I am invested in her now.

[akafred]

Omg supertrooper1. How do you even trust yourself with a gun?

[k3am]

xctsclrx, no news yet. We should hear back by 7/5 at the latest. My guess is they'll make me wait until the latest.

[k3am]

News. It's a tumor, not scar tissue like they had hoped. And it's growing.

Sigh.

[vasc]

Shit k3am. I'm so sorry.

[callmekd]

Oh no k3am

[supertrooper1]

I'm sorry k3am

[akafred]

Oh, no, k3am. I am so sorry! I just "knew" it would turn out to be scar tissue. Damn.

[freezorburn]

(((k3am)))