Good Day "33"

Hi all,

Gee Cathy it seems you're having bad time. Wow, nasty. I was lucky 20 years ago I had all my teeth pulled in one go - under general anaesthetic. The way to go I reckon because when i woke up the dentures were in already and I have never looked back. Never had toothache again!

Bt the way James me old son, the crator is nGorongoro, just for the record and there endest the lesson for today. Hope you're well and thriving.

Cheers folks.

Hi Syd, good to see you!! Hope all is going well down there in the South!  20 years ago I would love to have the same happen - nowadays I avoid hospitals as I would a prison!!

Hehehe! Like the geography lesson! 

it is one of the most common prescription medications most dentist use for gum disease..it is called Chlorhexidine Gluconate Oral mouth wash...and it reduces your gum swelling by disinfectingting and shrinking your tiiny blood vessels in your gums. He will only give me one bottle of it at an time to use just before the surgery starts as he preps me off some of my heart medications, such as my blood thinners. An good doctor is someone that knows the cure..not just  the big high medical fee's. He wasn' t pulling out just an tooth..he was doing that also..but along with it came some bridgework under for the crown that was also imbedded next to my jaw bone..or in it also. I guess I can tell you all now, as this dentist is dead now as an person...he dentist office no longer exists..Dr. George Casterline was drunk...the day I went in to see him for dental work. he had one of the best reputations in town for dentistry...which I think got ot his head because he was so popular perhaps. His sister was the chairman of the board of our local Community College and his family were well respected..and popular. My problem with my teeth comes

from him filling them as an child and never takig out the root canals.

for years they were laying there decaying until later on one day with my teeth always hurting...I would go into another dentist..whom lifted

off the filling off my tooth to have pus and infection fly out across

the both of us...it's then he gave me an better x-ray and found outI'd never had any root canals taken out. For one year I was going to an specialist monthly as they cleaned this infection out o fmy mouth and stopped it from going into my jaw bone, which they saidmight of been had to be removed if they coulnd't stop it in time. But before even this...I wen tto see Casterline one day for an wisom tooth extraction..he arrived semi-drunk...when he went to shoot the novicaine in my mouth...I don't think he hit the nerve as he did an blood vessel. fro th emost part..he extracted that tooth without me being under pain killer...he stopped when he noticed the tears in myeyes and shot me again with novicane..this time it worked...by then most of the grueling work was done though.  I got up from teh dental chiar and he had me sitting out in the front office for an bit and I went to pay for my dental work, and fainted cold out across his filing cabinet on the hard floor. I had never fainted in my life up until then. He todl me it was probably an reaction from having the dental work done...I don't think so...it was probaly from the first shot goinginto my blood vessels instead of my nerve. this is an small town...you don't get away living here if you make "waves" against one of the more respected individuals...for shoddy work.  So I let it go...and of course later on would be the root canal problem. So when I went into this oral surgeon...and the dentist whom did the bridgework told me when he put it in..it would NEVER have to come out again...sent me to this oral surgeon, expecting problems. By then my sister in-law's neice has went to her town dentist...to end up coming home and drying there on the floor from an brain annuisum..though her mother sent her by helicopter to the University of Seattle and ended up having to pull her off life saving devices so she could die. By the time I first met this dentist...I was figuring on having an hell of an time from the bridgework...so badly, he took time out to stop and talk to me about this..he said I was holding my breathe out of anxiety an not breathing...as an "Natual" reaction..to what he thought was probably pain...well, it was...all this crap all these years I had beenmade to go through...besides "Mary's" death.  I told him about Mary's death and of course I am also what is called an "sensitive" also being somewhat psychic. When I have my teeth drilled on...I feel like the vibrations are going to "blow my ears off" to say it nicely....it is unusally an high ptiched " screaming" to me.  My regular dentist puts an sensing device in my mouth and monitors what I am feeling...and stops the drilling when it gets so high, I can't hardly take the noise any longer....so the drilling is an longer process. But you know..Ihate to be an complainer. this doctor has been good to me. I have no idea if any of this has any affect on me as to why I have heart problems to begin with...though I doubt it. My mother died accordling to her

autopsy because one of her arteries had closed shut...simliar to what

my cardiologist checked out that saved my life. My mother spent

23 days in the hospital...dying...beng shocked back to life...dying...

having her chest opened up and her heart messaged...dying...and all the time they insisted she needed an Pace-maker...never cleanign out her arteries...if that's what seh died from. In short she was slowly tortured to death...because someone decided she needed an pace maker. Dad's insturance gave her the best of anything they wanted to do to her...it paid 100 per cent...no questions asked. So they werebasically "free" to pull off an expenisve thing they wanted to do to her to keep her alive. But it didn't stop there..she was getting weaker and weaker all th time..and so they decided she had to go to the big hospital across town in Portland..legacy...but she she was so weak...she never began to make it through surgery...adn this time they couldn't revive her. Nothing worked. She was finally releived of her torturers.... in the name of medical science. The funeral home called me on mother and aasked me what killed her, that they could not even use the clothing I had taken to them because her chest  was purple blue and yellow when she arrived from the hospital. It was by then, dad had given her heart to the name of more reserach work. to the heart doctors. For this an other descrepenticeis of health...we all now get to file bankruptcy most the time these days. My son will probably never have an house of his own that he doesn't "rent"....and they are seeing ot it...that this house I live in my never be his either by inheritence.  Now you all know the works of what I claim to be "Satan" at hsi finest rendering of Hell....though it may not be him...just simply people doing an bad job for an high price.  For some reason much of this surrounds the Catholics also...or are they witches and warlocks in desguise?...or just plain totally stuipd people....but then again...any health facitlity that doesn't do things right the first time around..... fits into this category also. It is near to impossible to sue an doctor in this state...they have an ice way of finding something you as an pateint did wrong....and as an patient..it's easy to do something wrong...after all..your not the doctor to begin with. But it woulndt' probably matter if you were either. It is at sometime.... our lives are always in the hands of someone else...I guess so "god" can judge these others for their compassion...not in letting them die...but in letting them live...under painless circumstances...with no suffering. Sooner or later we all cross over. But we can't do the work on the other side... that we can on this side..we too will be an "energy form" and not physical. For many of us.... our redeeming actions to our soul growth and spirit reaquires the physical element...in an healthy manner. Singing, helping, running in an job a thon...Red Cross work in time of emergenciesall take physical action to do accomplish them. Tha tis why sucide iswrong..it takes you out of the very element to save yourself..physical material earth. As our guides and angels are an uplifting spirit of goodwill an dunderstanding toward us..and help us achieve here on earth...they can not be us. We must be the best we can be..if we understand what that is in life. I am done for now with my jibber jabber. I was lucky last week to catch what I think was anpossible problem with the lisinopril and potassium toxic mix on my own...my doctor didnt' tell me it could happen. Maybe he doesn't know it can happen. he told me the first time I had an proble with my heart that I was lucky plain lucky that I went to teh hospital when I did and expecting another smart ass young guy that "knows it all" I found out he knew his doctoring then. How long we can survive doing the "right things" for each other.... I have no idea....maybe that ended just recently with the medications.  As for my niece that passed away..she was an known drinker..and drug abuser at times...maybe that had something to do with her dying...maybe not. Maybe ti as simply an physical thing also. I think I'm well over do for an decent vacation these days...esp when I bear my morbid soul to everyone.

My mouth has been hurting me for some time now, I have no denatl benefits...I only have the antiibiotics from the dentist...my cardioligst wroke down in the lab report I don't  need them...that's not true...but I'm not an junkie anyway when it comes to drugs. When I was an little kid, I use to cry half an hour to be made to take an asprin...my mother then because of my weight problem would make me go to diet doctors...I'd hide the pills, flush them down the toliet..because I never liked taking pills. So for me to take pills these days.. it an real feat on behalf of the medical industry...I expect them to be few and worthy to take....they are too expenisve. My life suffers from thier expense.  My dad told me before he died..that someday I would also be forced to take drugs I could not readily get off of..that would most likely kill me.... as his drug interaction did him. I told dad that Iprobably would complie with that then, and I didn't see why he did...as he knew.... I was always an bit of rebel and independent. He keeld over dead within two days later. Instantly...whcih means one drug incompaitble.... finally met up with the other one. Enough about death...an life....and its problems. I think I'll go on the vacation though and see if I can stop my rattling on. My medical personnel ...most llikely don't care for it...and they aren't  the ones really affected by their decisions.... are they.

I can see I had unsolicited help in the posting prior...so it looks really scrambled and illogical...just the way they want it...easily shot down in it's incoherence.... Heh? 

Top of the morning to you all - and the rest of the day to meself.

You're right Cathy, hospitals are to be avoided if possible. I have been blessed to only have needed to be hospitalised 4 times in my life. I wasn't even born in one!

The last time I spent any length of time in a hospital it was to watch my wife pass away. Bad memories!

As for medical check-ups, I tend to regard them in the same way as dealing with my car. That is, if there is nothing wrong with it I don't take it to a mechanic. I see doctors when all else fails and there is a lot one can do for one's self in terms of alternative medication.

Have a good day all.

Hi everyone, hope you are having a really great day and planning a wonderful weekend too.

Yep Syd.  Whole-heartedly agree and with each passing year, even more so!!  Mind you it sounds like all those 1st world countries are no better off regarding health care than we are - scares you to death!!

Hello everybody.  Nice to see you in real time for a change.

I just skimmed thru the last few pages of this thread - sorry to hear about your health and dental issues, Cathy.  Hope you're on the mend.  I'll be praying for you.

And Syd, it was great to hear about your trip to Old Blighty and your visit with Anna and Ron.  My husband David and I has the privelege 3 years ago, so we're way overdue for another visit.

Hope all is well with you all.

Lovely to see you too, Cathy.  Everything's fine here, apart from a bit of age-related health conditions, but more of an annoyance than anything else.  Very busy at my job, I'm off work today because I had my 40 hours in by Tuesday this week.  Nice to be able to "chat," too.  That's one reason I don't come around here as often as I used to.  Everybody's in bed when I am able to be here and vice versa.  It's 1:18 PM here right now.