Old news/I’m very behind!

Ok, a couple weeks ago there was a team visiting (there is almost always a team visiting! Which is great in many ways, but makes it very difficult to have any sort of regularity in the kids’ class schedule!) who happened to be a medical brigade…who happened to have a few dentists, along with their pharmacists and other helpers who were doing vision tests and checking the basics, weight, temp etc….aaaannndd….i got my teeth cleaned. :/ :D <--that’s me having mixed emotions about the experience!



Again, mixed emotions. For those of you who know me and my teeth well…this was kind of a big deal!! I was a little nervous, but after a lot of prodding and questioning the dentist more than once to make sure it was “just a cleaning”, I gave in. I felt guilty getting my teeth cleaned before the kids, but he didn’t have people waiting yet and he wanted to do it then since the kids weren’t ready yet. However, by the time he got the squirty thing working and finished, our little library was full of kids ready and waiting. I felt bad for one of the girls who upon her little inspection found out that she had to get a tooth pulled. She was scared and crying with her head on the table. She wouldn’t agree to let them pull it, and bc of my first dentist experience, I was worried about her not getting it pulled. I tried to tell her it would be better if they took it out now so that it didn’t get infected and that it would hurt later if she didn’t let them take it out now. Even knowing that I lived through my teeth pullings (so far two new words in this post  ) didn’t convince her. I don’t think she ever got that thing out of there. It was great that even some of the family members got to come and get some teeth pulled that were hurting them though.




It was mmm interesting to see a pharmacy giving out all sorts of pills to 6, 7, 8 yr old children without much instruction other than take this 3 times a day.