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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #30 on: September 08, 2011, 08:20:56 PM »
Quote from: centralscrewtinizer on July 24, 2011, 06:31:46 PM
Over an half year later and some encouraging progress.  My son is still seeing his first counselor and has just started a part time job in a usda lab and therefore has a gov rating, albeit the lowest.  A nice part of the deal is that it requires he maintain at least six units of courses and they will work around his college schedule. 
An even nicer part of the deal is that it evolved from community in that it was the brainchild of neighbors. 
He is looking to find an apartment in the town where he works, but transportation to Sacramento for classes will be an issue.
He remains on meds, he is glued to his computer still, and he is a night owl trying to adjust to daytime, but I am happy that he is alive and moving in positive directions.

I missed this due to VisaQuest and the ensuing jet-lag and everything else (long boring story: been sick, didn't know why until I saw the dentist last month and started on a hellacious treatment plan-OWIE, OWIE, OWIE. A lot of days I don't even boot up the computer, I feel so yuck).

I'm glad to hear that he is doing well as of 2 Aug, erm, things are still going well, right?
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #31 on: September 08, 2011, 09:27:57 PM »
Yes, still gainfully employed part-time, taking six units, seeing counselor, who I am thinking is a bust.  I had to wake him last Friday to get to class, something I detest doing, and swore I wouldn't, but I found out later he would have missed a test so my gut was right on.
He has until the end of the month to find another place to live.  I told my wife if he is still here in October (she wants to keep him and charge rent) I wouldn't be.  He actually seems to have gotten more chipper after that small ultimatum.  This morning he said, 'Dad, have I told you today that I love you?'.  When I said no, he said, good, let's keep it that way.  Heh.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #32 on: September 09, 2011, 01:36:32 PM »
CS, if he can joke he's in a good place concerning you, when they don't joke is when you know something is tilted.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #33 on: September 09, 2011, 03:50:21 PM »
Pretty much what I thought, and thank you.  And I really appreciated your response on the 'other' thread, the one where Swampman is wondering 'what the hell?'.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #34 on: September 09, 2011, 07:10:04 PM »
Quote from: centralscrewtinizer on September 09, 2011, 03:50:21 PM
Pretty much what I thought, and thank you.  And I really appreciated your response on the 'other' thread, the one where Swampman is wondering 'what the hell?'.

I'm about to move that thread, one more stupid comment from some of those ejits and I will. I don't get people, I really don't!

Erm, we are talking about the one I think we are, right? The one where I use a lot of really bad french?
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #35 on: September 09, 2011, 08:20:28 PM »
Yep, and with a really bad tooth and the kicking smoking campaign, I am amazed at your restraint, heh.  By the bye, it was just before I turned thirty that I quit smoking and it was made a little easier by the fact I was also recovering from having four wisdom teeth taken out that had been there since I was sixteen.  I also fasted for three days.  When it was all said and done, voila, no more money spent on tobacco. 
Good luck to you and my condolences. 
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #36 on: September 09, 2011, 08:24:39 PM »
Quote from: centralscrewtinizer on September 09, 2011, 08:20:28 PM
Yep, and with a really bad tooth and the kicking smoking campaign, I am amazed at your restraint, heh.  By the bye, it was just before I turned thirty that I quit smoking and it was made a little easier by the fact I was also recovering from having four wisdom teeth taken out that had been there since I was sixteen.  I also fasted for three days.  When it was all said and done, voila, no more money spent on tobacco. 
Good luck to you and my condolences.

Thank-you, and sigh, I waited 48 hours post dental work before I was out on the back porch-with a smoke.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #37 on: September 09, 2011, 08:39:57 PM »
When smoke your body uses up its stored vitamin C to defend against the toxins.  Your brain only gets about thirty percent of its usual supply of oxygen during that inhale.  You double your chances of getting ANY disease. 
I knew all that before I started smoking, and still I started.  I don't know why I treated myself so badly, but there it is, the cold hard fact that I did. 
I stopped that one, but there is a laundry list still, heh.

I had a friend who used to say, 'any coward can quit smoking, it takes a real man to face cancer'.  I laughed along with him as we lit up.  I wonder how he is doing.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #38 on: September 09, 2011, 09:15:33 PM »
I knew that too, especially about the O2. I am in total agreement, too, about how very hard it is to quit-oh wow, it's hard. The only times I had no problem were the times I knew I was pregnant-not even a chance of interest in a smoke.

Until the babies were born and healthy. Then? Oh then it was "Where is the smoking section?!"

I never smoked in the house around the children. I could go hours without one. But I always lit up when I could. Always.
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Re: When There Is No Dentist
« Reply #39 on: August 12, 2012, 09:07:48 PM »
A wee update.  My son has a part-time job in a research lab and has become a valued employee, he is going to a junior college part-time and starting to move away from studying computers to wanting to learn a little about how statistics is used to analyze research results.  He rides a bike most places, but bought a Miata.  He is renting a room in a neighbor town, but comes up for home cooking about once a week.
All is well except for one horrible happenstance.  About a week before Aurora he had his hair dyed magenta.  He seems to have survived the inevitable scrutiny without his psyche being dented.
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If we don't defend free speech, how will we know who's an asshole?

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--Frank Zappa
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