I was so bummed out yesterday after the dentist appointment and also because of extreme lack of sleep from getting up at 5:30am to go to Albuquerque both for the dentist appointment and a 9:30am Acura service appointment.
I always get this feeling about my dentist that even though he is nice to my face that he thinks I'm a hysterical female behind my back. Yesterday I caught a fleeting glimpse of him making an exasperated, impatient face behind my back. Maybe it's not against me personally and he's just overworked and finds females are fair game to take out his job frustration on. He's always super nice to my face but I think he feels like I'm complaining too much about the fit of my splint that I wear at night. I can't help it that it was fitting perfectly at night and then the last visit when he adjusted it, it caused my teeth to clamp together on my right side and made my right bottom tooth sore. He did another adjustment yesterday and I'm still determining if it works or not. I was too chicken to try sleeping last night on my right side. Ever since the last adjustment when the tooth got sore, I switched to sleeping on my left side until I could get in to see him yesterday.
Another thing that pisses me off is that each time I pay over $100 for these adjustments. It's like I might as well pay $1000 (I'm guessing!) all at once for a new splint rather than slowly dribbling money away on these adjustments.
Saying all that, I still think that he's a good dentist. I just wish he would move to Santa Fe or Los Alamos!
We skipped the Betty Ehart Senior Center hike today because I could not bear the thought of getting up at 6am to get ready for it. I missed going on it but was happy to sleep in.
Lots of good food shopping at Vitamin Cottage in Santa Fe. Now that I'm cutting back on nuts, I need to add back some more whole grains so I bought some bread, crisp bread, rice, cooked cereal, and dried cereal. I also bought some taste enhancers like gomasio, ginger, low fat ginger vinaigrette, red curry paste, and black bean dip.
Tomorrow we hike as we're all shopped out for the meantime.
The doctor thought that Norm's rash, which has basically faded, was from contact with an unknown plant allergen. I don't think we have bedbugs after all.