You know what I've already decided? That 2010 is gonna be a pisser of a year. We started out here in deep south Mississippi with sustained sub-freezing weather that has broken 30 year records. Hey God, Mother Nature, etc., if I wanted to live in the tundra I'd be in Alaska. Let's get this fixed and back to normal, okay?

Then Thursday a crown on an incisor became loose and I found out that every dentist in south Mississippi is CLOSED on Fridays. When did dentists start closing on Friday's? The crown was so wriggly I was apprehensive that I might swallow it with a drink of water or inhale it while I slept. I had taken hold of it with a Kleenex and pulled but it wouldn't come out. By sheer coincidence an acquaintance phoned and she said there was a dentist open just 20 miles away.

I phoned and the nurse said come in at 1pm and they'd work me in. Relief. The dentist was an amiable man, I liked him a lot right away. But he couldn't get the crown off by tugging on it. X-ray done. He then novocained it and HAMMERED it off as a last recourse. It sounded like a jackhammer. Luckily he got the crown off without breaking it and cemented everything back on. I was surprised it had been so loose yet refused to come off easily. Sigh.

I'm telling y'all, 2010 is gonna be a pisser.

susil