What do they call the event that Represents the Greatest Pain?

A root canal conjures up great feelings of pain in a short period of time. The actual pain occurs long before the oral surgery. First there is the call to get into see the dentist. You need to be persuasive. Then there is a referral to the endodontist. An endodontist charges about 1100 dollars to to one hour of work on your root canal.Thank goodness for Delta Dental. The pain of the surgery is tough...sometimes. Sometimes it is totally painless because your adrenalin has kicked in and is centered in that one spot.

At 6:30 this morning Sue had surgery for her root canal. We went to see the dentist yesterday at 4. I got to school about 15 minutes late. The office called for me to get a para to cover my class until I could get there. Everything worked out well. We are starting Fly Away Home.. about the girl and the Canada geese. If you ever want to know why they are called Canada goose or geese and not Canadian Goose or Geese check out the Gray seminars. First period I had a girl in my class that could not stop telling about what was going to happen next. I had to stomp all over her glory and tell her in no uncertain terms that there a things that you have to hold to yourself and not blurt out. She told me that is why she wanted to get out of my class. I wouldn't let her say what was the truth... oy! It did not hurt my feelings. She needs to be in my class for this and a half dozen other things she is not getting in other classes or at home.

I was scheduled to go to a workshop on health care this afternoon. I wanted to make sure that there was someone that would take my class.. and since it was only an a half a day, i waited for her to come. She arrived and I made sure that she could fire up the computer and run the movie from that. I headed down to the county schools office and joined about 35 others in learning about hospital rating systems and web resources to check to see which hospitals have low mortality rates and do the most of one procedure or anther. It is pretty fascinating. Often the hospitals that cost the most have the poorest records.. This sort of thing can empower the consumer and if we all ask the right questions then health care should improve.

It made for an very interesting Friday.

Pat