I dunno, maybe. He also works on animals, specifically lame horses that have been slated to be put down. I asked how the hell he can pop a horse's back, and he said it's actually easier than a person's, because their spine spends all day being horizontal instead of having gravity compact it. He just stands on a couple bales of hay to get high enough for leverage, and *snapcracklepop* the horse is walking fine again.

We are on day 5 of snow - fairly unusual for this part of the world. I guess Cali exported all its bad weather to us. The cats have a bad case of the shack nasties and are driving me crazy. :thepain:

Throw the cats out in the snow for a few minutes - they'll sleep the rest of the day, fer sure.

Lookout -- glad you made it through okay!
My mom just had a suspected melanoma removed from the sole of her foot. They really should tell us dark-skinned folks to look out for moles on otherwise light-skinned parts of our anatomy... Hands, feet, insides of mouths (!)...

The idea of skin cancer scares the shit out of me. A colleague's father wasn't diagnosed in time because his eczema masked the condition.

My dad gets basal cells removed and biopsies done every couple of months for skin cancer on his head and shoulders. Consequences of growing up in Texas and Palm Springs/Desert.

He's lucky -- BCCs almost never metastasize to other parts of the body.

Yeah he's only had a couple melanomas pop up, but since he's in so often they were taken care of immediately. Even if not life-threatening, still has to suck getting things frozen and sliced off your skin so often.

BrianR

I had a crown done on Wednesday - my first. I won't say how much it cost but it was rather more than the Sterling equivalent of $200!
I suppose that some of that cost would be accounted for in the need to prepare my tooth, whereas that part of the procedure was already done in your case. I still don't think I got much of a bargain.

Carruthers.

Oh, all right, I give in. It was £380.:thepain:

My last dentist trip cost me £460 or thereabouts. That included an x-ray, couple of fillings, two extractions, some repair work on my veneers and deep sedation. Most of the cost was the sedation because that isn;t offered via their NHS pricing structure, but comes under their private procedures.

Glad that it's nothing major and all seems to be under control. I am in equal parts completely freaked out and fascinated/curious by how you managed to watch the procedure...

E over h.

Carruthers - mine was mostly warranty work. All I paid for was the root canal. Mexico is cheap for dentistry. If they hadn't not had the sleep guy in that day, I'd have paid another $200 to sleep through it. Money well spent, IMO. But, I survived. Again. New crown is in place and I'm feeling better.

And once again I forgot to bring a quarter so I can walk across the border. Had to mug some blind guy and sell his pencils to get money. Again. I really MUST remember to bring change when I go south. :D

How? With my exceptionally long and flexible eyestalks, of course. oooor, i held a mirror. The doc (who I like) was going out of his way to explain absolutely every detail of what he was doing before he would do it. That was really getting to me, so I told him to hand me a mirror and I'd stop him if I had a question. Kind of weird, but it worked to stop the discussion.

Just tell him, a little off the top. ;)