For those of you who don't know, I have four fake front teeth. See, I was a stupid 7-year-old once, and I thought I was a daredevil. There was this hill in my neighborhood in St. Louis that we all thought was huge. We liked to ride our bikes down it, and I liked doing it as fast as possible. One day, with my friend Laura (the one whose wedding I just went to in St. Louis), I rode down that hill with my eyes closed--for extra adventure!--and I'm still suffering the wrath of that adventure 21 years later.
I knocked out a permanent front tooth that day. An oral surgeron put it back in. About 7 years later, they took it out again for good, and I had a perfectly good bridge. To make a long story shorter, I ended up with a cracked root and a couple other cracked teeth. In the past couple years, I've had three more front teeth extracted and two implants put it. It's always fun talking about my implants around people when they don't know I'm talking about teeth. HA!
Today was a milestone of sorts. Since I had to let the implants heal and fuse to bone for several months, I've had a kinda gimpy temporary bridge. Today I went to the dentist and got fitted with my permanent bridge. In another week, I'll have it in my mouth for good. Then, if the tooth fairy smiles down on me, I will be through with all of this tooth business for good.
On a completely different subject, I've been asked by a British coworker to write a front-page introduction for a technical writing newsletter that's distributed worldwide to tech writers in my company. I agreed. But now I need something clever to say so that I'm not just another boring newsletter contributor. Let me know if you have any ideas.
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