Comments on: Thank Goodness for Socialized Medicine http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/ I'm the scofflaw in your mother'hood Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:45:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Kate http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-18148 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:22:15 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-18148 Ew ew ew and super ew, I hate the wiggly teeth, urgh makes me crigne just thinking about it. Fortunately we have a Pippin leader who is quite happy to assist in their removal so I have her on speed dial for all teeth incidents! Ew ew ew and super ew, I hate the wiggly teeth, urgh makes me crigne just thinking about it. Fortunately we have a Pippin leader who is quite happy to assist in their removal so I have her on speed dial for all teeth incidents!

]]> by: Liz http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-15278 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:24:20 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-15278 I can't wait for the molars to come out.....We spent a week at Disney World with a front tooth that twisted aaaaallllll the way around because she thought the tooth fairy wouldn't know how to find her in a hotel! Just imagine the pictures from that trip, if you will....A mini Nanny McFee for all the world to see :-) I can’t wait for the molars to come out…..We spent a week at Disney World with a front tooth that twisted aaaaallllll the way around because she thought the tooth fairy wouldn’t know how to find her in a hotel! Just imagine the pictures from that trip, if you will….A mini Nanny McFee for all the world to see :-)

]]> by: landismom http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-15118 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:27:17 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-15118 Glad you didn't ignore it. We had a kid-abscess at one point. Not fun. Better safe than sorry, is all I'm saying. Glad you didn’t ignore it. We had a kid-abscess at one point. Not fun.

Better safe than sorry, is all I’m saying.

]]> by: Shayna http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14939 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:03:20 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14939 It's OK, Kim. You know you would have felt AWFUL if the opposite happened--there was something really serious and you just waved it off as nothing and then infection or abscess followed! I hate seeing teeth bleed too, by the way and I don't think my mother kept our teeth either (where do you keep them...and why?). To convince you that your fears were TOTALLY founded, after I had oral surgery to removed embedded wisdom teeth when I was 16, I felt something sharp and foreign in the gum during the week of recovery. I told my oral surgeon who ignored me and told me I was fine, until I came in to have packing/stitches removed. Then, when I pointed it out again, he quickly took some sort of grasper/pincer thing and without warning, yanked something from my mouth (yes, it hurt) and disposed of it very quickly. How shady is that? I have to say that you still win with the taking your own X-rays, though (is that legal?)! It’s OK, Kim. You know you would have felt AWFUL if the opposite happened–there was something really serious and you just waved it off as nothing and then infection or abscess followed! I hate seeing teeth bleed too, by the way and I don’t think my mother kept our teeth either (where do you keep them…and why?). To convince you that your fears were TOTALLY founded, after I had oral surgery to removed embedded wisdom teeth when I was 16, I felt something sharp and foreign in the gum during the week of recovery. I told my oral surgeon who ignored me and told me I was fine, until I came in to have packing/stitches removed. Then, when I pointed it out again, he quickly took some sort of grasper/pincer thing and without warning, yanked something from my mouth (yes, it hurt) and disposed of it very quickly. How shady is that? I have to say that you still win with the taking your own X-rays, though (is that legal?)!

]]> by: graceyface http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14914 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:05:18 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14914 what would you do with it if you kept it? frame it? show it to visitors? it is kind of an obligation, though. You can even get those little tooth shaped pots to keep them in. my mother always got freaked out by loose teeth too: i ended up calling my dad on the other side of the country every time i had a wobbly tooth so he could talk me through removing it. good times, indeed. what would you do with it if you kept it? frame it? show it to visitors? it is kind of an obligation, though. You can even get those little tooth shaped pots to keep them in.
my mother always got freaked out by loose teeth too: i ended up calling my dad on the other side of the country every time i had a wobbly tooth so he could talk me through removing it. good times, indeed.

]]> by: Lady M http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14858 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:26:23 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14858 Well, that's a good piece of information to file away. Don't keep the teeth. I kept mine in a little jar (the tooth fairy didn't take my teeth, an idiosyncrasy of my parents), and then you end up having to keep them forever. Well, that’s a good piece of information to file away.

Don’t keep the teeth. I kept mine in a little jar (the tooth fairy didn’t take my teeth, an idiosyncrasy of my parents), and then you end up having to keep them forever.

]]> by: Anna http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14801 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:10:10 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14801 So happy to see a new post up! ;-) Sounds to me like you handled that with grace. Spending that many hours in the ER with your baby is hard enough without having to particpate in any actual taking of her xrays...good job! So happy to see a new post up! ;-)

Sounds to me like you handled that with grace. Spending that many hours in the ER with your baby is hard enough without having to particpate in any actual taking of her xrays…good job!

]]> by: Sarah http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14800 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:06:58 +0000 http://parentingwithoutalicense.com/2008/03/09/thank-goodness-for-socialized-medicine/#comment-14800 But you HAVE to save the first tooth. It's an obligation of sorts. But you HAVE to save the first tooth. It’s an obligation of sorts.

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