... for those poor bilionaires:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090312/tuk-doom-and-gloom-for-uk-billionaires-6323e80.htmlIs this really the right message in times like this? When people lose their jobs and don't know how to pay for medical treatment and lose their homes because they can't pay their mortgages anymore, will they be comforted by the thought that billionaires have been reduced to mere common, or garden, millionaires?
In other, much gloomier news, I have a dentist appointment at 11.
After 13 dentist-free years, fate has finally caught up with me.
13 years ago, I had a root canal done -- the back half of the tooth was removed too -- and then thought Bugger it, I'll just leave it like this. Since the front half was there, nothing was visible. And in spite of dire warnings, there was neither infection nor inflammation, nor did my lower jaw fall off..
Last Saturday, I baked bread, ate a slice, and a piece of crust went between the tooth-ruin and its neighbour, acting like a wedge when I bit down. Result: tooth broke clean off. Unfortunately, unless it's replaced, its colleague in the upper jaw might come loose, and we can't have that. Hence the dentist.
If he intends to take out the root, though, and make an implant, I won't have it done here. I'm just too paranoid about the risk of infection anywhere in my head. But I guess the root holds firm, so he can probably insert a titanium base and put a crown on in.
Anyway, I'm going to have my teeth done completely (not that there will be much, but anyway), and then I'll be looking forward to another 13 years without crossing a dentist's threshold.
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duco_lacuna , new to the flist and fellow Lucius lover. Happy birthday, my dear!