Dentists and soup

Doctors, doctors, everywhere doctors. Yesterday, I had the lovely task of taking Cameron to the dentist. Now, I've never actually had a bad experience with Cam visiting the dentist since he was about 4 and that was only once. He expressed a little anxiety going to a new dentist yesterday though. As my heart/chest constantly hurts, imagine how I was feeling when I imagined what my afternoon could be like.

Off we go to meet the lovely staff of Katsur Dental and Orthodontics. Fortunately, they are about 5 minutes from our house so we did not have a major amount of time to stress. We go in and meet the "lovely" receptionist. Before I continue, this office has to be the most unprofessional office in my vast experience dealing with office staff. I have always felt that front office staff should use their "indoor voices" while dealing with patients. What a dope I must be. First, she calls me to the desk to announce that they are not my child's dentist. Okay, I'll take a little on this one, I grabbed the wrong insurance card when I left the house. A few weeks ago, I changed the kids dental office as the old one is in Butler, an hour away. I have the new card, it's just sitting on my kitchen table, probably unopened...don't ask!!!! So, she proceeds to call the insurance company and instead of using the keypad she loudly announces into the telephone my child's ID number and date of birth. TG she did not announce his SS number or I would have been off my chair and in her face so fast she would have to reschedule my appointment as she would need the time with the dentist herself. Then another patient comes out needing a phone number and Miss Rude as I like to call her claims to not know it and can't figure out how to get off her fat ass to ask someone where it might be. As we are sitting there waiting, the other patient explains that the "we cater to cowards" notice on the door is a crock of shit as the dentist said she needed a lot of work and when she asked for it to be done, he said "well what do you think we should do first?" Um, wouldn't that be your decision as the paid "professional"? She left without the number after sitting there for 15 minutes.

By now Mr. O.D.D., better known as Cameron is developing a little anxiety and his comment is that "if the dentist is mean to him, he'll kick him with his cowboy boots." I leave it to your imagination where he meant.

Of course, a little piece of me smiled thinking, "good, now I don't have to handle it and risk a trip downtown to Allegheny County Jail." The entire time we were waiting Miss Rude or fat ass never left her chair or use the intercom button which I would hope in 2009, all medical offices have. She instead yelled to everyone else in the office about each phone call.

Finally, we are called in the back by an older hygienist who is very nice and goes out of her way to make Cameron feel at ease. Of course, once Cam is in his "mode" you've lost the battle. He does handle the cleaning well, but, is very quiet. I'm thinking that he thinks this place is full of nut jobs and he does not want to reinforce their idiotic behavior. He's not known for putting up with BS and the way people talk down to kids. After the cleaning, we are shuffled off to another room to await the "dreaded" dentist. I say dreaded because of what the prior patient mentioned. He came in took a look at Cam's teeth and announced we are cavity free, see you in 6 months!!!!!

Now, Cam has not eaten all day as he usually eats after his pill wears off around the time school ends. Instead, we rushed off for the appointment. The hygienist put flouride on his teeth and told him to wait 30 minutes. I'm okay with this as I think this is better than the monthly flouride rinses I endured "thank you Mom" in public school in the 70's. Of course Cameron wanted McDonald's, which is right in front of the dentist. But no, off to Giant Eagle we go.

Since Tuesday evening, I have been planning my soup/salad dinner. Giant Eagle has a special right now you buy a 32 oz. soup from their deli/hot bar and you get a bag salad, baguette, and 2 liter of Coke product free. So that's a full family meal for $6.99. The ad started on Thursday so I had to rush right down and get me some. I was really hungry for a potato soup, but instead they had chili, wedding soup, chicken noodle and broccoli cheese. I decided on Broccoli cheese and chicken noodle. Cameron had asked for a small CN soup, but the thrifty me intervened and thought...2.99 for a small soup, 6.99 for a full meal....what do you think we got? Yep, two specials.

Then we wandered around and bought way more than we should have, but I felt we needed. You know toilet paper and rocky road ice cream. Okay, we did not need the ice cream, but, when you and your husband both want some it does place a high priority in your shopping budget. Especially since we could not get our chocolate fix at McDonald's on Wed. with a shake because their shake machine is broken. Sad, sad day in our car when we heard that tidbit. Feeling a bit guilty for no McDonald's I opted to let Cam get a small Ben & Jerry's Cookie dough ice cream. He accepted the deal :>. I love my son!!!!

All in all it ended up being a good day. No homework. Thank you Mrs. Baker for mistakenly assigning the same homework last Friday and this Thursday and Ms. Suhy and Ms. Swogger for giving the kids the afternoon off. I needed it. A new Ugly Betty at 8 and done early enough to watch some FoxNews.

Things with Kelly are getting tense, she is losing her communication with the world, i.e., no internet and it is wearing on her. I found that she had used my computer without permission on Wednesday so I now password protect my computer and even though she has not mentioned it, I know she tries to use it. I found some unpleasant things on some sites she had visited. I passed those on to her dad and leave it to him to deal with as they are things she is planning for her return to Florida next week. She is also mad that I did not give in to her trick for seeing Jake again this week. She can see him, but, I'm not driving her there or picking her up. He 'accidentally' took her CD home with him. Too bad! Should have been more aware of what was going on is what I say.

This morning, Glenn had to go tint some windows at Allegheny County Jail...I think...he called it Pittsburgh Prison. Not sure if they are one and the same, don't really want to know. I just told him to be careful. The guys there are gonna like him. He called me this afternoon and said he made it out alive. I'm certainly glad to know he did not pick up a "girlfriend" while he was there. LOL

Tomorrow Linda and Alan are coming to say goodbye to Kelly so we'll be cleaning house tonight and tomorrow morning.

I've gotten behind in my Praying for Purpose, but I will not give up.