Posts Tagged "Malachai"
It never ends
Well, eventually it does, but why does everyone lump together?
My kids missed most of last week due to strep. Michael picked Eshiva up today because they think she has the pox. I am hoping she does, and we’ll verify it at the doc this afternoon. I hope it is, and I hope the boys get it too. Still sucks.
I wrapped up my dental till at least the end of March this morning. Last week I had a gum transplant (yah, ouch) and this week I had a filling and a spackling. The tooth I’ve been looking at for 20 some years is now smooth. Weird. It had a little indentation at the top – not a cavity, just an imperfection. The dentist wanted to “fill it” to prevent gum problems as it was right at the gum line. I go back to the perdiodontist in a month for a last check up, then a cleaning, then braces! I think I’ll be sticking to a cleaning every 3 months from now on. It’s deductible, right? ;)
Michael goes in next Monday for some basic dental stuff as well. I think we can drive our teeth now :( I know some of you know how that is.
We had a lovely dinner out last night. We got all dolled up and had a fabulous dinner at Melting Pot.
Dorian made honor roll this quarter. He started guitar lessons yesterday. He gets his braces in about a month. Oh, and he’s all of 6 or 7 inches shorter than me. The boys eats like a horse and is growing like a weed.
Malachai lost another tooth yesterday morning (his third) and it’s been hanging on by a thread for a week. I’m surprised it took so long. The tooth fairy forgot to come last night, but she made a surprise appearance (delayed due to snow in the North East) and left two golden dollar coins. He was thrilled. The boy loves coins. You have no idea how much the boy loves coins lol He got a citizenship award this quarter in school and is not currently trying to outgrow me as much as his brother is ;)
Eshiva is being retested in school so we can have a parent-teacher conference so they can tell me my child is a genius. She is super cute in her recital dress, but is otherwise an annoying five year old little girl. Those of you with girls know exactly what I am talking about. Those of you with boys, be happy! Seriously, the boys at five did absolutely nothing to prepare me for a girl at five. Nothing. I want to sell her to the gypsies at a discount price at least once a day. Too bad they don’t want five year old little girls either.
I have been obsessed with RuPaul’s Drag Race (http://rupaulsdragrace.com) and missing my old friends. I think Michael is tired of it, but hey, it’s entertaining at least. Last seasons queen’s were bien mieux than this seasons :( I miss Nina lol She was my kind of queen. You should check it out if you haven’t. It’s on Logo, last season they aired on Lifetime (? no, but it aired on a reg. cable channel last season but I can’t remember which one, sorry! Maybe VH1?) but I think they are showing them on the website after they air on Logo.
So, that wraps me up. I’ve been nursing sick children all week, and I suspect I’ll be doing the same in the coming week.
Read MoreIn lieu of real content, quick update stolen from PMs
I can’t remember what the last ting I really posted was, and I don’t really feel like looking.
Before the end of January, I completed my first tattoo. It was smaller than a quarter, but it fulfilled my own requirement of doing this before the end of January. I know it was stupid, but this has been going on for two years, and I told myself if I wasn’t ahead of where I was last year, or the year before, that was it. So Michael let me do a cute piece Malachai drew a bit ago and I don’t feel so much pressure from myself now. Phew!
We went to Orlando (Disney) in January as well, both to celebrate with Michael and Sara who turned 18 and to celebrate Eshiva turning 5. It was a super quick overnight trip, so we didn’t make plans to visit with anyone. She had a blast. She got her birthday pin and heaven forbid anyone not say Happy Birthday to her – she made damn sure they saw her pin lol
Dorian went to the orthodontist and he goes back the end of March to get his braces. Malachai hasn’t started his yet, but we’re getting there! He goes back I think the end of this month.
I went to the periodontist and had a gum therapy transplant thingie done yesterday. I am slightly better than miserable but not entirely well. It was a stupid nothing and I am surprised it took so much out of me. I put the details behind a spoiler tag for those who don’t want to hear. It’s not so bad, but it’s not so good either.
Read MoreSometimes in seeking, we don’t always find
Sometimes I go looking for my mom, because I’ve forgotten she isn’t there, and I am surprised when I can’t find her.
Last week Sara was talking downstairs and I swore it was mom. I don’t hear her in my own voice, although I hear her in my words. I was pleasantly surprised to find her in Sara’s.
Read MoreAwesome Orthodontist News :-)
Malachai had another orthodontist appointment this morning. He was a little wary because she tried to get him into the chair (I did not prep him for a chair visit, just more xrays) so we did one x-ray first, and then got him into the chair. He was awesome with the xray! It was a re-take of the one where they put things in your ears and on the bridge of your nose to keep you still and do your whole head. I think he moved in this one too, but he did an awesome job of it regardless.
Then when I got him in the chair, he tried to get out and stepped on the control so it went up. The assistant showed him which button to push to make it go down, so he spent some time going up and down. Our ortho is fucking amazing, she let him do this!
His bottom 6 year molars haven’t come in yet, so she wants to take two individual xrays next time we go in (in 8 weeks) so see why not (the top ones did) – I think it’s because his mouth is so tiny, OTOH, he’s also only lost his bottom two front teeth, the rest are all his baby teeth. He was 7 last August. *shrugs*
I am excited! She said he did a great job. She doesn’t think they have a good enough relationship to really get the work done yet, but she said they are getting there!
Dorian had his brackets looked at because he was in a little bit of pain and was told to brush better because the gums are inflamed around them. He also had his lip bumper adjusted, was told he could keep it out today and rinse with warm salt water to heal up what’s in there. He goes back at the end of the month (his original appt) to check on that tooth that has started coming out (the one that didn’t have room to come out a couple of months ago) and possibly have his braces put on.
I made an appointment for myself for a consult for next Wednesday. Ya’ll might remember last May I had some cavities filled and the dentist fucked up my teeth. I was told it was a “bite problem” (a magically occurring bite problem I might add, one I didn’t have before they drilled my fucking teeth out!) and to see an ortho. So I am. I am hoping it is a quick and inexpensive fix.
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Let me back a minute. We went to the dentist last week and had a shock. Dor needed three more fillings and a crown. What. The. Hell. So after explaining to the dentist (who was new and who freaking rocks, by the way) that I was expecting to come in for a sealant (you know, the stuff they use a paintbrush to brush on) and not major work, I was just a bit surprised and I don’t like dental surprises. So he examines his teeth, counts his fillings and crowns, takes an extra x-ray and tells me that we do indeed need three more fillings and a crown. I ask them not to use the nitrous b/c Dor reacts badly too it, and just use the novocain and we’re off. Two of the fillings were nothing and he didn’t even numb that side of his mouth. Actually, all three may have been nothing, but they had to numb for the crown, so one of the fillings was numbed as well. Unfortunately one of the crowns is where a spacer was, so he tried not to fuck up the space, and did an OK job of it.
We went from the dentist to the orthodontist and he got his bottom brackets put on but had new spacers put on top. It was a busy dental day. We dropped D off at school with instructions that if he isn’t feeling well to tell them and I’ll come get him. All was fine except for the brackets tearing up his cheeks and his gums are swollen over his back teeth.
We went to the orthodontist this morning to get his palate expander, headgear and lip bumper. Oy.
The headgear is for at home only. 10 – 12 hours a day, so he can almost put it on at bed time and have that be that. We were also told he can skip it for sleepovers and stuff, so it’s not life or death. I never had headgear, so I didn’t know a thing about it.
The expander gets turned every other day and is a marked improvement over the one I had 20some years ago. Mine covered my entire palate and was a pain to clean. His is just the metal and while he is having trouble talking right now, and swallowing, once he gets used to it, it will be way better than full coverage. Mine was also turned every freaking day.
The lip bumper can also come out, but shouldn’t. It’s helping to expand the lower jaw (if I understood correctly) and give the tongue more room. I opted not to have braces on the bottom, so I didn’t have that either. New experience!
So the boy is miserable and that sucks because Malachai goes back in a few weeks to finish his x-rays and start this mess and Dorian is gonna be all whiny about it. I hope he puts on a good face about it, b/c Mal *really* needs this work done, or we’re looking at surgeries to correct his problems.
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