Sally's GF3 thread

[Sally PB]

Today I am a mere Princess. (The name Sally is a diminutive of Sarah, and the meaning is "princess" or "woman of high rank.")

Tomorrow I become a queen. Coronation in the early afternoon. Tooth #19 is getting a crown.

I haven't had tooth repair requiring Novocain in years. I'm a bit nervous, to be honest.

 

[Sequel]

Today I am a mere Princess. (The name Sally is a diminutive of Sarah, and the meaning is "princess" or "woman of high rank.")

Tomorrow I become a queen. Coronation in the early afternoon. Tooth #19 is getting a crown.

I haven't had tooth repair requiring Novocain in years. I'm a bit nervous, to be honest.

Good luck Sally! FWIW I just got a new crown last week. They are much more considerate of patient comfort than in the old days. Thank heavens!

 

[Sally PB]

Thanks. Then you are a member of the royalty too!

My parents both had "a lot of gold" in their mouths. At least dentists have found another substance to use.

 

[NanaK]

Good luck!

I had a crown done in the past. It's not too bad. I remember the funny feeling as the novocane wears off. Makes you feel like half your face is sliding off.

 

[Sally PB]

The coronation went well! It took 3 (!) shots for my lip to get numb. Now as it's wearing off, my stomach feels squirrely and I'm getting a slight headache.

They did a fantastic job. It looks just like my tooth, only it doesn't have the filling in it. They matched the color very well. I told them it's tooth plus coffee plus tea.

It's so weird drinking... I can't feel the cup on the left half of my lip. Am I pouring the tea down my face...? Nope, it ended up in my mouth, where it's supposed to be. I drank it by the sink anyway, just to be safe, in case I had an accident.

 

[fuzzi]

The coronation went well! It took 3 (!) shots for my lip to get numb. Now as it's wearing off, my stomach feels squirrely and I'm getting a slight headache.

They did a fantastic job. It looks just like my tooth, only it doesn't have the filling in it. They matched the color very well. I told them it's tooth plus coffee plus tea.

It's so weird drinking... I can't feel the cup on the left half of my lip. Am I pouring the tea down my face...? Nope, it ended up in my mouth, where it's supposed to be. I drank it by the sink anyway, just to be safe, in case I had an accident.

Sounds like me. They have to numb me to my eyeballs.

 

[Sally PB]

Sounds like me. They have to numb me to my eyeballs.

My tongue got numb with the first shot, but my lip didn't. The dentist said that was very common. As he put it, "The lip is a lush. Give me more! Give me more!" That was good for a laugh.

I told him that I did NOT watch "Castaway" recently. He knew exactly what scene I was referring to.

If you haven't seen the movie, Tom Hanks ends up marooned on an island with some boxes that fell out of a FedEx plant. Among the things, a pair of ice skates. The scene I was referring to: Tom Hanks gets an abscessed tooth. He uses the tail end of the ice skate blade to punch out the tooth. He passes out after that.

 

[cavemanrich]

Among the things, a pair of ice skates. The scene I was referring to: Tom Hanks gets an abscessed tooth. He uses the tail end of the ice skate blade to punch out the tooth. He passes out after that.

He takes it like a MAN
I remember that scene well. I also remember how he tracks time on the cave wall.

 

[Sally PB]

We heard a fawn bleating when we were out in the field yesterday morning. We found it, left it alone, and avoided that area the rest of the day, hoping mama would come back.

When I went out to lock up the chickens, hubby went to se if the fawn was still there. It was. Its back end was down in a wood chuck burrow; maybe it got stuck? Anyway, it had been there for about 10-12 hours, and no mama. We brought it inside, as it was supposed to get down to the low 40s last night (it did). The neighbor's dog roams at night, and we have a lot of raccoons and possums.

Fawns have no smell, but something would have found it, I think. A tiny fawn at 43 degrees had no chance.

Hubby said it could barely lift its head, and its bleats were weak. We put it in a small dog crate, and I put the chick heater plate just outside the crate, against its back. We tried giving it some sugar water,* but it wouldn't even try to suck on the dropper he offered. I had put a blanket under and over it, covered the crate with towels.

No, it didn't survive the night. We will bury it out in the field today.

*I called an animal rescue and learned some interesting information. It's a good thing it didn't take any of the warm milk we offered; cow's milk is "a death sentence" to fawns. Goat's milk would have been ok.

I also learned that, because of Chronic Wasting Disease, we would not have been permitted to take the fawn more than 15 miles from our property. Well, that surely limits the animal rehab places we could take it! To exactly... zero.

 

[NanaK]

Very sorry this happened. Fawns are such beautiful animals. I wonder if the mama knew something was wrong? She could have had twins and felt the need to take care of the healthy baby knowing this one didn't have a chance??

I would have done the same as you. I would have had to at least try to help under these circumstances.

It's a good thing it didn't take any of the warm milk we offered; cow's milk is "a death sentence" to fawns. Goat's milk would have been ok.

I was about to say this until I finished reading.

I was told this was also true of many baby animals. Goat's milk is available at most grocery stores near the can milk. A rehaber told me this when I was raising 2 feral days old kittens. She said cows milk caused very bad diarrhea in kittens and many other animals too.

No one would take those kittens because they were bottle babies. They were going to be euthanized. So I took them. They did great on the right diet. They were both male and lived to be old kitties and were great pets for almost 15 years. They passed about a year apart. I will always miss them.

Names were Pamlico and Pungo after the rivers they were born beside.

Sometimes we have to step up. You made that fawn's last night comfortable.