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staffordjas
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Hope they get you sorted @Thehooperman
staffordjas
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Luckily phone just rang in my bag as we'd just got on the train and still quiet.....
Minor surgery appointment next week to have the alien removed from my neck. Yay!
Minor surgery appointment next week to have the alien removed from my neck. Yay!
SketchyMagpie
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Hope today has been better @littleme
If anyone remembers me mentioning last summer that I lost a filling during lockdown.. I'm finally going to the dentist with it today. Ahem. There's been no pain so I just left it, since I was iffy about going anywhere with more vulnerable people in the house than me (pre-vaccine) and then before I knew it it was a year later. Whoops.
I'd feel far less anxious about going if you still got a He-Man sticker at the end for being brave. Just saying
If anyone remembers me mentioning last summer that I lost a filling during lockdown.. I'm finally going to the dentist with it today. Ahem. There's been no pain so I just left it, since I was iffy about going anywhere with more vulnerable people in the house than me (pre-vaccine) and then before I knew it it was a year later. Whoops.
I'd feel far less anxious about going if you still got a He-Man sticker at the end for being brave. Just saying
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Thehooperman
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Thank you.
Unfortunately they can't treat it and it's just a matter of waiting until the bones knit and then a load of physio to look forward to.
Lucy
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Linocut or The Daymark?
Thehooperman
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Which bone is it ? .... (I learned all my bone names from ones that I've broken. Ya NEVER forget those.) (It's got me a few points in the pub quiz on several occasions.)
According to Louth hospital it is my greater tubercle but Stafford call it my greater tuberosity.
Whatever it's called it still hurts like feck.
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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Went for a wee in the middle of the night and noticed something white by the back door (our bathroom is downstairs)
I thought it was a letter, which was odd as it's the middle of the night...
It was a slice of bread!!
Cheeky cat isn't happy about his new diet and decided to help himself to the loaf on the side and tried to drag it through the cat flap!
I thought it was a letter, which was odd as it's the middle of the night...
It was a slice of bread!!
Cheeky cat isn't happy about his new diet and decided to help himself to the loaf on the side and tried to drag it through the cat flap!
littleme
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Our old cat used to bring all sorts home, slices of toast, burgers, chips etc from the carboot (our house backs onto the common) he stole a whole cooked chicken from across the road once.... But the worst thing was a bag of raw sausages.... He'd brought them home & dumped them on the doorstep in the rain, I opened the backdoor to find the sausages covered in enormous slugs and just could not work out what it was... Brain did not compute! HORRIFIC SIGHT.
littleme
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It was, thank you! Sometimes it seems the whole day is full of a cross grumpy vibe.... Today's entertainment was brought to me by lovely @Glam, she made me giggle, insulted me, and one day will probably get me sacked after we stood giggling like 5yr olds.
I also lost a filling last year, and the same I've had no pain so not done anything about it till now, but I've just found my dentist has now been taken over (Hillcrest). Can anyone recommend an NHS dentist that's taking new patients? Not the one opposite the police station in town, I've been fleeced by them before!
Glam
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I love having a natter and laugh with you, unlike a few of the staff in there, you are always friendly.(And helpfull)
Mind you though, you did turn a funny green colour when the basket bloke breathed in your face!
Thehooperman
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Stafford dental surgery on Friar's Road were taking new NHS patients a couple of months ago.
staffordjas
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I've been with them ever since Simpson & Goodwin started many moons ago.(And the Australians who owned the practice before that.)
Mr Simpson has retired now , and Mr Goodwin who I have is not that far off retiring.
There are a lot of new dentists there now . I was palmed off on one of them without being told beforehand last year as too many patients wanted Mr Goodwin. Not at all impressed with the one I had when I went in agony, she just took xrays and then booked me in to their hygenist (private as I found out when I came to pay). Told me to come back next week if the agonising pain hadn't gone. Then said that was the end of that treatment and I had to pay that visit.
Still in agony had to make a return visit (and pay again) and insisted to see Mr Goodwin who knows all the work he's done on my teeth in the past. Found out from him that they had off-loaded lots of his old patients (including me) as all the new patients were wanting him , so he had too many on his books. He sorted the problem out by taking the tooth straight out ,which should have been taken out in the first place . And told me that with my teeth the expensive hygienist visit had been a total waste of time and not to go to her again!
After all these years there I will be looking around for a new dentist surgery if Mr Goodwin is no longer there. Let me know if you find a good one elsewhere @littleme
Trumpet
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I'm with them, decent, honest practice.
SketchyMagpie
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I saw a new dentist at Simpson & Goodwin yesterday (who I have been with all my life pretty much) and she was really friendly and put me at ease.
I wouldn't have any issue recommending them but I did have one bad experience with a new dentist a few years ago who told me one molar had decay but he couldn't really do anything because of the position so I'd have to just leave it and yank it out when it gets painful. A few months later I (by pure chance) saw a different dentist there and he put a filling in, no problem.
I always saw Mr Simpson before he left several years ago, I think I've seen 3 different people since then.
I wouldn't have any issue recommending them but I did have one bad experience with a new dentist a few years ago who told me one molar had decay but he couldn't really do anything because of the position so I'd have to just leave it and yank it out when it gets painful. A few months later I (by pure chance) saw a different dentist there and he put a filling in, no problem.
I always saw Mr Simpson before he left several years ago, I think I've seen 3 different people since then.
staffordjas
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I started off with Mr Simpson for years , then when he was off one time and I had Mr Goodwin I then stuck with him. Had lots of work done with them over the years ,so they've got to know me well ! (Not a good thing...I'd rather them not have to see me except for check-ups ) .
Mr Goodwin knows he has to tip the couch up with my feet in the air to stop me ending up passed out on the floor, and to approach without warning from behind , distracting me with chatter so I don't realise the needle is about to be whacked in .
I found out by googling the last time , that the new one I was off-loaded to last time during lockdown was newly qualified and only just started there. She even x-rayed the wrong tooth the first time , despite me telling her the plate was in the wrong place. Came back with xray saying looking perfectly fine. Asked to x-ray again , the tooth behind this time which I'd told her was actually hurting ......."Oh yes, this 2nd one is showing infection. Come back next week if the infection doesn't clear up and we will see what we can do....."
Mr Goodwin whipped the tooth straight out when I went back the next week , as he said it was so bad there was no way of saving it . Could have saved that week of further agony if I'd have seen him in the first place.
Mr Goodwin knows he has to tip the couch up with my feet in the air to stop me ending up passed out on the floor, and to approach without warning from behind , distracting me with chatter so I don't realise the needle is about to be whacked in .
I found out by googling the last time , that the new one I was off-loaded to last time during lockdown was newly qualified and only just started there. She even x-rayed the wrong tooth the first time , despite me telling her the plate was in the wrong place. Came back with xray saying looking perfectly fine. Asked to x-ray again , the tooth behind this time which I'd told her was actually hurting ......."Oh yes, this 2nd one is showing infection. Come back next week if the infection doesn't clear up and we will see what we can do....."
Mr Goodwin whipped the tooth straight out when I went back the next week , as he said it was so bad there was no way of saving it . Could have saved that week of further agony if I'd have seen him in the first place.
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