WideAngleWandering and his wife were here visiting a couple weeks ago and left me a gift with no strings attached...cash to use for the kids. After
spending it a million time over in my head, it came in so handy this past Saturday.
When I went to see the scholarship group on Friday, Lizeth told me that her tooth with filled cavity from the Mulege dental clinic was hurting more
than before she got the filling. I immediately told 2 other kids that we would be going to the dentist on Saturday.
Which we did! Lizeth got tooth redone, another student got two more fillings done and all 3 got check ups so that I now know the future plan.
After the dentist, I took them all to lunch.
Thanks WAWandering for being so generous, thanks Dra. Alma for taking the kids in at the last minute, thanks Les for driving!
Here is Lizeth. Turns out she is a patient who faints at the word dentist according to her Mom, so I explained that a good dentist makes you feel no
pain, how important to take care of teeth due to the consequences of NOT doing so and mainly, BREATHE BREATHE BREATHE. I did not fancy her fainting
on us!
She didn't. Thank you God.
KIDS IN THE WAITING ROOM...KIDS WILL BE KIDS
LIZETH IN DENTIST'S CHAIR
JULIAN IN THE DENTIST'S CHAIR
He said his filled tooth had also been bothering him, but Dra. Alma thought it was just sensitivity.
ROGELIO IN THE DENTIST'S CHAIR
It turns out Rogelio has a very terrible problem with his front tooth. Instead of 2 front teeth, they are melded into one huge front tooth. Not
only, that, he has a tooth which cannot be seen or felt inside his gum in front. The inside tooth has to come out, then his front teeth have to be
separated so he looks better (he never used to smile at the camera) and his teeth are so messed up that he is going to require braces. This is a
Blanca challenge and I already have some ideas - we shall be sending him to TJ, along with Lizeth who still has 5 cavities to fill.
GROUP PHOTO WITH DRA. ALMA
LIZETH AT LUNCH. We went to Martithas. Lizeth said she wanted a hamburger. A hamburger I said (their hamburgers are tiny), why not order something
you never get a chance to eat? We never eat hamburgers, she answered. One of these days this week I am going to buy some ground meat and drop it off
to the family. She ended up ordering enchiladas suizas. Her left cheek is swollen in the photo but she ate it all!
JULIAN AT LUNCH
Julian's dad is a policeman in Vizcaino and came to pick Julian up to buy him some sneakers right before we had lunch. He was so happy!
ROGELIO AT LUNCH
When I asked Lizeth on a scale from 1 (terrible) to 10 (excellent), how she felt about her experience at the dentist, believe it or not she said
it was a 10! I feel great about that.
The toothaches are gone but there are more cavities to be filled and I really would like some x-rays to know how their wisdom teeth are doing.
Better to handle them now then when they are in college.
It was all good! fishbuck - 3-25-2019 at 12:01 PM
I like those smiles.fishbuck - 3-25-2019 at 12:02 PM
I love the smart phone action at the beggining.
Staying connect to their world, managing their lives properly...
or texting... fishbuck - 3-25-2019 at 12:16 PM
La Bocana... orthodonta...?fishbuck - 3-25-2019 at 12:26 PM
Guerrero... grills? BajaBlanca - 3-25-2019 at 05:03 PM
Blingy bocas hahahahaadvrider - 3-25-2019 at 06:15 PM
Keep us posted when it's time for a return trip... fishbuck - 3-25-2019 at 08:11 PM
