Monday, August 1, 2011

Who'd Have Thunk it!

I know this is a horrible picture of me, Elise took it, But it shows my pretty white teeth that I had crowned back in January. I've loved having gorgeous teeth again. When I went up to girls camp on Monday I was enjoying some yummy Carmel corn made by my friend when I bit into what I thought was a pop corn kernel. Until I pulled it out and realized it was a tooth! Then I realized it was MY tooth! I was able to stick it back in but it was really easy to pull back out. Luckily I wasn't staying the night at Girls Camp so when I left around lunch time I called my wonderful visiting teacher Trish, who's husband is a dentist in Eagle Mountain. I asked if he could glue it back in for me. She said sure, and a few hours later I dropped my kids off with her and I drove him to his office for a fast fix, or so I thought. He was closed that day and all weekend for the 24th of July, but made an exception for me.:) We went in and he did some test to see if my dead tooth underneath had any cavities, and it did, while he was testing it we heard his front door to the office open. Ooop he forgot to lock the door behind us. The woman that had just come in was crying, the dentist asked what she needed. She kept saying she was in a lot of pain, then she said her son was killed last week!? HUH? So the Dentist got up to go talk to her and recognized her, she was one if his patients and remembered hearing about her son on the news last week. He asked if I could wait a sec and let her come on back. The poor woman was cry and said she didn't have the money right now to get anything fixed, he looked at her teeth and did some x-rays. She needed a root canal, but he said he'd just patch it and give her a prescription. But told her when everything in her life settled down she needed to come back in to get the full repair done. We both felt so bad for her, I'm sure she was hurting every way possible, my dentist friend was glad he could at least take some of her pain away. I can't imagine what she is going through. It wasn't until later that night I started to put things together. If my tooth hadn't fallen out, I wouldn't have asked the dentist in my ward to fix it, we wouldn't have been in the office when she tried to come by, and she wouldn't have gotten the relief she needed. The Lord works in mysterious ways, sometimes it's not until 5 years later that we understand why things happened. After I connected things, it made the "inconvenience" of my tooth falling out ok with me. :)


1 comment:

KColton said...

Thanks for sharing, such a great story!

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