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Last night Ithaqua, the Great Old One known as the “Wind-Walker” took a walk through our corner of Dunwich.\u00a0 This morning when I arrived for breakfast Camera Girl said, \u201cDon\u2019t get excited.\u201d\u00a0 These are three of my least favorite words.\u00a0 This is what she showed me:<\/p>\n

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Well, that\u2019s not technically right.\u00a0 When I first saw it, the tree was hung up in the branches of two trees on the left side of the driveway.\u00a0 It took considerable yanking on the trunk with a rope that I managed to throw over it before it finally came crashing down on the ground.<\/p>\n

Camera Girl told me to call the \u201ctree guy\u201d and have him take his chain saw to it and get it out of the driveway.\u00a0 This didn\u2019t sit right with my rock-ribbed conservatism and spirit of self-reliance.<\/p>\n

I got out my bow saw and other paraphernalia and got to work.\u00a0 I sawed the trunk.\u00a0 I took a hammer and a pry bar to it.\u00a0 I used an automobile jack to jack up one side.\u00a0 I even climbed on top of it and jumped up and down on it.\u00a0 Finally, a combination of all these actions succeeded.\u00a0 Seven hours later a tired but morally self-satisfied man emerged drenched in sweat, favoring a sore lower back and triumphant over this malevolent natural disaster.<\/p>\n

I think Winston Churchill will forgive me if I paraphrase him in saying, \u201cNever have so few owed so little to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

So unfortunately, when I went to the endodontist on Thursday, he confirmed that there is indeed a crack in the root of that molar.\u00a0 And that means that a root canal will not prevent the tooth from becoming infected again.\u00a0 The tooth must be extracted.\u00a0 So, I said \u201cOkay, let\u2019s do that.\u201d\u00a0 Imagine my chagrin to discover that endodontists don\u2019t extract teeth.\u00a0 And as it then turned out neither does my dentist.\u00a0 In fact, at this point I don\u2019t think he does anything at all as a dentist except refer me to other dentists!\u00a0 So eventually I found a dentist who will extract the tooth but not until Tuesday (it\u2019s Memorial Day weekend you know.)\u00a0 All talk about implants will be delayed until this simple procedure is completed and I can eat food without my mouth aching or worse.<\/p>\n

But it has been an educational experience into the arcane world of dental specialty practices.\u00a0 Most of my discussions with the office personnel consisted of them warning me that I would have to pay them the full amount of the procedures and attempt on my own to get my dental insurer to reimburse me some pathetic subset of my outlay.\u00a0 Well, one thing for sure.\u00a0 A lucrative dental practice does not guarantee good taste in office art design.\u00a0 Some of the photographic decorations that I sat looking at as a patient were not that inspiring.\u00a0 Although I did like them better than the abstract paintings that some of their colleagues favored.\u00a0 Honestly there should be laws or at least professional ethics guidelines to protect people suffering from dental pain from being exposed to these awful things.\u00a0 Well, Tuesday is just around the corner.\u00a0 Surcease from sorrow is a mere ninety-six hours in the offing.\u00a0 Unless the climate gods unleash a biblical plague of fiery hail I should be \u201cdetoothed\u201d by Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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