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If our laptop ever gets fixed, of course. I'm pleased to see that the favourable review compares with mine -- though I have the adult model of Felis catus.

Er. Models.

Feeling mighty quibbly today. I'm off shortly for the first of my knee injections (eee-yuck) and the canal of my afflicted root will be roto-tilled tomorrow. Not, however, by the grim Germanic lady who first examined me.

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I felt. No special equipment (after my mother said, "Dr. D. doesn't do root canals any more, since he doesn't want to invest in all the computer software for measuring the root and things"); indeed, a very "bare bones" sort of an office... unkempt assistant spritzing disinfectant about in a jaded manner... I thought the dentist herself seemed fairly solid, and probably has done root canals in less luxurious situations than this -- but do I want a grim Eastern Bloc operation when I could be enjoying all the luxuries of Western medical decadence?

A friend of mine told me about another dentist, a Root Canal Specialist who is, she says, of such notable accomplishment that other dentists from all over Southern Ontario refer patients to him. I called today, mentioned her name, and to my lasting astonishment, got an "emergency appointment" -- for tomorrow.

I feel so relieved. I hadn't realised until after I called and cancelled the other appointment how it had been preying on my mind. I trust my dentist at home implicitly, but have had such terrible experiences with others, that I think I do now have a little bit of dental phobia lurking in the shadows of my brain.