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Skriven 2008-12-01 10:35:50 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: EXPIRATION DATES 81130
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Gidday Glen!

->  ->  HN> I'm fast approaching threescore myself!
->  -> You're still a young bugga!
->  ->
->  HN> Thanky gaffer! But you'll find that
->  HN> each year that passes, I'm gaining on you!
-> 
-> I will try to stay a fixed number of years ahead of you.
->  
And I'll be happy to try and catch up!

->  ->  HN> So far all I've needed is reading glasses.
->  -> 
->  -> Teeth start to pack up about now, as you are finding out.
->  ->
->  HN> Teeth can just be filled with mortar, and 
->  HN> some of those are stronger than the originals!
-> 
-> Unfortunately my teeth suffered from a period of 7 years working as a
-> Public Servant in the Commonwealth Dept of Works in what was then the
-> Australian Territories of Papua and New Guinea.  Twice a day an elderly
-> "tea-boy" brought cups of sweet "tea or coffee" (I never worked out
-> which it was supposed to be) and sweet biscuits to our desks.  As this
-> was pre-fluoridation, decay was inevitable.  The quality of dental care
-> available was not high, so teeth deteriorated.  I had already smashed a
-> couple of front teeth on a windscreen wiper motor in a minor pre-seat
-> belt car crash 40 years ago, and the repair of that particular damage
-> has now failed.
->
Well, they've lasted long enough that 
technology can give you a set of chompers
that may exceed your originals!
  
->  ->  ->  HN> I'll be surprised indeed if I avoid
->  ->  ->  HN> the same fate, as I spent most of my
->  ->  ->  HN> youth running around half clothed and
->  ->  ->  HN> shoeless in the sun...or surfing!
->  ->  -> Keep getting the minor, basal cell ones burnt off, and you might be
->  ->  ->
->  ->  HN> So far I have had no appearances of any
->  ->  HN> of those, and hopefully I'll be on top of it
->  ->  HN> if they do show up!
->  -> 
->  -> You have a good prognosis if nothing has shown up yet.  Spending your
->  -> life in the Northern Hemisphere, where the high moisture content of the
->  -> air provides better shielding from UV than here would be an advantage.
->  ->
->  HN> I spent a goodly majority of my youth in more
->  HN> tropic climes, including the South Pacific where
->  HN> I was a surfer and spent virtually all my days out
->  HN> in the sun. 
-> 
-> Even there, in the tropics, the generally high humidity helps to give
-> some protection. Southern and central Australia is where the world's
-> highest rates of skin cancer occur.  In my youth, getting sunburnt was
-> considered a normal part of life.  Now part of every child's school
-> uniform is a wide-brimmed hat, with a severe reprimand if it is not
-> worn when out in the sun.
->
I hope you're right, I've no wish 
to experience the Big C, even though
it seems to run in my family quite strongly.
 
-> BTW, where in the South Pacific have you been?  I've spent time in a
-> few corners of that vast, lightly populated area.
->
Hawaii, Guam, Johnson Island, Wake, and Kwajalein.

 
->  ->  -> Yesterday I had more cutting, and now have a stitched-up zigzag
->  ->  -> incision down the side of my face, from forehead to lower jaw.
->  ->  -> Hopefully that is all I will need for a while.  As soon as that has
->  ->  -> settled down I'll have to see about getting some more front 
teeth...
->  ->  HN> Then you can whistle again?
->  -> Hopefully, by Christmas.
-> 
-> What is even more desirable and Christmas-enhancing would be the
-> ability to gnaw bones and eat toast and apples.
->
Here's hoping!!

->  ->  HN> I'm one of those who always sees better
->  ->  HN> days ahead! So far is good enough.....so far!
->  -> 
->  -> That attitude helps.
-> 
-> If you can just see days ahead is good.
->
I'd settle for that each morning when I rise!
 
->  ->  ->  HN> The sound of the dentist's drill can
->  ->  ->  HN> give me nightmares for a week!
->  ->  -> I can handle that.  What causes my toes to curl is the pain of a 
needle
->  ->  -> jabbing into my gums.  For ordinary fillings I refuse to have any
->  ->  -> injections; I prefer to feel the drill, so I know what is happening.
->  ->  HN> Oh lordy! Just seeing that typed out gives me the 
->  ->  HN> willies!!
->  -> 
->  -> When the burnt-bone smelly smoke starts to curl out of my mouth I like
->  -> to know if he is overheating the tooth, rather than burning the nerve
->  -> without my knowledge.   ZZzzzZZZzzzZzzzZZZ!
->  -> (Hehe)
->  -> 
->  HN> You's a cruel one you is!!
-> 
-> Thankyou!  :)  Just try to imagine the problems your poor dentist faces
-> in trying to cut around that broken drill to remove it while still
-> leaving enough of the tooth left to justify rebuilding, and be sorry
-> for him.  It will probably take him hooouuurrs.
->
I have no sympathy for him, he gets paid!
I get pain!
 chat with you soon!
hap 
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