All Day at the Dentist?*

The last two days have been weird. Weirder for Bryan than for me, but still not totally normal.

Bryan has extremely thin enamel on his teeth, which means that he's gotten loads of fillings over the last twenty years. (I really don't know when he got his first filling, I'm just guestimating. No, that's not really a word.) And unfortunately, all of those fillings need to be replaced. He met with someone from our dentist's office who wrote out a plan for this major dental-project. They divided his mouth into quadrants. In December he had the first quadrant replaced. Yesterday they did the second quadrant.

In order to get everything done in one fell swoop he needed to be in the dentist's chair from eight in the morning until just after two in the afternoon. Yup, more than six hours of dental work. I like the dentist, but that's even hard for me to handle. Anyway, our dentist does the sedation thing. That means you take some medication the night before and the morning of and then for the rest of the day you're in a foggy, half-awake half-asleep, Twilight-Zone kind of place. Bryan was not allowed to drive a car for twenty-four hours after the procedure. He also wasn't allowed to hold or care for children.

That meant that I was on all day yesterday, caring for all three of the men at my house. After coming home and sleeping for three hours I thought that most of the medication had worn off. Nope. I asked him today about some things we discussed in the evening after the boys went to bed and he had no idea what I was talking about. He basically lost yesterday. It's just gone. Which I think would be kind of scary. And he's been in a fog most of today.

But his teeth sure look pretty.

*Name the movie!