nothing but nothing...

yesterday wasn't typical...

dad got another star on his shoulder. we have anticipated it for quite long so it wasn't much of an episode. yesterday, he got home and on his uniform another star was pinned, he had a big smile on his face... and on his hand were keys to the new vios he bought for my mom...

i was flippin through pages of my prosthodontics handout when 'liwanag sa dilim" (my ringtone) sounded. bon and arlene were still asleep upstairs so i quickly crept outside to take the call...

DAD: how do you spell mommy's name?
CRIX: you dont know???
DAD: ano nga?
CRIX: aren't you supposed to know cus your her husband? R-A-C-H-E-L-L-E
DAD: okay... i need it cus i bought her a car
CRIX: you what?
DAD: i bought her a vios
CRIX: wow!

bon later realized, im the lone jollogs in this family!!! abi and pia gets to school in the starex... pot drives the sportage to school... me??? i beat manila traffic in my good ol' kia PRIDE!!! oh well...

mom, however, wi.shed not to break banality... just as always this was what she said:
MOM: i dont need a car! i didn't ask for anything... why did you give me a car? i dont want anything! di ko yan idadrive! i swear! kayo na gumamit niyan!

haaaaay si mommy talaga!!!

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and yet another news...

my pulpotomy team that consisted of moi, annlyn, maj, kuya paul and bon... failed drastically at our first attempt!

we thought all was well... clinical conference was a success! our baskets ready... our instruments sterilzed... clamp (check)... formocresol (check)... laptop (check)... little mermaid vcd for behavioral management (check) mcdonalds breakfast for bribery (check)...

guardian (check)... paitent (WHERE THE HELL IS OUR PATIENT????????????)

to make my long story short, we have all come to agree that ate mary (our evil money hungry agent) poisoned the lola's mind and convinved her to check in as a CD (denture) patient instead of being guardian to our pulpotomy patient. we had to go walk to san sebastian... talk to the aunt... talk to the mom... pick the child at the day care center... ride the pedicab back... lose the lola (who according to ate mary has gone back home) and so head back to san sebastian to pick her up! (bullshit) and ride another pedicab with guess what... we got the same pedicab driver so he gave us a P5 discount! (that was proabably the best thing that's happened all day...)

so back to school... we got into the Ortho-Pedo Section. I took the kid for skin testing that went really well (to my delight) and was looking for forward to a successful mandiblock (anesthetic technique to numb half of your jaw) when at the very sight of the syringe (injection) the patient stiffened, eyes away from the LITTLE MERMAID that was playing on the laptop, and refused to open her mouth...

that was the end of it all... for 3hours... we tried to convince her to open her mouth... made bribes... magic tricks... even threatened the child... i even asked her to pay for the spaghetti she ate (which was quite rude , i know)... and after that whole episode, we packed our stuff... determined to look for a new patient...

it wasn't that the kid was incorrigible... she was very nice... we reached upto caries removal... ready for access prep... but she was too young (4years old) to be willing to accept treatment... she couldn't understand what was happening... the mere sound of the handpiece frightened her...

i feel really bad... sad that we didn't make it... sad for the kid and furious of ate mary!!! she can die now...