a must-have app

I’m half way into a long and expensive process to get a tooth implant.  Incompetent dental work in May of 2006 led to a near nervous breakdown (I am not exaggerating), a crown, a root canal, and months of unidentified agonizing pain, dizziness, no appetite and insomnia.  It was the single worst medical issue I’ve ever faced.

This year I discover that because of all the problems in 2006, I lost a lot of bone around my tooth (it’s way in the back) and now have to have the tooth removed and replaced with an implant.  Before this happened, I had no idea what the phrase tooth implant even meant.  Now, unfortunately, I do.

In December of last year I have the tooth removed, and last week I have the implant put in (which is basically a screw in your mouth, that forms the basis for the crown, that will be added in another three months or so).  It’s a year-long project at a cost of about $6,000.

I am at the periodontist’s, when his assistant begins talking to me.  My face is covered by a gas mask and I am just beginning to feel the lovely affects of nitrous oxide.  “So, do you like to read,“ Lisa asks me.  “Yes,” I’m surprisingly able to answer.  I ask her for recommendations.  She tells me she loved the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy… three books everyone is discussing as literature but seems to be a kind of acceptable porn.   I think I’m number 545 or so on the reserve list at the library.  Lisa then says, “Do you have an iPhone or iPad?  If you do, I can just email the books to you.”  Really?  I had no idea one could do this.  “You mean you can send me your books  and I don’t have to pay for them?  “Sure,” she says, and emails me links to the three books.  “All you need to do is download a free app called iBooks.”  This is so much better than even using the library.

Who’d have thought I’d go in for a tooth implant and come out with three hot books?