a day at the dentists

I am just cracking open my second chu-hai (-196C ume, followed by orange). I had a dentist visit today, so I figure I deserve it (strange logic, I know). I went to the dentist that I found last year, when we were living in Tokyo (close-ish to Shinjuku
). Apart from the fact that he is the best dentist I have found so far in Japan, and he is really good with kids (potential dentist for K) I also had a procedure done there last year, so I figure it is worth going out of my way (about 50mins by train) to see him again. "Father, please forgive me, it is 4 months since my last check-up....." I am on the 3-times-a-year check-up schedule, but it seems that all is going well on my front tooth (I had a gum graft done, to try to build up the gum around one of my bottom front teeth, which was basically going bald for want of a better desctiption). I am guessing that it was all the stress of the move and J's new job that LEAD me to eat miles and miles of sweet sugary things which caused the cavity in tooth L4 (I am just making that up, I don't know what the tooth is nicknamed).So today we braved the rain and a grumpy K to go to my 3pm dentist appointment.

You see, K had a bit of a bad night - she kept on waking up crying and rolling around, like she was trying to find a comfy position or something. She did this what seemed like every hour all night. She obviously got a bit excited around 3:34am, because that is the time she grabbed my mobile phone (from under my pillow) and rang J's mobile phone (which was under HIS pillow). I woke up to a not so happy J telling me that K had just rung him. I thought it was a dream. Anyway, this morning K was a bit crabby, so I rang the dentist to try to reschedule, but all other times I could go were booked, so we went today. I tried to keep K awake until as late as I could, in the hope that she would sleep while I was at the dentist, but when you have an hours worth of transit to get to the dentist, it is pretty hard. She woke up when we were waiting at one train station because of the bloody loud announcement saying that the train station was now no-smoking. Thanks. She did fall asleep once we were on the train again, and I thought we were in luck when she was still asleep as I jumped into the dentist chair. But of course, I should have known better, and she woke up basically the moment the dentist sat beside me to say "let's begin". But she was an ANGEL!!!!!!!! again for the whole 2 hours (yes, 2 HOURS) I was at the dentist, getting a filling (from eating all that yummy stuff) and then a good cleaning down. My dentist did everything on this one visit just so that I wouldn't have to trudge all the way back there again next week. did I mention that he is great (better not say that too much, you might catch on that I have a crush on him, lol!) Next visit - in another 4 months time. I am off to pencil him into my diary now.