I found a long lost cousin by googleing different sites so, if I can

A while back I got an email from someone in Cornwall who said she was
Susan Wheal before she got married and did I remember her from Manor
Road? Talk about nostalgia? I knew her when I was 7-9, her grandad ran
the best sweetshop in town (those classic old shops with the big jars
of sweets! just being reminded of her name made me remember going in
and getting half a pound of Merry Maid caramel's for my mum's birthday
present and they used to sell things like "Spanish Main" sweet tobacco
(toasted coconut strips) ) and she found me just by idly browsing a
few web sites.

It isn't even online- the World is smaller than you think. Got a call
a couple of years ago from Jim asking me if I had seen Hugh or Big
Mark lately. Last night I told him being somewhat puzzled as he hadn't
met them (he did at my 50th)

Basically Jim worked for (he's now part owner) a small company in
Hastings so small at the time, it employed him, two workmen and a part
time secretary called Sue. One day he's sitting in the office and
mentioned to Sue that he had to have a day off to go to Romford to put
flowers in the crematorium plaque for mum and dad (i'm ever pedantic
about that- bless him he came up with the message  dad's date of birth
and death then underneath it has mum';s date of birth and says
"reunited 16.05.04 and then in bold letters "Reunited Together" and I
had to say they could hardly be reunited apart!)

"You an only child?" Sue said
"Nope got a brother called Ron and a sister called Lesley"

"Lesley Madigan? Does she live in East London?"

"Yes why?"

"Does she role play?"

When he replied in the affirmative she said to call and ask if I'd
seen Big Mark and  Hugh lately.

I don't know Sue but I do know her husband from the gaming group so
what are the odds when they moved to Hastings she would take a job
with a small company one of whose few employees would be my brother?

Weird

I know that I mean today it doesn't hurt at all taken no painkillers
and  I tucked into a steak pasty with no problem even chewing on that
side but I know something will need to be done. Still nothing can be
done until Wednesday at the earliest because I have to finish the
antibiotics and I'm more worried about my niece who is due to have her
baby Thursday (whether the baby wants to be born or not!) and the
dentist did say if it settled down well when I started the
antibiotics , which it did I can even safely wait for another week or
so

 She considered the root canal thing but the cost

With me- time may be the problem. My boss is not so sympathetic as to
ignore my taking time off to go the dentist even if I arrange early or
late appointments they have to come out of annual leave or I have to
take unpaid leave. I had one days leave left and I have already had to
take half of that to go last Thursday and if I go back between now and
the 1st of April that's the other half day lost unless I lose the pay
and with what may be a large dental bill I don't want to do that. One
option may have to be to change my dentist- there's one who works at
the hospital a couple of days a week so I could just have my lunch
hour at some odd time and pop over to his clinic there can't be too
many sessions in a dental chair that last a whole hour! I'll be sad to
say goodbye to Beata and her merry gang but the reason I used them in
the first place (apart from the fact they were accepting NHS patients)
was they're a short walk from where I used to work so I could book in
for 9.00 and be at my desk at 9.30 or pop in to see them after work or
even go in my break so I was able to get everything done without
losing annual leave. Now I'm over an hour away from them from home and
half an hour from work

(I'm bracing myself! The phone in the living room just rang and Dave
picked it up and has just said "Hi, mum"- another crisis)

(Yep another crisis! Dad's taken a turn for the worse and they need to
get the doctor in. That'll be Tuesday as mum has booked a dial a ride
tomorrow to go and get some shopping done)

Anyway I suppose I do have a few days to think about it (or not as I
can't do anything just yet)

Unless we are talking several hundred pounds then cost is not really
the problem, Okay it;s an unexpected expense and I daresay I am
looking at a couple of hundred pounds but as there will be more than 1
appointment I can spread it with my credit card over a couple of
months so it won't hurt my wallet too much (my jaw is another matter)

No one is more

Try Dave. In the almost 30 years we've been together he's never been!
His theory (and I have had heard the same from a couple of other
people) is dentists cause toothache. They wouldn't make money if you
went along and walked out with nothing needing done, he says, so they
always find something and of course once the tooth is weakened by
being drilled then you're on an endless merry go round of more work
until they can't possibly do anything else at which point you're
advised to have it out (and probably have to have it out) then they
can start trying to sell you implants!

What this theory actually hides, of course, is that Dave is terrified
of dentists, Our relationship has survived a lot of things but I don't
think it would survive his having to go to the dentist...

He's been blessed with even teeth with clear gaps and as a result his
only dental drama in all the time I have known was when one of his
milk teeth fell out- no fuss at all, he said it felt loose and the
next thing it dropped out with no pain or bleeding. He was 35 at the
time but apparently people can keep milk teeth for a long time indeed
I have 3 at the front myself where the adult tooth never developed so
with nothing to push them out the milk teeth have stayed in place and
are sound. (make sense of this if you can- my front teeth are
overcrowded lots of hard to reach with a toothbrush bits and all are
sound but my back teeth where there are less hard to reach spaces are
the one's that give me trouble)

So he bounces around with completely pain free teeth and I suffer and
he says it proves the best way to have healthy teeth is to never go
near a dentist!

It's not fair! If I were a nastier person I;d be wishing just  a small
toothache on him! Then again it'd be like my suffering with hayfever,
I don't get hayfever he does and I suffer!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Who is r anyway? I don't recall any posts.

Ouch,

I am a newbie on this ng and I honestly was thanking Pam for the tip! I
apologize for any misunderstandings.

All the best,

Bonnie

I do not like strangers marching into this group telling old timers what
we should or should not be doing. I'm sure Pam knows I'm not upset at
her at all.

I don't think there is such a thing as privacy on the internet, unless
you are an extremely knowledgeable and savvy techie. Which I happen to
know my dear friend Susan is not. :)

Again, you are talking to people who have been friends with each other
for *years*.