My silly dentist...poor fool!
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| Thu, 07-27-2006 - 9:19pm |
This will crack you guys up. I've got a new dentist, who answers his own phones, and we were scheduling an appointment for a cleaning. I told him I had to work around DH's schedule, because DH has to watch the kids while I'm at appointments. The dentist asked how old my kids were, and I said, "4 and 8." He said, get this, "Why not bring them along?"
HAAAAAA!!! He wasn't joking, either. Man. I'm not sure if he expected them to sit in the waiting room (where they could jump on the seats and shout "Buttcrack!" in relative privacy, or if he expected them to stand in the corner and watch me get my teeth cleaned. Har har har, "Bring them along"! I'm still chuckling inside from that.
Evelyn (Thank goodness for this board. No one else would understand why I find this funny.)

OMG that I would love to see. I am sure he would never say anything like that again. I remember the one and only time that our doctor told me to bring D.J. in with me no problem. RIGHT... Well me next visit he asked me what my sons problem was? Which one was all I could think of to say.. I have never taken him back again..
I wonder what the dentist was thinking.. Oh yeah all kids are perfect
I loved the story yep it's funny and I wonder if the dentist was sniffing the laughing gas.. ROFL
Tina
OMG that is too funny.
Well, if you are in the mood for a nice laugh and aren't thinned skinned you could always take him up on his offer! It would be good for a giggle.
At the beginning of this summer I had to make an appointment. I was stuck and had to do it when the kids were off school and couldn't get a sitter. So I figured Cait has been staying home alone for a few here and there with Emily or David. Mike has been dying to be left too. My dentist is literally less than a mile away and it would be a 1/2 hour visit so I decided to let them try staying home. Set them all up with video games and such before I left. ROFLMAO! What a mistake.
I was there 5 minutes, had just gotten shots to numb my mouth and the dentist was sittining there just pulling out the needle when Cait and Emily called. The boys were fighting, slamming and locking doors, all over the place, hyper, dangerous, etc. So I try to talk to the boys on the phone to settle them down with stuff in my mouth mind you. It was totally useless. Ears were none functional. SO I convince the dentist to let me leave for 10 minutes, flew home to pick them up with my mouth numbed but the work not done. Flew back and stuck them in the office with a very huge "talking to" all the way there.
They did ok in the office but only because they had just lost electronics basically for life, there was new lego's in the office, the office staff knows them well and is good with ASD kids, there was NO ONE else in the office at the time, and they only had to wait maybe 15 to 20 minutes.
I will never make an appointment for me when I have to have the kids home again. This was the first time ever I tried it and I was quickly reminded why I don't. LOL.
Renee
~SORT~ Silly dentist!
I once had to take my youngest to an ortho apt at Children's and couldn't get a sitter. I had 5 of my six plus two friend's kids who were visiting from England. My oldest was off at college, my husband was at work, and my DGM was horibly sick. I called to see if DD *really* had to be seen that week and could we skip it (whe was being seen every week at that point) and they said "Yes, she has to come. We were going to change her casts this week. And hey, this is *Children's* just bring the other kids along and drop them at the play area. We're prepared." I kept saying "Yeah, but..." and "No, wait, you don't understand..." but they wouldn't let me warn them...."Oh no, we can handle it. Really."
After the apt the RNP pulled me aside and politely (while trying not to laugh... she'd met all of my kids on home visits) told me I'd broken a record... I had officially driven the ladies over at the play area nuts. HUH! Go figure. **grin** When I went to pick them up the ladies looked at me like I was god. "How do you DO it?", "And you don't have respite care? And you're not nuts?", "You must get a lot of help at home..."
The RNP walked out to the van with us and I asked her "Did you warn them?"
RNP: "Tried too, they wouldn't let me."
Me: "Yeah, me too."
~Pause~
Me: "You think I should tell them that my husband and grandmother are on the spectrum too?"
RNP: "Na! Let me do it. I want to make sure to have my camera there to take pictures of their faces. I need the laughs."
I say take them. He'll be all the wiser for it and think more carefully before speaking in the future. **grin**
SG_1Niner
Well, the appt. has come and gone, and I did NOT take them. The dentist asked all the standard get-to-know you questions, and I casually mentioned that David has Asperger's, which, in a nutshell, means that things that are no problem for a typical 8 year old are a bit more arngarngrrlrllg Drrrrdd." (remember, I was in the dentist's chair.)
The thing is, I'm sure whatever would have happened, would have looked like a cut-and-dry case of bad parenting. That stress would have been too much, especially along with the stress of having to smell the dentist's HORRIBLE breath! Ugh, it was torture! LOL!
Evelyn