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Not my day....
Jan. 7th, 2003 08:55 pm... and even worse for Lin.
I got up at 7am (2 hours earlier than normal) so I could be at the Commission for the Blind when Lin got her BrailleNote. (sort of a Braille PDA/laptop)
After an hour of talking and training, she and I got left to play with it some more for another hour.
We headed over to Lloyd Center to hit the Radio Shack. The Braillenote takes Compact Flash cards. Lin wanted one, and I wanted to get one as well, along with an adapter for my PC so I could exchange files with her.
After that I offered to buy lunch. We had Indian food from a place in the mall's food court. Lin was eating the last bit of her Peanut Butter Chicken, when a bit of bone nailed a temporary filling in one of her teeth.
She could tell that the filling had come out, and thought that a bit more of the tooth had broken. She was in a lot of pain. She decided she needed to see if she could get it taken care of.
She wasn't sure if their new insurance had kicked in yet (they haven't received this years "cards" yet). I told her that I'd loan her the money if necessary so she could get it fixed.
We got lucky, there was a dental place a few hundred feet away, and they were able to fit her in. After about an hour, they came out to ask me to double check some papers (since Lin is effectively blind much of the time, she needs that sort of thing done sometimes).
And that's how I found out that they'd decided that the tooth needed to be extracted. As I later found out, the tooth had cracked in half, and apparently there'd been an infection under the temp filling. As it was, they wound up removing the tooth in pieces.... Ick.
After another hour or so, Lin was out, minus a tooth and with several prescriptions. She called Kermit and we waited for him.
He bought me some dinner and gave me a lift home. And Lin tried to *apologize* for "ruining my afternoon". (shaking head in astonishment)
After I got home, I decompressed a bit, and got the card reader set up. I'll have to put some good stuff on a card for Lin and bring it to the munch. I can swap my card for hers then. And try to get my laptop talking to her Braillenote.
I got up at 7am (2 hours earlier than normal) so I could be at the Commission for the Blind when Lin got her BrailleNote. (sort of a Braille PDA/laptop)
After an hour of talking and training, she and I got left to play with it some more for another hour.
We headed over to Lloyd Center to hit the Radio Shack. The Braillenote takes Compact Flash cards. Lin wanted one, and I wanted to get one as well, along with an adapter for my PC so I could exchange files with her.
After that I offered to buy lunch. We had Indian food from a place in the mall's food court. Lin was eating the last bit of her Peanut Butter Chicken, when a bit of bone nailed a temporary filling in one of her teeth.
She could tell that the filling had come out, and thought that a bit more of the tooth had broken. She was in a lot of pain. She decided she needed to see if she could get it taken care of.
She wasn't sure if their new insurance had kicked in yet (they haven't received this years "cards" yet). I told her that I'd loan her the money if necessary so she could get it fixed.
We got lucky, there was a dental place a few hundred feet away, and they were able to fit her in. After about an hour, they came out to ask me to double check some papers (since Lin is effectively blind much of the time, she needs that sort of thing done sometimes).
And that's how I found out that they'd decided that the tooth needed to be extracted. As I later found out, the tooth had cracked in half, and apparently there'd been an infection under the temp filling. As it was, they wound up removing the tooth in pieces.... Ick.
After another hour or so, Lin was out, minus a tooth and with several prescriptions. She called Kermit and we waited for him.
He bought me some dinner and gave me a lift home. And Lin tried to *apologize* for "ruining my afternoon". (shaking head in astonishment)
After I got home, I decompressed a bit, and got the card reader set up. I'll have to put some good stuff on a card for Lin and bring it to the munch. I can swap my card for hers then. And try to get my laptop talking to her Braillenote.
