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Hayfield Dental Care

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If you live in the Alexandria are and your looking for a dentist, think about visiting Hayfield Dental Care. Hayfield Dental has been treating residents of the Alexandria area for the last 19 years, and they say that comes to a total of more than 23,000 patients. That’s a lot of teeth to have taken care of isn’t it?

The dentists that work in the clinic have advanced or specialty training which means that you can have all of your dental needs taken care of in their office, without having to go elsewhere for special treatments. Services for you and your family include general, family,orthodontic and cosmetic dentistry. One nice feature of the Hayfield Dental Care clinic is that all orthodontic consults for children and adults are free of charge.

The clinic has all of the latest and most up to date equipment, and their dentists have perfect records with the Virginia Board of Dentistry. There’s been no complaints against any of their dentists. If you are interested in learning more about the Hayfield Dental Care Clinics services please call them at 703-971-2220.





Still off work

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I just realized that while I posted about my various doctors appointments last week, I never did tell you what happened when I went to see the Occupational health doctor at my workplace on Friday.

I guess I didn’t post about it on Friday because I felt so upset. Not at the doctor. Not at all. He was so sympathetic.

I walked into his office – after waiting an hour for my appointment, he’s always behind – and as soon as he saw me he knew I didn’t have good news. I told him that my gastrointernologist wants me to do the Camera Pill sometime in January. Yeah, I have to swallow a camera. I might just be the only totally digital human you know. LOL

Naturally that means I’m still undergoing medical tests and that I’m still not doing well. No kidding huh?

He just looked at me and shook his head saying “Your so young” … “Your seeing the best of the best, If anyone can figure out what’s going on with you and how to get you better he can”. He really thought, or rather hoped, that I’d come and tell him that we were going to try something new, or that the doctor knew something that he could do that would make me feel better. That wasn’t the case though.

The occ health doctor felt so bad for me, that his sympathetic words actually made me cry. The worst thing to do when I’m upset or feeling sad is to be sympathetic towards me or to give me a hug – that just starts the flood gates.

Anyway, I walked out of there with my next appointment scheduled for March 9th or 10th, 2007. So I’m off work until at least that time.

That also means that I have no income coming in either, except for whatever I can generate on my own through the blogs, and my websites.

Sore Loser

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I’m totally out of it after the race to put together the puzzle. I had massive internet connection problems from 3 pm Thursday until sometime this afternoon, so in the final portion of the puzzle race I was fighting an internet connection that was slower than a dial up connection. It’s a wonder that I even managed to collect all the puzzle pieces and post my completed puzzle within a few minutes of the end of the contest. Yes, it was close!

I paid the price though. I was up from Wednesday Morning until 2 am Thursday puzzle hunting. Then I slept from 2 am until 5:30 am this morning and then got up to hunt for the final two puzzle pieces. The contest ended at about 11:45 when Colleen beat me and a few others by submitting the puzzle first. I crashed on the couch at 1:30 pm or so and woke up a bit after 4 pm. I guess today, in two short periods of sleep I kind of caught up, but I feel terrible. I’m wiped out, my eyes are burning, I’m light headed and my abdomen is aching like crazy. Yeah- when I don’t manage to get some sleep the Crohns really flares.

Thanks Ted for dragging out the contest. LOL Now it’s going to take me a week or two to recover ’cause I think it made my Crohns flare worse. I wish I wouldn’t jump at challenges the way I do. I’m a total A type personality. Of course I was taunted with the possibility of winning $1000 and if you’ve been reading this site for anytime you know I’m not working because of the Crohns so I really did need that money. That’s why I pushed myself so hard. I’m going to pay for it.

Two very kind people helped me at one point or another during the contest. I won’t mention their names here just in case they don’t want others to know, but I will say that I totally appreciate their help and kindness and I’ll try to help them out in some way in the future. Thank you!

The cost of having a baby

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There’s a new heath insurance related product called Maternity card, by AHCO, that was created to help ease the stress and worry over the cost of having a baby. I can see this Maternity card being especially useful for my American readers.

Having a baby can be an expensive proposition when you factor in all of the costs – your doctors visits, or perhaps you are having twins or have a complication to your pregnancy that requires you to be under the care of a specialist? Then there is the cost of the actual labour and delivery itself and your, hopefully, short hospital stay after the birth of your new baby. All of that adds up into the thousands doesn’t it?

The experts at Maternity Card can formulate a pregnancy discount medical plan for you to keep the cost of having your baby from going through the roof. Maternitycard will provide you with a comprehensive maternity package that includes everything related to your maternity care.

If you are pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant in the near future you might want to visit Maternitycard.com and have a look at what they can do for you to ease your stress and worry over maternity expenses. This is a time for you to be happy and looking forward to the future – not worrying over money.

It was supposed to be Christmas

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Yesterday, Sunday, was supposed to have been Christmas for me and two of my siblings, and our spouses. It didn’t happen.

I’d been feeling nauseated all week, and then on Friday evening Chris started complaining that he felt nauseated too. When we woke up on Saturday and realized that neither of us felt very good we decided that we’d better call my sister and my brother and let them know that this was a sick house.

Each year we take turns and go to one or the others home for a Christmas get together. It’s not always on Christmas day, in fact it rarely is. My brothers wife’s parents are getting older and since our own parents are gone they usually see her parents every year. My sister is divorced but she usually spends Christmas with her kids who are off to school and no longer live with her full time, and Chris and I usually end up going to his parent for Christmas if we aren’t working. We’re the only ones that do shift work that sometimes ends up making it impossible to see our relatives on special holidays.

Anyway, this year it was my turn to hold our Christmas gathering, but it just didn’t work out. Now we’re going to get together early in the New Year, probably here since it was my turn.

I think it actually worked out for the best anyway. My sister works in the jewelry trade and she’s been working long long hours 7 days a week through the Christmas rush. It would have stressed her to have to stop to come over for a while- even if it would have been good for her. Then there’s my sister in law, she works in retail sales and she’s been working long hours lately too. She had Sunday off, but after she came home from work on Saturday and learned that she’d have a free day on Sunday – maybe that was good for her. She could rest for the busy week ahead.

Ironically enough both Chris and I felt a lot better on Sunday so we probably could have had our get together after all.

So what are your plans for Christmas? Do you travel some distance to get together with family, or do you stay home and either have everyone over to your home, or just have a quite family day?

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