Dreams Can Come True

Dreams Can Come True



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A guest post by Halley M. who also happens to be my 8 yo granddaughter.  Still this story was chosen over thousands submitted from all across the country.   No nepotism on this blog!

 

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE

by Halley M.

 



Abigail loved to sing. She would always do it. But, she couldn`t it in front of a lot of people. One day when she went to school, she had a dream in one of her classes. “Abigail! Abigail, wake up!” said her teacher. None of her friends knew that she had stage fright. When her friend Lila came over to study with Abigail, she had to blurt out she had it. Lila was very surprised with Abigail. Lila's dad was a record producer. He could make Abigail famous. So her dad decided to make Abigail better at performing.

Soon Abigail grew better. She thought that she could do a show. So she recorded her song and went home. One day someone came and deleted her song. So she recorded it again. One day Lila`s dad told Abigail that she could perform at one of the biggest concerts ever!!! There would be people like Taylor Swift, 1 Direction, And Selena Gomez. When it was time to perform, Abigail tried to get over her stage fright, but she didn`t. But then she just sang, she felt free. She felt like she felt never before. Abigail was Abigail, she felt like herself. She said “I can`t believe I just sang in front of a ton of people.

So for the rest of her life she felt like a true princess. She had dreams. Abigail thanked Lila`s dad and forever loved him.

Dreams can come true.


Last night Halley performed in her first piano recital.  She played very well,   even though  I am guessing she might have been a little nervous.
   

A DENTIST IS A DENTIST part II

A DENTIST IS A DENTIST part II

 

When we last left the Cranky Old Man, he was forced to leave his long trusted dentists in order to continue his insurance coverage. 

If you missed yesterday's post it is not too late to catch up here:
 http://joeh-crankyoldman.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-dentist-is-dentist.html

OK, now on to part II

One year ago, I had a tooth start to act up.  It was a tooth that had a root canal done on it years ago and now had a slight infection.  Two years before, Dr. Dembinski had given me some anti-biotic for the same tooth when it "acted-up" and that did the trick. 

I went to my new dentist, Dr. Patel, hoping the same anti-biotic would again do the trick.  I had seen Dr. Patel only once, for an insurance required referral for an extraction.  He signed the referral very well.  Mrs. Cranky thought he was a "little creepy."  I ignored her woman's instinct for "creepy" and said, "come on, a dentist is a dentist." 

Dr. Patel told me my problem was I had a very unusual tooth.  It had a fourth root that was missed by my previous doctor and not treated.  That was what was causing me my pain.  It needed another root canal and a crown, an expensive and time consuming procedure. 

I was about to go on a two week vacation and asked for the anti-biotic to stem the discomfort until I returned.  I thought it unusual that my trusted dentist of over 35 years would miss a root in an ex-ray.  Dr. Patel wrote a prescription and told me to return after vacation to fix the tooth for good.

I did not go back. 

That tooth has not bother me since, but I recently had another tooth act up.  I had forgotten Dr. Patel’s number, so I looked it up on the internet.  Here is what I found:

Metuchen dentist charged with falsifying dental records of 3 children, grandmother killed in South Plainfield fire –

Dr. Patel had been committing insurance fraud and was caught because of faulty dental records used to identify victims of a fire.

Then I looked for reviews of Dr. Patel’s work: 

	3/8/12	1	1	1	1	and.... now he's in jail for malpractice...busted! http://www.MyCentralJersey.com/article/20120308/NJNE...|mostview  Paid/Co-pay: $1111	Respond
	10/24/11	1	1	1	1	Stay away from this guy. Rip offffff... Glad I met dr. Susan krutyansky in metuchen.  Insurance: Aetna	Respond
	9/21/07	2	2	4	3	I am the same person that have rated here Dr.Patel as good doc on 09/14/07. I should say what happened to me after that. The waiting was pathetic at the room for the root canal procedure say about 55 mins. After giving the numbing injection he said after 15 mins he will be back, but i saw him after 55 mins. Please be very careful and make sure several times that the prescribed medication is for the right purposes. Eg: He told me to take antibiotics & wrote down painkiller medication only but did not include the antibiotic. The receptionist was trying to defend that the doc prescribed the antibio in the paper, but i got the copy of the prescribed paper from walgreens & YESS the doc was wrong. I think he knows what he's doing but VERY VERY CARELESS . Good luck.....  Insurance: Aetna	Respond

   

10/24/12		1	1		1		1		This Doctor ruined my mouth.....he split my tooth in half while putting in a crown then was forced to do extraction. While doing extraction he broke a peice of my jaw off and left it under the Gum. A year later I had excrutiating pain went to another dentist and he was the one who told me my jaw was broken......guess what another surgery. I am debating whether or not to sue but now I think he's in jail?		Respond

 

Hmmm…Maybe a dentist is not always a dentist.

I went back to Noonan and Dembinski.  If I can’t get different insurance I will just have to find a way to pay.  I would rather lose the money than lose my mouth!

And I am going to take a wild guess that the other tooth does NOT have a fourth root!

A DENTIST IS A DENTIST

A DENTIST IS A DENTIST - part I

 

Have you ever been to a bad dentist?  Of course you don’t really know you have a bad dentist until you go to a good one.  When you have a good dentist you start to wonder about all your previous experiences with a dentist. 

“Oh, this cavity is in a really bad location, it is very hard to reach.  I’ve never seen anything quite like it!”

“This Novocain will hurt just a bit.”

“This might be a bit tricky.”

Years ago I went to a dentist who could not even fill a cavity.  He took an hour for a single filling.  He was pretty much all thumbs.  He did double up on the Novocain, gave me plenty of laughing gas, and played some “Stones” through a pair of headphones while he labored.  My teeth hurt like hell hours later, but it was as close as I ever got to a real drug experience.

I found another dentist 38 years ago, the office of Dr. Noonan, and Dr. Dembinski.  In all those years, I never had a filling take over 20 minutes to drill and fill.  The Novocain shot never hurt, and nothing was ever “tricky!”

I never had to wait past my appointment time…ever!

One Saturday morning I was 10 minutes late for a nine o’clock appointment with Dr. Noonan.   Dr. Noonan prided himself in never falling behind schedule.  He shot my tooth up with Novocain, and returned three minutes later to drill.  It usually took ten minutes for the Novocain to kick in.  It still took ten minutes for it to kick in on this Saturday.

I was never late for an appointment with Dr. Noonan again.

One time Dr. Dembinski did tell me a root canal job was going to be tricky.  He recommended a specialist for this job.  I questioned why it needed a specialist as he had successfully done several root canals on my mouth in the past.

“Well, my experience and several years of Dental College tell me I should not try to do this root canal, I think you need someone who specializes in this particular situation…but if you’d like me to try…”

I never questioned Dr. Dembinski’s expertise again.

When I retired several years ago, Drs. Noonan and Dembinski were not in my new insurance plans network.  I needed to find a new dentist.

I found one even closer to where I lived, “Smiley Faces” run by a Dr. Paresh Patel.  I wanted to save money so I signed up with Dr. Patel.  A dentist is a dentist right?

Tomorrow - A DENTIST IS A DENTIST - part II