Closing the barn door

Matt is my daughter (Deb) and her husband (Darwin)'s youngest - in the picture he is the one with his mouth open, wearing glasses - the blondie is his older brother Aric - what follows is just a typical day in the life of Matthew - or rather one of the many adventures he has had in his eleven years

The day of December 5th, 2008

This morning Deb phoned, she said during the conversation that she had told Matt if he wanted to play floor hockey at school today he had to take his mouth guard and his helmet to school.

LOL....this is like closing the barn door after the horses have gone.

Yesterday my day started off with a call from Deb at her work, I was asleep when the call came. "Could you go to the school and pick up Matt and take him to the dentist, he was playing floor hockey before school and got hit in the mouth and has a chipped tooth"

I rolled out of bed, brushed my teeth, dressed, got in the jeep, drove through the local A&W got a breakfast bun and headed for the school about 20 mins. from my home. I arrived to find Matt on the couch in the entrance, a teacher Mrs. G came out, I said "oh god" after seeing his mouth, she said "I've wanted to say that ever since it happened" she also said "every time I have to put him back together I get another grey hair, I am about to send Matt the bill for my hairdresser."

Matt opened his mouth to show me his latest war wound, chipped tooth be damned! His front upper tooth on his right side is broken in half at a 45 degree angle, his lower tooth directly below the upper tooth is broken almost to the gum. As we leave Mrs. G says "do you have your milk?"

We load into the jeep his hockey stick, his back pack and a small container which holds milk and head to the dentists office. On arriving Matt goes to the back of my jeep and takes out the container of milk, I say "why are you bringing that in are you thirsty?" he says "no, it's got my teeth in it!"

After an hour and a half in the dentist chair, two partial root canals, x-rays and a skim of enamel on the two broken teeth we find that another tooth on the bottom has a small fracture in it also. I pick up some bananas, soft ice-cream and we come back to my place with his lips swollen. As he had said he was hungry I made up a smoothie with the bananas and ice-cream, we picked up a couple of straws when we got the ice cream, he drank some of the first glass and asked for a cloth as the smoothie had "fell" out of his mouth on my area carpet.

This is the child that walked up the slide at the pool backwards and collided with his mother and older brother coming down the slide. The one that just recently had his head stitched up with needle and thread by his father during a camping trip.

Lord, he does cause some us mental anguish, his parents seem to take all this in stride but his grandmother and one of the teachers at his school are and were a wreck most of the day yesterday and every time he gets a new war wound.

Yesterday Deb was at work, and his dad was driving to Kelowna on business, that is why grandma ended up sitting and watching Matt have what was left of his teeth drilled. Yuck! If no infection sets in and the teeth nerves were not permanently damaged the dentist in January will attempt to attach the broken pieces to the teeth.

That is the story of my yesterday.

P.S.I am happy to say that yes, the pieces of the broken teeth were saved and re-attached in January of this year, no infections surfaced and the teeth remained healthy