a visit from the tooth fairy for the edentulous
nursemyra takes a couple of days off and all hell breaks loose. one of our patients used his pension cheque to buy street drugs as apparently ours weren’t providing the right sort of hallucinations. then he got some xmas spirit and shared it around resulting in the usual ambulance trip to the bigger hospital up the road for him and two of his mates.
our communications system malfunctioned leaving the gimcrack phoneless and without emergency buzzers for 18 hours. a patient on the 6th floor decided to call the fire brigade (patient’s rooms are not on our switchboard, they all have their own lines) and CK developed more teeth problems.
I thought the majority of CK’s troublesome teeth had been extracted several months ago but there must have been one lying dormant so yesterday he prised most of it out with a butter knife leaving a nasty mess on the dining room table. another callout for the mobile dentist.
you may remember the mobile dentist was accompanied by an attractive assistant last time he came. the assistant was back, this time with a female dentist. funny how our patients’ dental phobias seems to melt away with the appearance of two new bosoms.
CK had his botched extraction cleaned up and was measured for a new partial plate. lucky for him, it will be made of ceramic not from hippopotamus ivory (circa 1800s) or celluloid (circa 1890s) which could possibly melt if he had a hot cup of tea. they do like their tea hot at the gimcrack.
a word of warning if you’re travelling to vietnam like nursemyra sometimes does. take an emergency dental repair kit with you as these are the kind of teeth you could end up with if you eat too much of their delicious sticky coconut candy.

