MORE REMINISCING!

This will be yet another story, which doesn’t include SGT. DR. MILKO but is about him/ me, since I guess, I am SGT. DR. MILKO . Any ways, I’M going to try to write about what things, maybe would’ve happened had I never gone boating that day. I would’ve continued on with my DENTAL practice. This is so hard to say because it’s been six years that I’VE been retired now. And I can’t really even THINK about going back into DENTISTRY. I mean I was very interested in DENTISTRY it was very technical, thought provoking . Thought provoking, compared to just sitting around all day playing SOLITAIRE, or writing silly stories. One thing, I think I’VE mastered SOLITAIRE. That’s not something I want to tell my grandkids. But hey, from where I sit, here in my DOGHOUSE, writing a story, that’s all I CAN do. Doncha think if I could do more, I would? Well, at least I’M making FUSED GLASS bugs after having written a story about how I came about them. Good thing, is they’re kind of fun to make. I feel kind of fortunate to have an aunt who makes these bugs for fun. She showed me how to make these bugs one day. And some day I may, hopefully, sell these bugs as artwork as they ARE kind of cool little works of art. And just imagining that they’re off worldly makes them even cooler! Oh yeah I forgot, I was gonna describe what life would have been like, possibly, had I not been brain injured. I would’ve, possibly gotten very involved in organized DENTISTRY, as I was already involved in it. Possibly trying to move up the ranks in the, first of all, SACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL SOCIETY, then the CALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION. This would’ve been tough but becoming a DENTIST in the first place was no easy task. And since, I had done something that I had never even given any thought to ten years prior to becoming. What I think I was, a very skilled DENTIST, yeah I could’ve done it, become some big wig at the CDA in the very least a big wig in the SDDS. This is so hard to write because it’s been so long. But, here goes. My routine before was to wake up, eat some cereal, probably, once in a while I would make myself an egg, but, generally BARB would make me something. She would actually get the whole family up and out the door filling all of our tummies with something good to start our day, as a matter of fact I can’t hardly remember a day, since we’ve been married where I’VE made ANYTHING for myself. Then, I would stroll next door to my DENTAL office, and find out/ ask JINNY who my first patient was going to be . Probably a cleaning, or maybe some SERALANTS, rarely an EXTRACTION, or maybe if I was lucky someone would need a crown, what the lay public would call a CAP. I used to try to do one CROWN a day, in order to keep my head above water, monetarily. It was a hard thing to do, do a crown a day. But, that’s what, according to a financial practice consultant, I needed to do. It was so very hard because people generally didn’t NEED CROWNS as often as, supposedly, I should’ve been cranking them out I mean I felt like I was doing a good enuff job at making a living. However, obviously not compared to a great many other DENTISTS who, at the time, I felt were, possibly just manufacturing the need by some patients for a crown. I feel a lot of times this is done at the patients expense. A lot of DENTISTS still do this and, probably always will. I mean sure, I may not have always diagnosed the patient properly as to whether they might need a crown. However, I never would’ve said they needed a crown just so I could do a crown a day. I think it’s despicable to treat anyone that way. Of course, it’s easy for me to write crap like this because I’LL NEVER even HOPE to do DENTISTRY again. Now, I know I’M gonna catch hell for writing this from my former colleagues. However, if they were real smart they’d use this to bring in new patients by advertising, possibly, that they DON’T try to maintain a quota OF CROWNS and then privately maintain that QUOTA.

Ok so sorry I got off track a little bit there, talking about DENTAL finances. I haven’t had any reason to think about that for over six years. In some ways I’M glad but at the same time I really miss all that. In some ways I feel as if I’M not able to contribute my share to mankind. I certainly can’t give away my DENTAL services like, apparently, I used to. Now, I know for sure, I’LL never be capable of doing DENTISTRY again, at least not up to par with what I used to be capable of. However, there has gotta be a greater purpose that GOD’S saved me so many times for. I just don’t what that is. I hope I find out soon because I’M getting sick&tired of just playing computer games like SOLITAIRE, QUAKE, or DOOM.