I had a vasectomy just over ten years ago, at the end of June 2008. The reasoning was fairly simple. When you have two children with severe disabilities, it’s difficult not to conclude that something is up genetically. In any case I was 41, and we had three children and did not want any more. So the choice was between continued use of contraception ( Read more... )

Last May I gloated that having had the flu jab the previous November (ie 2012), I hadn't needed time off work for anything more serious than jet lag since ( Read more... )

Thanks, all for your good wishes re my teeth. I saw the nice stomalogist / maxillary surgeon this afternoon at the curiously named Hôpital Deux Alices in Uccle, and she anaesthetised my jaw thoroughly and whipped out the errant fragments. "No hot food or hot drink this evening," she warned me, but by the time I could feel my mouth enough to be sure ( Read more... )

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An appointment with yet another dentist - an exotic endodontist this time - to try and pin down my continuing left upper molar problems. Root canal surgery booked for later this month. Ooogh.

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I have a sore tooth. It's the one that was completely replaced at huge expense last year after I broke it on an olive stone. I am seeing the dentist at lunchtime, and hope that they will sort it out.

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