tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37291817.post6078712784025630978..comments2024-03-27T09:13:32.912+00:00Comments on News From Nowhere: Lifestyle Change : The Knockout BlowAlan Burnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01015127443616786425noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37291817.post-67473145012853916412007-10-29T19:54:00.000+00:002007-10-29T19:54:00.000+00:00When Jane and I tried a new dentist (way back) in ...When Jane and I tried a new dentist (way back) in Summertown, the man started to warm to the theme of changing my sweet/ chocolate-eating habits .. off his own presumptions (I sometimes get a phase of eating quite a lot of chocolate but by no means all the time)....<BR/><BR/>Then he caused Jane a terrible time using an unsuitable local anasthetic....<BR/><BR/>So we changed dentists. I absolutely refused to go back and used phrases like "The man's a fool." <BR/><BR/>Ages lkater... the new man tried to insist I lay off smoking whilst some jaw-bone-chewing mini-surgery (literally that) healed... I said, oh, don't worry about that, you'll find I've healed almost perfectly and remarkably fast by the next time you see me...<BR/><BR/>When he next saw me, he said "Well, it's healed beautifully, you must have stopped smoking"... I said "Oh, no, of course not. I enjoy it. I just heal quickly, I know that, I've known myself all my life, after all." <BR/><BR/>He said "I give up!", Isaid "Thank goodness!"...<BR/><BR/>He's a nice man, he appreciated I spoke with good humour and appreciated he truly believed I should have stopped smoking.<BR/><BR/>Maybe I should. But not for that reason. And Nicotine gum makes my mouth sore and my already dicky digestion worse than it is.<BR/><BR/>As the song says "It's my life"....Edwin Osbornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15892411809138609516noreply@blogger.com