Sher
Please do drop me a note if you are able to arrange a visit in January... would love to meet.
Carolyn
I do really enjoy being able to meet so many internet friends and acquaintances... definitely well placed for that!!!
This has taken me ages to type... the French dont use the qwerty keyboard layout!!! Aaaagh!

I will be in London between 21 Oct-1 Nov
If you have any GTGS planed for that period. Also anyone a art enthusiast

PL

Any report on the outcome? It seems mk2 was too busy here on these boards to show his face. So predictable.

My dear, whilst I peruse these boards, and comment, I am also up to more pressing matters. I regret that I was unable to attend due to other commitments, and also it was (and indeed still is) frightfully wet outside.

I've just popped in to the Easy Internet Cafe to send and read email from my husband and son. I couldn't resist taking a peek at Fodors. We had a lovely tea at Claridges which I hope to report about after I return to the US the first week in Nov.
Sorry you missed a very pleasant GTG, M_K 2. Same time next year,perhaps?
Judy

m_k2 didn't make the GTG? We wanted pictures. ((a)) ((b))

Well my dear, perhaps you bumped into me on a rainy pavement outside Claridge's or perhaps you didn't.

One could provide you all with pictures of oneself, however, that would spoil things, perhaps I'll have to host a London dinner for you.

I didn't 'bump into' anyone outside the hotel, but perhaps our paths did
cross, M_K2...who knows for certain?
I was the one with the lavender,violet, purple,& black umbrella. It was a rainy afternoon, indeed.
I shall remain in London through Nov. 2. I promise to not bring a camera should you like to arrange a meeting. :-)

Had a most wonderful lunch with Starspinner today at Circus, near Piccadilly Circus.

Unfortunately, whilst walking home from my local tube station I tripped, fell hard and was unable to break my fall with my hands. I fell hard on my face (not sure how my glasses survived) but unfortunately lost a tooth near the gum and had to get some stitches to my lip this afternoon. Lip is currently so swollen I look very much like a very bloodied and grazed duck.

Sigh!

But the GTG was marvellous!

How terrible! And I feel your pain. I tripped on the edge of a sidewalk once while on vacation in Paris, and I managed to "break my fall" - only to end up with two fractured bones in my hand. It kind of put a damper on the rest of my trip.

Fortunately, you had a good GTG first!

Kavey, how terrible! I had a neighbor/friend take a walk a few months ago (good for ones health so they say) and fell. Splat on her face. Broken glasses, broken nose, stiches needed below nose.

I am so sorry. Hope you will recover soon.

And just today my daughter told me a friend of hers is in real bad shape. Went to the dentist for some dental work. Do not know what happened, but the dentist BROKE her jaw.

Has anyone ever heard of this happening?

The dentist broke her jaw? Was it on purpose to correct alignment problems or accidental? Eeek!

I really look funny. Got hub to take photos when we got home from hospital so will post at some time.

Thanks for well wishes... hurts like HECK but given how clumsy I am and have always been it's really not as bad as could easily befall me...

:D

Am hoping to get an emergency appt with dentist tomorrow as I think something is exposed... it's like that feeling you sometimes get having a hot drink after a spoonful of ice cream but a lot lot worse!

Trouble is I don't know if he'll be able to do whatever it is he'll need to do until lip swelling goes down - both in terms of reaching tooth and avoiding resplitting the lip...

:(

Kavey, ooooh, I am so sorry. I had a big dental problem about 3 years ago.

A nightmare. But thanks to a great and carrying dentist all is OK.

My wishes that you also have a good dentist. Think we can all relate to what you must be going through.

My very best wishes. I am so sorry that you are going through this.

Kavey, how terrible! I hope your dentist can help you right away. You may have to rethink meeting with all of us.

I slipped once on a slick floor in a hospital of all places and slammed my face on the floor. I got a beautiful Crayola purple eye where my glasses hit my face.

Carolyn, never! And I'm so clumsy it was just a matter of time... I have fallen before but just bruised or grazed myself...

Hopefully seeing a dentist friend of family today...

Loveitaly, I'm paranoid about dentists at the best of times as too many people I know seem to end up with dentists who insist they need all sorts of treatment - only to find, on changing to a new one, that it wasn't necessary.
Hence I try and see people I know personally which isn't easy as I don't know many dentists!!!

Kavey, here is a story for you. Our dentist for years was the father of our godson. I had a root canal and of course a cap put on. Suffered for years with pain. Exray after exray and was told by this dentist "nope, nothing wrong". And this dentist was highly respected as one of the "best dentist" in his community I might add.

I moved about 30 miles away and consquently got a new dentist. He took Exrays and guess what? The other dentist had left cotton in when he put the cap on! My doctor said it was a wonder I hadn't ended up with an infection of the heart.

New dentist took off cap, removed cotton, new cap etc. and WOW I have never had a problem since.

Makes me mad to this day.

So, think I will stay away from "dentist I know". LOL.

I don't think anyone likes going to a dentist. I should never did. But my new dentist is terrific so I don't freak out now when I have an appointment.

Oh, also, a friend of my daughters just went to a new dentist as her dentist had retired. New dentist a friend of the family. Her very first visit to him.
He was doing a dental procedure and broke her jaw!!! Can you imagine?

This post is sure not going to help you relax. But you will be fine I am sure. Again, sure sorry that you had this fall. Take good care of yourself.

I have a dental appointment in a few days too. Sigh.

Ouch!
I accept that everyone makes mistakes but a professional and responsible adult would own up to their mistakes and rectify them immediately.
Did you report him or feel unable to because of the connection?
I had a root canal today. The dentist (who I went to school with but hadn't seen since but whose father is good friends with my father) tried to do a fix that wouldn't necessitate that step but had me wait to see because he didn't know if it would be sufficient. Unfortunately it wasn't and the sensitivity was agonising so he did the root.
The local anaesthetic wore off an hour or two ago (after several hours - he gave me a high dose to help with the lip pain too) and BINGO! I can drink cold drinks, eat hot food and cope with air being drawn past the tooth as I breathe in without screaming in my head!

Here's Bloody Kavey Duck Face:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=116186
It's harder to see quite how hilariously swollen the lip is if you're not used to what I normally look like - I have very small mouth/ lips normally!
LOL