Mental Dental.
I'm looking forward to working with a dental surgeon specialist. I made him laugh years ago when I asked him if we were doing anesthesia on his patient because they had special needs and were unable to hold still for a cleaning/dental work. This is a special skill I learned years ago at a local Children's Hospital. The inside way, back in the day and certainly not now, was that term. Sometimes it requires an injectable tranquilizer to even get the patient to the room to start the i.v., depending on their reaction.
He'd never heard of that term before, and found it amusing. We will get back to him in a short time.
We started a series on the FB page to help ask people questions, exclusively for the purpose of alerting the sleeping to the reality that lots of people are more awake than they are, in the most gentle of possible ways. We ask a question such as 'when did you take the Red Pill' and everyone answers appropriately, the vast majority, and a few ask, 'what IS this Red Pill?'. The others try to answer it for them, but again, it's a difficult concept. What amazes us are the silent majority who read this and think it to themselves, 'what IS this Red Pill everyone knows about?'
This is why Gaia Rejoices in this new Gaia Portal.
The giant frozen glacier of unconsciousness is starting to move!
I will add two more 'dental' stories before returning to the dentist mentioned above.
This story here is one I've seen over and over in my career--the patient who doesn't want to remove their dentures for surgery. It's recommended because dentures are expensive and are at risk for breaking. (Dentures are much better for anesthesia than implants. Implants are typically longer than natural teeth, making the view of the airway poor and furthermore are in harm's way from the laryngoscope. Plus they are super, duper expensive! )
What I get from these patients isn't an outright refusal to remove them. We get an advertisement for how incredible the glue is that holds them in, and NOTHING can overcome it!
I politely cough. My skill set is unique, I work in people's mouths every day, for twenty years, and never once have I been unable to remove such a set of dentures held by such glue. All it takes is breaking the air seal and in thirty seconds of less the teeth are out! And out of harm's way.
There is no way a patient who isn't an anesthesiologist or OR nurse can understand what my skill set is. So even if the glue makes it difficult for them to remove--their angle and state of consciousness is completely different from mine with a patient who is asleep for surgery.
In this we have a situation where two perspectives are completely right, and one is not able to see the other's view/perspective at all.
Hence, the prayer for awareness.
Some people just don't want to hear the truth that their denture glue isn't like advertised in the OR, and it's okay to just go with it and let the doctor do what the doctor needs to do. Be willing to let them try. It's for your own safety.
No one cares how you look without your teeth at the hospital except you. I've had a wife whose husband of fifty years never knew she wore dentures. We kept her secret for her. As soon as she was awake enough not to choke on them, we put them in, long, long, long before her husband ever saw her, and we didn't say a word...So TRUST in humanity, and trust in others, and let us do our jobs to keep you safe.
All of you.
The next part to talk about is MY lack of awareness.
In the states, if you open a new tube of toothpaste, there's a little metal-colored plastic seal over the end, with a tab and you pull it. If you open a new tube of cortisone cream, then there's actual metal over the end, and the lid has a little poking sharp thing built into the side that faces out. You turn it around, poke a hole, and can get the cream out.
I opened a new tube of Meridol, a German toothpaste last night. I totally forgot how I'd done it before. I bit at it, and I tried scissors but it wouldn't work. There's actually a hex shape hole in the opposite side of the cap. You flip it, and use it like a wrench to take that plastic tab off. Only I'd stripped it by the time I remembered.
What did I do at eleven at night tired to the bones and ready for sleep?
I took the little sharp part of the nail clippers, the file thing, and I stabbed a tiny opening into the tube so I could brush my teeth with toothpaste!
When there's a will there's a way.
So, in summary, we had a situation where in our own views, a patient (many patients!) and I were both correct. I also had a situation where I was wrong, and even though in the past I'd opened the toothpaste it was culturally something super difficult for me but totally easy for someone from Europe.
Awareness is the solution.
Back to my dentist.
He's a New Yorker with a thick accent, actually, a New York Jewish man. He has strong opinions about everything, and he talks politics and things the whole case.
But it doesn't bug me.
It actually endears him to me.
It's just him.
Out of all the people in the world, and all the politics I hate hate hate to listen to, for some reason with him I totally don't mind. I enjoy his company, his view.
I know he respects me, professionally and as a person. And in return, I respect HIM, professionally and as a person.
It goes both ways.
So--when people go off the deep end when they take the red pill involuntarily, or perhaps, a little late to the party--be respectful of them both professionally and as a person.
I've had a patient crying because of the denture situation--'why don't you just believe me?!' It wasn't pretty. Some people are very very very attached to their perceptions. Things can get ugly really fast. Just reassure the person in their fearful state you are there for their well-being, everything is going to be okay, you are going to take good care of them, and then do the absolute minimum to provoke them from that point out.
You can't win them all.
It's time for one of my favorite surgeons!
Ross has been near, and close. He's not saying anything except to tell you, 'I love you very much and I am proud of all your achievements at awakening'.
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Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,
Peace,
Ross and Carla
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