-My friend Hillary had a fall baking party on Sunday. We noshed on pumpkin bread, pumpkin rolls, pumpkin scones, and pumpkin cookies. Kat and I were the only non-pumpkin bakers. She made homemade donuts and I made apple pie cookies, which tasted like little mini apple pies. (While looking for a good fall dessert recipe, I revisited one of my favorite food blogs, smitten kitchen. Not only did it provide the perfect fall recipe for the baking party, but it reminded me how much I LOVE trying her recipes. Tonight I made mushroom bourguignon. It was AMAZING, just like the cookies were.)
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| I even got to use my new cooling rack! |
-I've been working on making my Halloween costume. I've had moderate success and some epic failures. I'll show pictures after my costume debuts next weekend. Until then, it's a secret. Speaking of Halloween costumes, my Aunt Bernadette sent me this comic strip in the mail today. Most people that read this blog know of my fear of E.T., which is why this particular strip was sent to me. Thankfully, E.T. is not a very popular Halloween costume, otherwise this holiday would be quite far down on my favorites list.
-The landscapers are putting in the winter grass in my apartment complex. Boring, but one of Arizona's only true signs of fall.
-The local froyo shop is selling pumpkin spice frozen yogurt. I went on a froyo date with Allie and her dog Ramona tonight. I filled my dish with pumpkin spice and glazed pecan flavors. It was delish and the company wasn't half bad either.
In completely unrelated news, I've gotten to do/see some pretty awesome procedures this week (and it is only Wednesday!). Yesterday, we had a OS surgery in which we extracted about 6 teeth and removed some mandibular and maxillary tori to prepare for giving this guy dentures. For those of you not in the know, tori are big outgrowths of bone in the mouth and can occur on the roof of the mouth or along the inside of the jaw. (I was going to post a picture, but figured it would gross some people out. If you are interested, go google "palatal torus" to see kind of what it looked like). They are completely normal but not everyone has them. They don't cause any problems, unless you are trying to make a denture, in which case the tori are a huge pain and need to be removed. This patient had them in both locations and needs dentures, so we got to see something cool. First, the surgeons uncovered the tori by moving the gum tissue and then tried to chisel them off. (Yes, they tried with a chisel and hammer. "Just some light tapping here, sir." Good thing we had this guy so doped up on drugs that he didn't care!) When that didn't work, which was apparently unusual, they had to resort to sanding them off with the drill. Then they sewed the guy back up and la-dee-dah away he went. Today, we uncovered some implants and placed healing caps on. This involved cutting open the gums to uncover the implants (which were buried underneath the gums and not at all visible in the mouth...standard practice to do this after placing them). Then, you used a teeny-tiny screwdriver to unscrew the top of the implant. Then you screwed a new "healing cap" into the implant and sutured (sewed) the gums around the top parts, which are now sticking into the mouth. In a few weeks, we will be able to place an abutment and finally a crown on top. It was pretty cool. Next week, we get to do an apicoectomy. This procedure involves doing a root canal, but rather than going through the crown of the tooth (the part we see in the mouth) like normal, you access the apex (top of the root normally deep in the bone) but cutting through the gums and removing bone. Then you open the apex of the tooth (the portion always surrounded by bone) and put a filling material in from that end. It should be really interesting.
And that is it for now.
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