Self-Portrait With Root Canal

It's been a medical week, and car accidents offer few laughs.

So let's look at something really funny, like root canal.

Not from the patient's point of view, though nitrous oxide, novocaine and favorite CDs on the headphones do help.

But how does the endodontist keep a straight face?

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Could Have Been Worse

"Paula" posted a question about whether I am still on speaking terms with my next-door neighbor, who backed into me with his SUV while I was mowing my lawn on Sunday, sending me to the hospital in an ambulance with my neck in a brace.

How this freak accident happened I attempted to describe in Tuesday and Wednesday's Plain Sight.

The answer to Paula's question is...

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On Trauma Bay 3

Luck is when you have been struck by a car backing down a driveway (see yesterday's post), suffered a mild concussion, a hairline skull fracture, various contusions and abrasions, and yet are not in such terrible shape that you can't look at your surroundings with interest.

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Near Death, But Not Too

No, this picture is not upside down. But if you are lying on your back on a gurney in a Level 1 Trauma Center, and your neck is in a brace, as mine was, about all you can do is tilt the camera up and backwards.

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For a Limited Time Only...

...it's rhubarb season.

Strawberries have their place, but their place is not with rhubarb.

I won't call it culinary cowardice, but the knee jerk reflex to dumb down the unique and refreshing tang of rhubarb, one of spring's greatest gifts, by combining it with strawberries turned to mush abuses both 'barb and berry.

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Can't Explain

Why do I have this thing about trucks? Not all trucks, just ones that for some reason arrest my attention. Like this one down the Shore, that I followed for a block or two until I could get close enough to take a picture.

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Sure Beats Winter

Yes, May has been cool and rainy, with just a few gorgeous days, but we must keep things in perspective.

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