We left for Algodones at 8:15am as our dental appointments were at 9:00. We arrived right at 9:00 and the office girls gave us big hugs and we showed pictures of my grand kids and her children. I feel so terrible as I can never remember her name but she is just a sweetheart! She told me I was to see Dr. Castro today. I normally see Dr. Juan whom I really like as well. I asked if Dr. Juan was still there and she said yes. I think the reason I'm now seeing Dr. Castro again is because last year I talked to Dr. Castro and told her the reason I'd been going to Dr. Juan is that she's so busy I can never get an appointment with her. Every time I went in to see Dr. Juan last year, she would come into his room to say hello to me. She is also a sweetheart but sometimes drives me nuts as she is always saying 'Thank You Miss Carol', like 50 times during an appointment. I do really love her though. We only sat a few minutes when they called me in. I talked to Dr. Castro about putting facings on my front teeth to get rid of the white spots but she said my teeth were so strong, she did not want to remove the top surface to do the facings. She said she could drill the white areas and place a bonding on them but they would pick up stains and discolor. We talked a lot about it and I decided to leave them as is.
Larry went in to see Dr. Castro next. He has a tooth that he knew needed work so when Dr. checked it she sent him to Dr. Gaspar, the Endodontist. He took xrays and found he had a root canal on tooth but it did not go completely down to bottom of the apex of the root. Dr. Gaspar redid the root canal and then sent us to Dr. Garcia, the Periodontist that did our implants. Dr. Garcia cut the gum away from the tooth at the gum line and then we went back to Dr. Gaspar. He made Larry an appointment to come back February 25 to have a post placed in the tooth and the same day he goes to Dr. Castro to prepare it for a crown. By the time he finished with all the dentist, it was 12:30 so we went to the pharmacy to fill a couple of prescriptions. After the pharmacy, we went to have lunch and a few beer at our favorite bar. Brenda, who is the sweet little Mexican waitress from last year gave me a big hug and kiss and said she was so happy to see me. She waited on us and I didn't see our 1-armed waiter from last year around. I asked Brenda about him and she said he moved to San Luis, which is a very poor place. I told Larry I bet they let him go at the bar because the other male waiter that works there is a real 'ass' and I don't think he liked the other guy. Last year there was some nastiness from the male waiter that is still there. I can't stand him to wait on us as he has such a nasty personality. We drank beer till about 3:00 and Larry went up to check on how long the line for the border crossing was. He came back and told me we needed to go as it was not very long. We only waited about 30 minutes to get across. Judy had told us that the Border Guards had been moving people across at a much better pace this year. Normally with the number of people lined up today we would have waited an hour and a half at least.
We came home and then Larry ran over to Al's RV to find out if our water softener part had come in yet, got a haircut and paid for another month here since it looks like we will be staying to get his dental work completed. While he was gone, I read for a short time before falling asleep. About 6:00 we went down to Parrish's Bar for dinner. Came home and felt good to just sit and relax.
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