I have been up for a long time today. The dog woke me up at 4:30 am and it just seemed easier to stay up than to try and go back to sleep for an hour. Now it seems I am staying up far too late as well.
But I got a lot of stuff done today and that feels good. I have learned a lot of stuff from Randall over the past couple of days about this web page. And It is starting to make more sense and I think I am catching on a little bit. Got some things working that I have been trying to get going for awhile without success and organized some other stuff.
Going to meet and pray with God and a few friends is also a good way to start the day. I’m becoming hooked – probably already am – on Gate Crashers.
Today was one of those days when I got to do one of those little special tasks that I learned to do a few years ago. Went up to the hospital to take an impression of a newborns mouth. The baby was born with a cleft palate. While I was there, I was asked to see a second baby as well – funny how these things seem to come in batches.
I am usually called to do this – a sort of weird hobby I guess – a small interuption in the daily schedule. Anyway it saves the mom and newborn a trip to Saskatoon to have this done and it gets these little ones off to a better start. I get one of our labs to make the first little feeding plate so that the baby can suckle. The plate helps to separate the mouth from the nasal cavity so that the baby can create some suction and nurse. And it keeps some of the milk from going up into the nose. Tube feeding doesn’t have to be done and the plate usually helps to cut down on ear infections in these little guys. They need to gain weight so they can have their first lip repairs done as early as possible.
Tomorrow I will get to go and show the mom how to put the little plate in and take it out. Kind of a nice change from routine dentistry.
This evening I needed to attend a meeting of soccer parents too. We have this big fundraiser coming up that was originally intended to help get the girls to National playoffs in Nova Scotia. Now that they aren’t going, we have to decide what to do with the funds. So we are planning a neat wind-up for the girls and will likely start a fund to help other teams get to playoffs, etc. Maybe even start a fund for a new soccer facility here. The girls on the team have all become good friends and we parents have gotten to know each other pretty well and if the girls keep playing, we will have several years when we spend a lot of time together. Kids do provide good opportunities for meeting others and developing friendships.
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