It’s raining today. Just what I need as I get ready to drive 80 miles to see my mom and go to the dentist. I am also still so very tired. Rain, fatigue and driving is a bad mix. Nothing to be done about it, so I guess I’ll just pump in the caffeine and drive carefully.

No idea if I’ll be spending the night or not, because I have no idea if the dentist is going to want to remove that wisdom tooth that needs to go. Other people probably hate it if they don’t know exactly what a doctor or dentist is going to put them through at their next appointment, but I find myself liking it myself. If I don’t know, I can’t have panic attacks about it. It’s helped my dentist phobia quite a lot, though I think having a dentist I like and trust is what has really helped with that problem. Still just wish he didn’t live 80 miles away.

Lin was a total saint yesterday and on his way back home from Del Rio, he stopped by to check on mom and take her some soft foods to eat. I didn’t even ask him to do that. He came up with the idea on his own. What a wonderful husband! She was thrilled to be checked on and happy to have some tasty things she could eat, and I knew someone I trusted had seen her with his own eyes and could verify she was doing OK. And she is doing OK, in fact, this morning she was sounding quite chipper. It looks like her tooth extraction crisis has passed. Yeah!

The rain seems to be letting up finally, so I better finish getting my stuff together and get ready to go. My appointment is a little after 1 pm, and I don’t want to pull into town and immediately have to go there. I’d like to eat something first, because it’s entirely possible my wisdom tooth will be on the chopping block today. I sort of hope not, but whatever he wants to do in my mouth, he’s free to do it. I want all of this dental stuff to be over with ASAP.

See you when it’s over!