Amy had her scheduled asthma check-up at the hospital today. This week, she has been coughing a little, with a rather nasty attack early this morning. I think it's a follow-on from the mild cold we all have. BUT it means another month of preventive meds. I also made sure the dark circles under her eyes are not from the medication, to satisfy Baachan who is getting concerned about how long Amy has been taking medication and was staring to worry that it was a permanenet side-effect. But he agreed with me that it was just tiredness - all that coughing keeps us all awake, every cough jars me.
Then it was Lena's turn. The practice session was a brilliant idea! Because of it she RAN into the surgery, and was only momentarily upset when she had to sit in a different chair. There are three chairs in a row, and the dental nurses prepare patients and do basic stuff while the dentist goes from one patient to the next. Japan's version of patient confidentiality is for everyone to pretend they can't actually hear what's going on one metre away.
She leapt into the chair, and immediately started to play with the water cup. Then she had a go with the vacuum. Then it was time to begin, and she was a bit surprised but it did not appear to hurt, and she calmed down. He drilled, cleaned, then put in the putty, then cleaned again. The second cleaning appeared to be the most uncomfortable for her. But her patience was wearing out by the time of the second cleaning, and it was then that she screamed. She had a brief cuddle with me (I was holding her hands) and sat down for 'just a little more'. The dentist sang to her 'Lena's such a good girl, a good girl, a good girl'. Then when it was all over he let her play again with the equipment so her last memory would be a fun one. We are due to go back the week after next to do a small cavity in her next tooth along.
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