Trip To The Denist--Part Three

Trip To The Denist--Part Three

Maybe this should read Part Four, as the other day when I went for my appt. the dentist was delayed and I decided not to wait for her late return and left. Whatever. Yesterday I returned to her office at 4:30 and it was so quiet in the office that I knew she was not in. I sat down with my book to wait. She arrived in about 15 minutes and after catching up on things with her receptionist, she ushered me into the room. I had no idea of what was going to happen at this visit, other than she had told me that she would take the "impression" for the crown. When she started to get her drill ready to use, I knew it was not going to be good! She froze me in two places, and then began to drill away. Unfortunately, either the freezing hadn't taken good enough or she hadn't put enough in, and it did not feel good. She gave me some more freezing and drilled away. At this point, with the drill in my wide open mouth, I could not ask her what the process was going to be. When she took a break, I asked some questions. Was she going to remove the temporary filling that she had put in the other day to take the impression or what exactly was going on? She told me that she had to remove some of the filling to take the impression and then would put in a temporary crown and I would return for the permanent crown on next Tuesday. Now this is just me; but why didn't she do this the other day? Instead of putting in a temporary filling, why did she not do the impression and put in the temporary crown and skip one step. The only reason for this that I can think of is that she wanted to see what the x-ray showed. So, in my wimpiness I am thinking that I went through this extra step because she doesn't have an on site x-ray machine. Or, maybe not-- what do I know? After much grinding, digging, goop in my mouth, the standard dentists lecture on dental maintenance, care, etc. (in spanish), I was done. She kept laughing at me during the procedure and telling me to relax, sure, easy for her to say. Not her with the drill in her mouth. I'd be relaxed if it was in my hand not my mouth!! Anyway, after all this (now 1/2 my nose and one eye feel frozen), I am on my way out the door with instructions to return on Martes a las tres horas (Tuesday at 3 PM). Who cares, just let me out of here, I have had enough.

On a happier note, a couple of the roses have started blooming. With all the wind we have been having at night, I am not sure how they are surviving, much less blooming; but they are pretty. I have to say that it is tough to look out your window and see roses blooming in the middle of December. That is better any time than the view at the dentists office. Here are a couple of photos that I took this morning.

Old Fort At Ortiz

Old Fort At Ortiz

It's been a quiet few days. We haven't been doing anything exciting, so I have been lazy about blogging. I was supposed to have a dental appt. yesterday at 4:30 PM. I arrived about 15 minutes early and was told that the dentist was not back yet from a trip to Hermosillo. She would be about 1/2 an hour yet. No problem, I said (I had brought along a book to read). I had just settled into my book when the office phone rang. It was the dentist, she was going to be later than expected. I decided not to wait and made another appt. for today at 4:30. The receptionist apologised and told me that she would have phoned; but I have no phone. I told her it was no big deal. Stopped and got some groceries and went home.
It was windy again yesterday and really windy all night long. This weather is strange compared to last year and mustn't be typical as Ciro was complaining about it the other day. Ciro brought Alan up the other evening to show me his new "crown", I asked him if it hurt. He looked at me like I was crazy and said, "no". OK, so I am a wimp about dentists.
There is an old military fort at a small town called Ortiz near here. We went there last year; but at the time didn't know anything about it. This is what I have found out about it so far.
Another important event was the construction of the Military Quarter of Ortiz. During the campaign of Yaqui, already finished first stage of the Mexican revolution, general Francisco R. Manzo was in charge of the Headquarters of the federal forces with seat in Empalme, soon changed to the La Misa until August of 1927 and later to Ortiz in where between 1926 and 1927 a quarter was constructed, in charge was the architect and colonel Guillermo Padilla Franyutti. The construction made groups of soldiers who worked in two turns. They made adobe and bricks, carried lime and stone, dug a well and installed tanks for the water, etc. This facility was never attacked by Yaquis. General Manzo settled down his headquarters there along with two squadrons of airplanes of the Mexican Air Force to the control of greater Robert Fierro and Gustavo C. Leon and several thousands of men of the battalions 4º, 6º, 10º and 29º.

In 1929 a rebellion in the republic that was well-known like Escobarista or Renovadora, in that occurred participated many sonorenses heads against the form in which general Plutarco Elías Streets continued dominating the national policy although he was no longer the president of the republic. The rebellion quickly was dominated and their heads, among them the general Manzo and general the Faustus Topete, exiled themselves in the United States. The city of Hermosillo was bombed and the quarter of Ortiz was taken without shooting a single shot by colonel Marcelo Zavala, of the column of general Lazaro Cardenas. General Leopoldo Rabatté, head of 10º rebellious battalion also fled. Little by little the quarter was abandoned as the Yaquis were pacified and when the country entered a time of peace. For several decades the building deteriorated until arriving at the lamentable state in which it is at the moment.

I don't know what year this photo was taken.


Photos from 2005.