July 8 – It was a long and tiring day. Once I got to the entrance station I started getting a real toothache. I’ve had some twinges for a week or so but was hoping it would stall off til we got home to my regular dentist. I called my dentist but he’s out camping in the woods someplace. Since he’s from Georgia I thought he might have a dentist friend here to refer me to. One of the rangers was going to the dentist today and recommended his dentist, so I called and they are going to let me know if they have a cancellation for Monday or Tuesday. They do accept our insurance and are just 2 islands over where the Wal-Mart is, so it’s pretty convenient, that is, if they can get me in. They are the #2 rated dental office in Savannah, so they must be pretty good. So I used some ibuprophen and aspirin to get through the day.
Ranger Patty received word that she finally got approval for her trip to England for a seminar that she applied for and was chosen but the Park Service was dragging its feet getting her travel arrangements and paperwork approved. She leaves tomorrow and actually most of the employees, as well as us volunteers, are joyful that she will be gone for 10 days. She has to be one of the moodiest people ever and it changes in minutes. No one can figure what triggers her but she gets nasty. I think she’s bi-polar.
Tonight was fish night. Bill was not excited but he likes tilapia about the best of any fish so I did lemon pepper panko on it and baked it and it was nice and flaky. I made some risotto with some leftover broccoli in it and asiago cheese. Yum! Then a nice salad. By then my tooth was hurting although I didn’t chew on that side at all. I didn’t feel all that good and was super tired so totally unlike me, I went to bed at 9:30.
July 9- Last workday of the week! I love this day. I slept pretty good and didn’t have any trouble with the tooth during the night. Even had my fruit and ham-cheese toast with no trouble but then the tooth woke up by the time I got to the fort. I put 2 aspirin on it and that seems to tame it for a while. We had a severe shortage of staff today. Two are normally off on Saturday, 1 is on vacation, 1 asked for the day off, 1 called in sick and Patty is now off for her trip, so we had to rob Peter to pay Paul to get lunches covered for the booth and the VC today.
The dentist office was able to get me an apt for Monday until she found out the problem is a molar and they don’t do root canals on molars there so they are going to see about getting me into an endodontist on Monday. Drats!
I had to close the booth today. My money count was right so I just put it all in the bag and headed for the VC to finish the paperwork as it was making some loud thundering north of us and I didn’t want to get caught in the rain in the golf cart. We had a slight discrepancy in the Senior passes sold. I sold 4 but apparently 2 of them did not pick them up in the VC. I described one family as I had told them we had a wheelchair available if they needed it and they borrowed it but didn’t pick up the pass. So I guess they will show me over for the day. I forgot to take the tape out of the register so Bill drove me out in the truck to get it and once I took it in we were headed home. It was late for us, after 6. Bill took Xena out and I changed clothes and we went to Tybee for dinner at the Sundae Café. It’s been written up and was highly recommended. It’s a small place in a strip plaza but very nice with white tablecloths and the waiters all in black. They were booked with reservations but we could order dinner at the bar, which ended up being the case for several other couples. Rather nuvo cuisine.
The prices would have been fine except my crab cakes were overcooked. You should not have to cut a crab cake with a knife. They did some with a nice tomato preserve relish and the low country risotto was excellent as were my mixed veggies. The bread with herbed olive oil was really tasty. The portions were perfect so there were no leftovers to take home. My tooth acted up a bit when I started eating the hot food but I quickly became more careful and ate really slow.
When we left it was raining a bit and we were tired and ready to get home.
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