Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Chase had an out-of-the-ordinary ortho appointment Wednesday morning. He has a tooth that’s coming in at a slant rather than straight down. So the orthodontist wanted him to have laser surgery that would help change the direction of the tooth. The procedure was supposed to take an hour but it only took about 45 minutes. On the drive home, Chase talked all the way, giving Nanaw a play-by-play account of what the two technicians did. He said they needed two people because it was so complicated. He said he had to wear goggles and the technicians wore green eyeglasses. They had to do it twice because it didn’t work correctly the first time. They numbed the tooth area with a gel (no novocaine shot, thank heavens). He said it didn’t hurt too much. After the gel wore off, he was supposed to take Tylenol but he never did because he said he didn’t need it. He brought home some vitamin E capsules that he has to apply to the tooth area, one every night before bed. He said he wasn’t too nervous about it, and Nanaw told him he was very brave. He said he didn’t want to do any school, and when Nanaw asked if they could do the Python programming session, he said yes, they could do that. As usual, he’s way ahead of Nanaw and doing really well. He finished up Lesson 3 before Nanaw even started because she had to finish Lesson 2. So Nanaw has to work on Lesson 3 tonight and try to get caught up. Nanaw is very happy Chase is doing so well with Python. She hoped he would like it, and he seems to.