Last straw.

I consider myself a very patient person. But there is only so much I can take. After leaving 3 messages at the Dental Surgery office at Hopkins and not hearing back from anyone, I wrote an e-mail to the patient relations office to make a formal complaint. I was trying to get them to help me with an insurance issue.

I was pleased that I did got a response from the patient relations office within 1 business day of my initial e-mail. I got a phone call back from the Dental Office today.

Lesson of the day: Sometimes it pays to complain.

Where is the snow??

I woke up this morning to no snow. Oh well, at least I got to stay at a nice hotel. After a great breakfast I drove to Hopkins. I met Dr Koch who said everything looked good inside my mouth. I showed him the small bump I had on the side of my jaw. I was not prepared for what he said next.


Pleomorphic Adenoma, also called benign mixed tumor. WHAT THE FRAK?


This was just a possibility as it could also be a cyst and with out a CAT Scan he would not know for sure. He did not want to do a scan due to the fact it was too soon since my last one. He wanted to see me back in August to see if it lump has grown.

Now that I am in a happy mood, (sarcasim) I left the doctors office and started to head back home. Of course now it starts snowing.


I got this from emedicine.medscape.com

Pleomorphic adenomas, commonly called a benign mixed tumor, are histologically composed of 2 subtypes of cells: epithelial and mesenchymal. The tumors are typically well demarcated from the surrounding tissue by a fibrous capsule, which varies both in thickness and completeness.4

Don't know the above means but I do not like it. I really wish they speak english on these medical sites. Someone should start a medial site for dummies.

Guess I will find out in six months.

Let it snow

If it is possible to be anti-snow right now, place me in that category. Here in New Jersey over the last few months it has snowed. ALOT. We usually don't get too much where I live but this winter has been unusual. I don't like driving in weather like that. Lucky me it was suppose to snow the day I headed down to Hopkins. So, I decided to book a room at my favorite hotel the night before at The Marriott Waterfront.

A wonderful doctor

I ran across this article I found in Hopkins Medicine Magazine. In the article, it describes the journey of three doctors and the path they took to work at Hopkins. Dr. Kofi Boahene is listed as one of them. He is the doctor that did the reconstruction on my mandible at Hopkins. I encourage everyone to check out the link above. Below is a little excerpt from the article. If anyone is looking for a great doctor for reconstruction, I can not recommend him highly enough. Also here is a YouTube link with a video interview with Dr Boahene.

Yet soon after arriving in Krasnodar and settling into his studies, the two school officials summoned him to the ambulance. Within an hour, a very confused Boahene found himself in a remote medical facility in a small Soviet town, serving as an unhappy pincushion for a dreary parade of nurses who began a daily ritual of blood drawings.

Despite his continuing bids for an explanation, no one seemed able to communicate in a language he could understand. The seemingly unbounded hours and days grew into an agonizing uncertainty. How long would he remain in this limbo? Was this the end of the road? With no end in sight after that first week, Boahene became increasingly uncooperative, eventually demanding to be sent back to Ghana.