To those of you who are scratching your heads at the title of today's blog, it means "Merry Christmas" in Ukrainian. Yes, today, January 6th was Christmas Eve, which was celebrated in the Hrabowych household with the traditional 12 course meatless supper. We've been building up to this moment since we got back from the Van Dusen cottage, with more shopping for gifts and foodstuff to fill up on.
The relentless celebrations have not been quite so relentless, since both Orest and I were taken out for a day each with various procedures. Orest finally decided to get his eyes done. And before you all start imagining that I was threatening him with divorce if he didn't take care of those crow's feet; he had the lasik procedure done which has corrected his eyesight. He's still complaining that it's only 95% corrected, but we're hoping for the rest of the 5% soon.
The following day, I went in to have 2 cavities filled and not having had any done for the last few years, it was more painful than I had remembered. The wierdest part was when Dr. Tomkins said she would put a plastic guard in my mouth for the filling of the second tooth, so to keep away my bacteria-filled saliva. Here I was imagining a hard plastic contraption of some sort, only to be presented with what amounted to a tarp covering half my mouth. It was the oddest sensation having little rubber bands around my teeth anchoring the thin plastic covering in place. At least the thing worked and I didn't get any bits falling into the back of my throat either, which was a welcome change from procedures done in the past.
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