Not your typical 4th of July Post

So our 4th of July this year did include the normal fireworks, parade, bar-b-q, and most importantly day off of work (for both me and Brad!) But this year also included an emergency trip to the dentist too. We were watching the community 4th of July parade with a group of friends. I was chatting away when Brad comes up to me and interrupts asking me to look at his teeth. When I do my mouth opens wide and I bring my hand up to cover it. Brad had a huge chunk of his front tooth missing. As I told him what it looked like we look to the ground to see if we can see a piece of the tooth, but after a second we know that is a hopeless effort. The parade is over at this time and some of our friends are coming over to see Brad's teeth. As he talks he tries to cover it with his upper lip, but this is just too obvious. When I tell him he looks like a hick, he responds with I can't see my patients at the hospital like this, we need to get it fixed today. So next comes phone calls to his dad the dentist and then to our friend in the ward who is in dental school. Some hope comes when our friend tells us to come over and he will look at it and maybe he has the stuff to fix it. So we rush over to his house, our hopes we crushed but then restored as he didn't have the right tools to fix it, but he told us what needed to be done and how it would only cost in the couple hundreds not the thousands and that we could call around because some dental clinics had emergency lines. So we proceeded home to make phone calls to any dentist we could find. Brad had remembered seeing a flier for such an emergency dental clinic that claimed it was open 24-7. So as I roamed the internet, we went through our trash to find the flier. His work payed off before mine, as I heard him scheduling an appointment for the afternoon. Yeah! We are now grateful to the dentist that had to work on Monday when everyone else was off. $150 later, Brad had a beautiful smile again.