Catching Colds In April

Put on nine pounds, catch a cold

Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
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Photo by Bermix Studio on Unsplash

Adrian wrote “Who Gets a Cold in April?”

I found the details of his misery so interesting, I was thinking and typing about my cold and fever almost before I finished reading about his.

Busy work week

The clinic has been crazy. Ordinary crazy, not like “Holy Saturday Crazy.” (Nobody celebrates Good Friday in India — not enough Christians where I live? So it is a grand “let’s go visit the dentist!” weekend.)

A female dentist at work on a senior citizen patient dressed in loose handspun clothes typical of the Indian subcontinent.
At my dental clinic. Author’s image.

Nasty new software that ate up time and delivered confusion

Then, we decided to introduce a new WiFi-dependent billing system that we hated, replaced it with WiFi-dependent software that we hated, and then threw out both for offline data entries on Google Forms within a week— and we charged ahead with our pen-and-paper bills.

Which is what we had in the beginning… plus a Google form we created months ago.

For reasons entirely unrelated to people’s teeth, we spent hours in the clinic and worked ourselves up into a tizzy.

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Tooth Truth Roopa Vikesh
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I don’t just create smiles, I inspire them! Dentist, mom—Jamshedpur, India.