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civ_eng_girl wrote:

i'm sorry mookie.... submission by toothache is not fun.

*hugs, hugs, hugs* and pain relieving vibes your way...........

hey ceg, thanks so much. sorry to complain in the thread here, but i was really going crazy last night. my ear is ringing on one side now...

ReleasH wrote:

Digression from the thread, but ...

Have you gone to the doctor yet, Mookie?

If not, then I hope so ... I can't afford the plane to Halifax, nor am I at all qualified to extract teeth.

Feel better soon dude!!

thanks for the offer, releash. i'll take anyone with a pair of needle nose plyers at this point. i went ot the doctor when it initially broke two years ago and there's nothing they could do (in terms of social assistance paying for the repair...as i have no dental insurance) on the train ride home from our weekend in montreal it actually cracked more, and pretty much in half. so i went to the doctor then and eventually i was able to get the red tape through the doctor and social assistance to get it extracted so i wouldn't have to pay.

that meant a referral to oral surgery on june 9th for a consult! :eek: only a consult! so i have called them every couple of days trying to get them to move my date up, but the woman handling my booking only felt it was necessary to call me back once and send me a letter with the dates and times of my consult highlighted in pink. everyone i've spoken to on the phone has been nice and said every time..."it sounds bad. i'm sure she'll move your date up for you." , but no luck.

anyway, i'm sour. if it was a broken bone, i could get it looked at right away, but because it's a tooth i have to suffer with it broken for two years until it can be declared an emergency...i wish i did have a friend who was a dentist! then again, i probably would have strangled that friend for being in dentistry by this point!

the MMA shows are the only thing getting me through. watching them over and over reminds me that i'm probably not in as much pain...:D

some interesting follow up after the elite xc show on the weekend. personally, i didn't think there was any controversy about the young vs. carano stoppage, but i guess many people thought it should have continued. i agreed that the smith stoppage was ridiculous the way it was handled with the five minutes to recover confusion...it sounds like his vision took some time to come back, but he still should have had the five minutes...anyway, moot point i guess, as it sounds like he wouldn't have been able to continue.


5 Oz. Exclusive: Dr. Sherry Wulkan comments on Kaitlin Young and Scott Smith stoppages
June 02, 2008
by Sam Caplan

After reading our interview with New Jersey Athletic Control Board legal counsel Nick Lembo, Dr. Sherry Wulkan contacted the NJACB with additional comments via e-mail. The NJACB forwarded that e-mail to us with permission to publish it.

I am making that e-mail available here, but I wanted to add that 5 Oz. of Pain contacted both Kaitlin Young and Scott Smith to get their sides of the story. Young declined to comment on the record at this time while Smith was unavailable for comment.

Here is Wulkan’s e-mail:

“When we saw Kaitlin in the cage, we were concerned about an orbital fracture. Both she and her corner were grateful that the fight was stopped and actually thanked us for stopping the fight. When she first returned to the dressing room, she said she wasn’t sure why the fight was stopped, but after looking in the mirror, she was glad we did. That is almost a quote verbatim. She said she was overwhelmed and that Carano definitely got the better of her on this occasion. I don’t read the blogs [Editor’s Note: Dr. Wulkan is referring to an alleged post by Kaitlin Young on FighterGirls.com, however, the post has yet to be verified as actually being authored by Young herself], but perhaps she was not well reviewed and this prompted the response you forwarded.

“We did not stop the fight because it looked ugly or because she was a woman, but because she had taken some major abuse, and because we were afraid she had a fracture. The risks of orbital fractures are well known to ringside physicians.

“Her response seems more like a vendetta for not being invited to the interviews . It’s a shame, because she presented herself very professionally both before and after the fight on fight night.

“As a follow up, Drago [editor’s note: Pete Sell] told me that Smith said he still was seeing double and triple 15-20 minutes after returning to the locker room. His corner was grateful we made the call we did. I want to know who told the press we didn’t pick up the foot injury at the time it happened. That’s just not precise reporting. I’m glad you cleared that up. I think it’s amazing that Smith himself, although initially disappointed, currently has no problem with the decision; he knows we’re professional and we have both their short term and long term interests at heart. At no time did we hear a complaint from Smith’s corner, so why are the blogs so insistent that an injustice was served? Besides, the rematch will prove to be a war, especially with two healthy fighters.”

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