The other side to travel (or two countries, three cities and half a tooth)

It had been a lovely day...

Then somehow when brushing his teeth, Wimitja snapped his tooth in half by banging against his other teeth... 

Much distress followed, with breath drawn for a moment to take the following photo of himself, before returning to distress...

Not a great shot but no doubt you get the picture - adult tooth, lower section - only half.

The tooth had snapped before during a game of football last year and thanks to a quick thinking Isaac, the other half was found amongst the grass and we whizzed off to get it glued on again.

Not so easy this time...

For a start Wimitja swallowed the other half! 

After he went to sleep we spent the next while sorting details and plans. 

Insurance, Bangkok, dentists. Great thanks to Amber and Kyra for great advice.

We arose planning for Todd and Wimitja to fly to Thailand but realised we had spent the previous day getting new visas and our passports were in the police office not available till 3.

The nerve was exposed so time was of the essence. Flight at 11.45.

The ever amazing Latda managed to retrieve our passports but by then the flights to Bangkok had booked out till late.

So then we tried to get to Vientiane and we're trying to find a dentist there, but the person who could recommend the dentist could not get the number till later and we didn't want to fly there without confirming the dentist.

So we needed to do something quicker before the tooth nerve died.

So next option quickly worked on was to go to the children's hospital. Todd and Latda weren't quite in sync and Latda called a tuk tuk and Todd and Wimitja rushed out to get in but got in the wrong one and left without the note in Laos and directions but made it just fine.

The nerve was still alive and half an hour later it was all done for the cost of $20 US.

Apparently the dentist was wonderful and all is well. Very thorough and professional. We have checked in with our dentist back home and they were very happy with it all. 

We have an appointment when we return for them to inspect the Laos tooth cap but as they say, alls well that ends well.

Just so you know, it's not all pineapples and river boats...

Well, today wasn't anyway! 😁