I'm still trying to adjust my worldview to accommodate the notion of hedgehogs as pets - recognised pets, which the reaction of all the Americans on my f-list confirms that they are. Over there. Here, we only really know them as wild animals! This one is definitely of the domesticated variety, and hopefully hasn't been too badly affected my mishandling during his early life. I don't think my parents had too much choice about taking him in, really. They had already promised Small a new pet to replace her hamster, although the plan was that they would get something after the move. Still, we take what life throws at us.

Soon you will habe Baby Bowtrunckle to distract you from thoughts of pets...*G*

I had one wisdom tooth out already, under local anaesthetic at my dentist's surgery. I don't remember it being too bad, although I could just be repressing. But since then I've had that horrible infection in my jaw which led to hospitalisation and a very traumatic tooth extraction, and it has left me very leery of any kind of repeat performance. And this other wisdom tooth will be harder to get out than the first, so yeah, I'm comfortable with my decision to be referred and suffer the waiting list!