I saw a patient today in surgery, a lady. Young. I saw her with Raj, our periodontist, and so I had a different set of eyes.
On the one hand, we could save some of her teeth (it's devastating); I don't know how long for, I don't know how well or how good they will look. On the other hand, I could take all her teeth out and replace them on the same day. Neither of these is ideal, but they're the only two routes the patient has.
Everything has a cost, doesn't it? Every decision we make, every turn we take, every road we travel down.
Like me and the knee, there are positives and negatives of doing that, and you have to weigh it up.
Sometimes, at the start of a project, a decision or a process, it's hard to see the downside (or even the upside). It's important, though, to try to look as hard as you can so that you understand when you're in the middle of something that you felt was unexpected, but maybe it wasn't quite unexpected; maybe it's just the price you're going to pay to get to the other side of the thing that you're doing.
Sometimes, it takes a while for the thing to pass through you; sometimes, it takes longer than you thought it would. That's the price, and that's the cost.
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Blog Post Number - 4210
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