The Amish Cook from Oasis Newsfeatures

I'm not in the mood right now to spend a bunch of money on my mouth.  On the other hand, though, I really need to get some dental work done.  I keep putting it off and it won't get any less expensive or less painful if I keep doing so, in fact, it'll be worse for both the pocketbook and pain if I keep doing it.  So today Rachel and I ventured a couple hours away to the Ohio State University student-run dental clinic.  If you are anywhere near Columbus, Ohio, I highly recommend the dental school as an affordable option for oral care.   Because it is a teaching hospital, rates are much lower than for a private practice dentist.  Each patient is simply part of the curriculum for the students.  And, no fear, it's not like a bunch of college kids are poking around in your mouth.  These are upper-level students being supervised by medical faculty.  Anyway, anything Amish was about as far from my mind as possible as I headed into the clinic.  That was until the first person I saw upon entering was an Old Order Amish man.  He was standing near a snack cart, jovially talking to someone non-Amish and sipping on some sort of chocolate drink.  Now, keep in mind OSU is a sprawling, sprawling campus with a gajillion people, so the corridors are busy, interconnecting, etc, just rivers of people.....so there are little concession stands and snack carts everywhere.  I didn't see anyone else Amish with the man and I didn't see him again during my two hour stay there.  It was interesting to see him in the dental school clinic because, typically, dental care is just seen as a much lower priority item for the Amish (exceptions to everything, I know....but this is true as a general rule).  I'm even aware of some "back alley Amish dentists" who do low-cost extractions, etc.....if a tooth is giving an Amish person a problem, they often will just pull it.  Ouch!!! So, anyway, I don't have much more to say about it than that....I just think it's interesting how so many times when I think I am about as faraway as anyone Amish as I could be, my assumption is proven wrong.....SIGH, now I go back in a couple of weeks for some more dental work