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Siletz Community CHAA-MAY WEE-YA’ - MEDICINE TALK Children in Siletz take to heart the recommendation of being physically active by participating in soccer and baseball games this spring and summer. Council Approves 2009 Health Benefits The Tribal Council has approved the following plan for using the 2009 Out-of Area Health Benefits. To qualify, Tribal members must be registered for health care with the Siletz Tribal Health Department and reside outside of the Tribe’s 11-county service area. These funds are intended for Tribal members who are not eligible for Contract Health Services. One of the following benefits is available per person per year: • $400 Vision All Tribal programs encourage youth to be active by playing games with the neighbor kids, participating in organized sports, or riding their bikes and skateboards (with their helmets on. of course). Clinic Health • • $1,400 Hearing •$ 1,200 Dental • $1,000 Medical Plus $500 maximum pharmacy through Pequot Rx Prior authorization by CHS is required and benefits must be used within 90 days. The claims must be into CHS by the end of the 90-day funding period. Any funds not used within 90 days or for claims not received will be returned to the pool for redistribution. An individual can only access benefits one time per year. When called for pre authorization, CHS will authorize for household members only. Authorization will not be granted for anyone not residing in your household. Voicemail messages do not hold funds, must be live contact. Call CHS starting at 8 a.m. on July 1 -800-628-5720 or 541-444-1236. Ifyouarenot already registered for health services, please call anytime to request an application. Authorization schedule is as follows: • July 1,2009 • Jan. 4, 2010 ‘Oct. 1,2009 -April 1,2010 Distribution of Nike N7 Shoes Comes to a Successful Conclusion It has been about a year since the beginning of the Nike N7 shoe project. We have fitted approximately 1,900 Tribal members throughout the United States with shoes. For some, it s unfortunate that Nike discontinued making specific sizes of shoes and we were unable to fill some application orders, but we hope those who did receive a pair of shoes have enjoyed them and are keeping up their physical activity levels. Each of the area offices has some shoes left that have not been picked up by their applicants and as we bring this project to an end, we have set a deadline for those shoes to be picked up. If you have not picked up your pair of Nike N7 shoes by July 31, 2009, they will be returned. If you cannot pick up your pair of shoes, please designate someone to pick them up for you. If you have any questions, please contact your area office contact listed below: Siletz: Wendi Schamp, 541-444-9670 Portland: Lori Johnson, 503-238-1512 Eugene: Adrienne Crookes, 541-484-4234 Salem: Norma Jimenez, 503-390-9494 Tooth Talk By Mary Ellen Vblansky, RDH, MS Sometimes I have not been able to speak a word clearly. Other times, I cannot find the word I know exists. Does any of this “ring a bell” for you? Remember that phrase - ring a bell? Whether you remember or not, I have a few other pithy phrases that utilize oral anatomy like teeth, cheeks, etc. They are brief if not necessarily meaningful phrases. Try them for yourself. Back to finding that perfect or not- so-perfect word. After struggling for that sought-after word, it comes out garbled. Maybe you find yourself speaking parts of two words as one word (i.e., Tooth Talk might come out as “too-alk”). When this happens, I am the only one who knows what I’m talking about. Someone listen ing might think I’m “tongue-tied.” Plainly, tongue-tied means, “You can’t seem to find words and are unable to speak, as if your tongue is tied in knots.”1 Ouch, not a pretty picture. Shakespeare, back in late-1500s, might be voicing a political stand on cen sorship with his use of tongue-tied: “Art made tongue-tied by authority.”2 Maybe Tongue-in-Cheek and Other Dental Phrases he was referring to critics or unapprecia tive audiences. He should be around today with tweeters. Tongue-tied as a phrase has a long history. Mark Twain used it in his lifetime (1835-1910) to stress the importance of being a good listener: “A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversations.”3 It seems he wanted to be heard and remembered for what he had to say. Wouldn’t we all “give our eyeteeth” for such a good listener or friend? Use of eyeteeth as a measure of value goes back to Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale, published in 1930. If Maugham’s work has to do with teeth, maybe I should read it. Before Maugham’s reference to eyeteeth as value, eyeteeth were used as a measure of acquired wisdom. This reference was based on the idea that, “A permanent set of (canines) is acquired when a child is passing into young adult hood. It is usually said in the negative, as in, ‘He hasn’t cut his eyeteeth yet.’”4 So we can cut our eyeteeth and not yet “cut our eyeteeth.” Or we can cut our eyeteeth more than once. Do you need kicking the tires). An old horse’s gums to cut your eyeteeth on regular dental will have recessed so much that roots of care? Again? the teeth are visible, thus making the teeth You also can “draw one’s eyeteeth” appear longer - hence ‘long in the tooth’ or “have one’s eyeteeth.” Chew this over. to mean ‘old’ ... or ‘past one’s prime.’”6 One phrase means to “take (draw) the So with “tongue-in-cheek” 1 bring conceit out of one” and the other suggests this oral trip through history to a close. I one is “to be wide awake.” hope you enjoyed. As far as “tongue-in- How did canines become a unit of cheek" goes, the Oxford English Diction value? Try swallowing this. “A carnivorous ary defines “tongue-in-cheek” as “ironic, animal to lose its eyeteeth would be a di slyly humorous; not meant to be taken saster. You could say, for non-human mam seriously.”7 mals at least, these meat-ripping teeth are a Well, as far as dentistry is concerned, matter of life and death. So, applying this all is serious except when it is not... oops, metaphorically to humans, to give them my tongue must be tied around my eye away is a very great sacrifice indeed.”5 teeth so I cannot see what I am saying. It all might seem very “long in the tooth,” you know, phrases past their 1 http://wiki.answer.com/Q/WhatJs_the- Mean i ng_of_ ’ tongue_tied ’ prime. If you’re a horse or its prospective 2 http://thinkexit.com/quotes/with/keyword/ owner, you won’t agree. And I suspect tongue_tied/ horse traders were akin to our onetime 3 http://thinkexit.com/quotes/with/keyword/ used car dealers, today’s more reputable tongue_tied/ previously owned vehicle dealers. 4 www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index . pperl?date=20010412 “As horses age, their gums recess 5 www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index . (sound humanly familiar?), which is pperl?date=!9961217 the origin of the practice of examining 6 www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index . a horse’s teeth to determine its age (and pperl?date=19961217 therefore value, a sort of early version of 7 http://enwikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek July 2009 • Siletz News • 19
