Geeeeeeeeees - I'm going back and forth between crying and laughing at myself.
$1,100 out of my empty pocket in the last 8 days for 1 tooth. Well, actually $1,000 for one tooth, $100 for another. More on that detail below.
I had another dentist appointment this morning to finish the build up for the crown on my root canal tooth. I wasn't sure what this would entail, but it was supposed to be a "short 1 hour" appointment. Um, not-so-much. It started with - you guessed it - more shots! I am glad they numbed it once I knew the kind of work they would be doing there, but still, ugh. Once they took the temporary crown out, the dentist said the filling on the tooth next to it did not look great. She said she'd go ahead and fix it, "on the house" while she was there and I was already numb. Great. Another fix on a tooth that had already had a filling. WTH is going on? Anyway, they fix that then start working on the tooth for the crown. I could tell where it wasn't numb and parts of that started to hurt. Then they left me for 30 minutes or so biting down on gauze on that area and finally I couldn't stand it and thankfully someone finally came in and asked how I was. Then she got the dentist who proceeded to jab me God knows how many more times to numb my mouth more. Usually they put topical lidocaine on first, but not this time. She just went to town and it was far from pleasant - especially in the roof of my mouth. Fortunately once it was numb I could not feel it again.
I don't know enough to know why, but the rest of the process of building/fitting a new temporary crown and prepping for the new crown was painful. Very painful. Even more painful was when I was charged for the "on the house" filling on my way out. Awesome. The dentist was no where around and busy so I couldn't talk to her about it. I sat in my car and cried. I was starving because I hadn't eaten yet and also hadn't really had any water. I tried to drink when I was leaving the dentist, but water just fell down my face. Awesome.
My mouth hurt so bad I knew I wasn't going to spend the rest of the day at work. I stopped in to turn in a PTO form and came home. I found the strongest painkiller I had, ate ice cream for breakfast/lunch, and got in bed. To add insult to injury, my elbow almost hurt too bad to scoop my ice cream after I smashed it Saturday when I fell off my mountain bike.
Seriously, I wouldn't mind a small break. Oh yeah, on top of all of this, I was sick for three solid weeks starting right before Thanksgiving and seem to be sick again. I am finally going to go to the dr on Friday, my vacation day. I've already used 2 sick days for this stupid teeth stuff - I'm not made of money or time and this is costing a lot of both. When I go to the dr. on Friday I will also get a lot of my regular prescriptions refilled -more $$. Usually I have flex spending for that, but it has been wiped out until June 1.
Ugh. Blah. On a positive note, my lifelong Beaumont neighbor, Mr. Chenault, received a life-saving lung transplant last night here at Methodist Hospital. Prayers continue to be needed during his recovery, especially in these first days, but I know getting the transplant and having it be successful are a HUGE relief to his family.
Oh, and exercise? What's that? I had a great long run on Saturday followed by an interesting mountain bike adventure, but have done nothing since. I can't wait to feel how great pounding will feel on my mouth.
$1,100 out of my empty pocket in the last 8 days for 1 tooth. Well, actually $1,000 for one tooth, $100 for another. More on that detail below.
I had another dentist appointment this morning to finish the build up for the crown on my root canal tooth. I wasn't sure what this would entail, but it was supposed to be a "short 1 hour" appointment. Um, not-so-much. It started with - you guessed it - more shots! I am glad they numbed it once I knew the kind of work they would be doing there, but still, ugh. Once they took the temporary crown out, the dentist said the filling on the tooth next to it did not look great. She said she'd go ahead and fix it, "on the house" while she was there and I was already numb. Great. Another fix on a tooth that had already had a filling. WTH is going on? Anyway, they fix that then start working on the tooth for the crown. I could tell where it wasn't numb and parts of that started to hurt. Then they left me for 30 minutes or so biting down on gauze on that area and finally I couldn't stand it and thankfully someone finally came in and asked how I was. Then she got the dentist who proceeded to jab me God knows how many more times to numb my mouth more. Usually they put topical lidocaine on first, but not this time. She just went to town and it was far from pleasant - especially in the roof of my mouth. Fortunately once it was numb I could not feel it again.
I don't know enough to know why, but the rest of the process of building/fitting a new temporary crown and prepping for the new crown was painful. Very painful. Even more painful was when I was charged for the "on the house" filling on my way out. Awesome. The dentist was no where around and busy so I couldn't talk to her about it. I sat in my car and cried. I was starving because I hadn't eaten yet and also hadn't really had any water. I tried to drink when I was leaving the dentist, but water just fell down my face. Awesome.
My mouth hurt so bad I knew I wasn't going to spend the rest of the day at work. I stopped in to turn in a PTO form and came home. I found the strongest painkiller I had, ate ice cream for breakfast/lunch, and got in bed. To add insult to injury, my elbow almost hurt too bad to scoop my ice cream after I smashed it Saturday when I fell off my mountain bike.
Seriously, I wouldn't mind a small break. Oh yeah, on top of all of this, I was sick for three solid weeks starting right before Thanksgiving and seem to be sick again. I am finally going to go to the dr on Friday, my vacation day. I've already used 2 sick days for this stupid teeth stuff - I'm not made of money or time and this is costing a lot of both. When I go to the dr. on Friday I will also get a lot of my regular prescriptions refilled -more $$. Usually I have flex spending for that, but it has been wiped out until June 1.
Ugh. Blah. On a positive note, my lifelong Beaumont neighbor, Mr. Chenault, received a life-saving lung transplant last night here at Methodist Hospital. Prayers continue to be needed during his recovery, especially in these first days, but I know getting the transplant and having it be successful are a HUGE relief to his family.
Oh, and exercise? What's that? I had a great long run on Saturday followed by an interesting mountain bike adventure, but have done nothing since. I can't wait to feel how great pounding will feel on my mouth.
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