12 posts tagged “dentist”
Went to fall asleep at about 1:30 and was gonna have to wake up at 7:30, knew it'd be tough and a mistake. When I was only 1/2 asleep by 2:30 or so but dead tired and Dutchie came in crying for attention walking around on me in circles, I knew I was in trouble (she walks around in circles on you to get comfy before laying down on you for as long as 15 minutes). As it closed in on 4 I was like why bother must stay up now, and next thing I know... Poor Brian is trying to wake me up 3 1/2 hours later. I was sweating, dizzy, more than half asleep and couldn't wake up, couldn't see straight and he gave up -- but being the sweet man he is, he re-set his alarm for 11 and told me he'd wake me so I call to check in, if they could still see me today he'd take me in, if not make an early morning appointment during the week (which is a big deal as I think I've said before he's gonna be very busy soon). So I just woke up and called. Turns out they're very busy today anyway. She thought they could sneak me in if it's an emergency but that didn't sound very promising and while a small chip on tooth surface is annoying, tooth doesn't seem loose, I'm not in pain, just annoyed, and it's been going on a week without serious probs, etc so I'd rather take the early morning appointment route. They didn't have anything left this week at all so next Saturday at 9 it is. Next time, I won't sleep *yawn*
So even though we can't afford to get my fillings done, one of my teeth that has an old filling decided to start acting up. The fillings I'm overdue to get are in the back and aren't bugging me so we're just hoping they don't get worse before we can afford to schedule them since 3 fillings is something like $900. Well this old filling that's making me INSANE is on tooth one over from the front. I've semi been noticing it for about a week but the tooth seems fine so figured I was going insane -- even had Brian look at it and he didn't see anything wrong. It feels like there is a chip on the surface of the front of the tooth but now I can sometimes feel it and sometimes not which make me wonder if it's really just the filling is loose or... who knows. Either way, Brian's gonna be busy the next few weeks so we're gonna chance a walk in first thing when my dentist opens in the AM because while we don't have a ton of money for the fillings I should get, he will find money for emergency treatment and a front tooth suddenly making me insane = he's worried about me hurting = emergency. I'm at the point where if someone handed me enough money to pull them all and replace I would. If even my dentist says they're gonna decay early. And I take care of them but combination of having been on so many meds + genetics + a history of teeth grinding has them so doomed well grrr who needs them. But it'd cost a fortune to do that and yet they're all trying to go bad on me anyway. Sadly visibly except for the missing one that shattered without a cavity or warning, they look fine. No visible rotting etc except the three that have cavities they're straight, normal colour, etc. Just weak, crack easy, blah blah grr grr. I hope it's just an easy filling needs a touch up or something, but with my luck... we'll see. Even my dentist is torn -- we can save, they're ok... but they're doomed to go bad faster than they should. Teeth are so overrated though necessary.
My teeth & swollen face:
First they asked if my mouth hurt, I said no, they asked me to open wide so I did and they were satisfied as all they found as what we already knew -- I have a filling on that side we have scheduled (dental work is flipping expensive, can't do it all at once - a filling costs only 1/2 of what a cap does... wtf? little drop of white stuff basically melted onto your tooth should cost a lot less than basically a full tooth cover), but then asked me what happened to my face. I looked at them funny and said I had some sinus problems lately, but they're pretty normal for me. They basically said ahh that would explain it then and explained they were worried as my cheek area looked swollen so they thought it could be tooth probs but they didn't see anything. I hadn't even realized it had my cheek swollen, just knew I felt sinus pressure and headache. There is about 50% less pressure feeling when I touch my cheek today vs yesterday so I think it's fading fast.
I got my perm cap, hopefully it really is perm (well you know, doesn't break or fall apart in some disaster real fast like the first temp anyway) Supposedly these caps are designed to hold up and can take a beating for awhile, we'll see. I did also get a mouth guard for when I sleep, I only have little thread snipping scissors, so need to get scissors tomorrow before I can fit it right. I can't kill a perm cap with one night of teeth grinding without a guard, I hope.
Gas Prices:
$4 a gallon predicted eh? It's here. Well... sort of. $3.99 9/10 a gallon in the heart of Santa Monica. Keep in mind I'm certain it's not that high in our part of LA (even though I live so close to Santa Monica it's airport is two lights from my house). But the heart of downtown Santa Monica is a different story. It's lots of shopping. It's tourists. It's near the beach. I hear sometimes it's celebs. It's street performers. It's traffic so bad you could run out of gas trying to get through town. So they can get away with charging you $4 $3.99 9/10 before everyone else because there's not a lot of gas stations and probably lots of demand. And really why the 9/10th of a cent. Just as bad as everything costing something.99 and worse than that houses. We drive by these new condos a lot. The banner says $699,999 and $799,999... why? Why not 700k and 800k? Who do they think they're fooling? Add the price of say a soda and it's a 700k or 800k house. Do you think I'm dumb enough to be like ohh a condo in the 600k range because you dropped $1 off?
4 Minutes:
We've only got 4 minutes to save the world... That line, only that line from that Madonna song is stuck in my head. Probably because it's on some commercial, dunno what for, never seen it just hear it on tv and never look up. But it makes me ask dumb questions like how do you know you have 4 minutes to do it? Even the heroes in comic books take a good 3-4 issues to save the world. TV shows give the heroes a good half hour or hour. Movies give them 2 hours! Why do you only get 4 minutes? Are you really going to get a 4 minute warning? And if so why are you singing about it for around 4 minutes, guess you didn't care about saving the world then if you had 4 minutes and used that time to sing about it eh? Ahh so many questions!
This is the latest I've been up in awhile, sleepy... Nervous after that first time I slept with temp cap on though, heh. I know perm cap should work out better just... that first experience with temp cap made me nervous.
Before the w00t... well a partial w00t first I suppose. I went to dentist this morning. They gave me a new temp dental crown. I asked them what to do if this one breaks or falls off as my perm isn't in until a week from tomorrow. They said they didn't think this one will. Bets? :P It does seem like they shaved this one down a little so it doesn't easily touch the tooth below it, hopefully that means in sleep hard to grind it / loosen it / break it. We'll see. They said if it breaks / falls off come back, when I said that has to be around Brian's work schedule as I don't drive they did say try to get it on myself but still try to get in, but still we don't think this one will have that prob, etc. Brian noticed it does look different and it does feel flatter and as I said, doesn't easily touch other tooth, they angled it a little so only a tiny piece touches so we'll see if that helps. Still.. my hopes aren't high, but we'll see :P I kept the broken one and now have denture paste to seal it back into place just in case. And I slept some last night, Brian wondered if I fell asleep too soon, not letting cement dry enough last time.
Now the real w00t! My sister was stuck on $175 on her MS walk pledges forever with a $500 goal. I suspect she was bummed. She lowered her goal to $300 then I think raised it to $400. At the last minute mom's quilt art group came through and she's at $485. Brian's donating today so she'll be over her original $500 goal. Keegan's original goal was $500, he reached it, raised his to $700 and is now at $700. This was Karina's comment on my MySpace today:
"I am $15 away from achieving VIP status! I hope I make it!!! I will truly be able to sport the VIP title, i wont just be a legend in my own mind!!! Keegan has a shot at a $150 target gift card... he would love that right by his bday!"
I really am proud of them both. This was Keegan's idea. A 6 year old (he'll be 7 next week) who decided a charity walk was a good idea and who got his mom excited. Karina's excited about it. I really am proud of them both. How many kids Keegan's age say let's go do this charity event? And for those of you who have been around long enough to know Karina's recent past, be honest, a few years ago who would have thought she'd be doing this well?
You can still donate to Keegan or donate to Karina if you'd like. Mom says they can accept until the 21st. In here LJ post here she's given another option. If you've seen her sunfaces / art, she'll be trying to (time willing) post some art in her LJ next week. Sales will be paid through Paypal so she can use that money to donate all money earned to their final total.
Exhaustion aliens coming around, bad...
Can barely keep eyes open and slept 6-7 hours today. WTF.
Gotta go to dentist quick in am before Brian goes to work for new temp cap, they finally called back and said they know Brian is my transportation so if I come in before he goes to work they'd be sure to get me right in as it doesn't take long. Wonder if this one will last more than a day :P
Might nap for hmm 6-7 more hours or maybe just stay this tired yet awake knowing how this works. I hate exhaustion alien. Either way, think I'll curl up on the couch and be lazy now and not move as that takes energy.
Ok as much as I'd love to paint my own messenger bag for my art supplies or build my own bag, the truth is I can't really justify spending that much on a bag now. I still need fillings we can't do because we can't afford them. So buying Brian's bday present or a book or two is one thing... but spending that kind of money on my biggest shopping addiction would be BAD, heh. So would anyone use a 20% off discount at Timbuk2.com? First person who really wants it and contacts me can have it, so please be serious, would hate to see it go to waste (it's valid until May 30th).
In other news, my dentist didn't return my call today (I thought they were closed Monday, it's Tuesday they're closed), so I'm gonna assume my temp cap the way iit is = ok. I made the mistake of passing out instead of falling asleep though so it fell out again (didn't break any further this time at least). I won't be doing that again, would hate to lose it.
Re-watched the last Smallville as I didn't really pay attention to it very well when it was on. Was better when I really paid attention the second time around.
There's still a couple of days left to vote in the banner contest (voting goes through the 11th). I'm done spamming but if you still wanted to vote on any of me and mom's banners my list of them is here.
My mom had quite the adventure getting stuck in her van with a flat this weekend on a back road in Oregon City (I think, too lazy to look it up). Eeek. Her cell wasn't getting reception so she had to sleep there til someone came along the next day. Tonight I asked her if I need to get her a GPS chip implanted into her :P
Keegan is still getting MS walk pledges, my sister is stuck at $175... She need donations. Mom said she must secretly be in counseling as she walked up and hugged her today and asked how she could help her more or something... Big changed for those of you who know her history. I'm proud of her, she's come a long way in the last few years.
That is all.
Tooth shaved down. Mold made for perm crown. Temp one put on. Came home, watched some tv, got too tired as I never slept last night / this morning, took a nap, woke up with temp cap on pillow and a piece cracked off. Dentist office not open again until Tuesday so I left a message and looked it up online. Since I'm not in pain etc everything online just says try to put it back on if possible and make an appointment to have it re-cemented or a new one made. Apparently it's common enough with the way temp ones are made that it's on every dentist's FAQ page, but I guess I didn't expect to be needing to contact the dentist until the appointment two weeks from now :P
This probably means going back next Saturday for another temp unless they say it's ok to go without it until the perm one gets put in on the 19th. I did manage to put it back in with some temp dental filling stuff they sell in drug stores (as recommended online on dentists sites) even with the back piece chipped off.
Brian woke me up at 11 to have me call the dentist to reschedule for two Saturdays from this weekend. It seems to be a law that on holiday weekends (or breaks of any sort) someone at work must infect him with a nasty cold. He was of course nice enough to share. So we were both up last up coughing thanks to a dry sore throat from hell. He thought it would be short enough lived we'd both be feeling well enough to go today, he woke up feeling differently.
Friday while out getting cold meds, some guy yelled across the parking lot "I like your hair" I turned around as it was a small parking lot so we were pretty sure he meant me, he did. He then added something about pumpkin or pumpkins we couldn't hear as clearly, so Brian announced "Ok, let's go Pumpkin". No pics yet, I feel too crappy.
Brian came out and hung up the phone, then watched a SNL skit with me. If you saw the SNL that Tina Fey hosted, it was the skit about an old man selling dvds his wife had had his grandsons edit to explain the movies to him. There's a part where they say something like no grandpa don't go to answer the phone, it's in the movie. The phone sounds like ours. Brian had gone to answer ours. When he realized it he announces "I just got pwned by SNL". He's been walking around in shock ever since. HAHAHA. He really doesn't find SNL funny so he seemed rather shamed that they got him :P
Bush keeps saying the economy is just fine... WTF? Clearly he doesn't shop, etc. Gas prices = stupid, we all knew that. I buy soy milk which I must say is pretty much always on sale one brand or the other 2 half gallon cartons for $6 and has been that way every week for a year now. So while we notice our grocery bill going up up up I didn't notice just how bad things have gotten until I bought something I buy only a few times a year:
Had the root canal. Took longer than they thought as it was complicated because it was a longer root than they thought or something. They said usually it's the back teeth that take longer as they have more roots, but sometimes these front teeth do have longer ones, as mine did. So they couldn't do the mold today. Two more appointments. One to shave the tooth down / get the mold. Then two weeks after that to put the permanent cap on.
I did figure out something odd about me and dentists though. Drills and all of that doesn't bother me. The things that bother me are the bigger non tools that don't really do anything that important. You know the bigger plastic tubes types of tools like suction tubes, those I hate. The drills make noise, drill into your teeth, etc you're supposed to hate those, but they're small and they numb me enough I don't care about those. But big tubes in my mouth I'm not a fan of. When she was just doing the root canal I was fine. But when it got the filling part of it which is almost like a filling, with the water tubes, suction, etc, all of the tubes in my mouth, I hated it. I'm weird.
Then again, I hate tubes being in my mouth so badly, that when I had my lung biopsy and had a choice between the camera + whatever going down my nose or in my mouth I chose nose. Which in the end was far more painful than the scope I had done in my mouth in the past for my gall bladder. And while I never want another scope done again, if I had to choose, I would still chose nose because it hurts more in the end but there's no gagging on a tube in your mouth :P Hmm actually I wonder if it hurt more because it was in my nose or because the one in my mouth was just a scope but the one in my nose was a biopsy? So that means they had to bring up a piece of lung through my nose then? I never thought of that before now. Ewwwwwww.
Anyway 7 days of antibiotics and 5 days of prescription strength ibruprophen which is a bonus, not much pain so far, but hey been having killer not totally worthy of migraine med headaches for days now and that's what I used to take for that! In fact when I see neuro in July might ask for that again if I keep getting these not full on migraines but bad headaches more often.
Brian asked me to reschedule my root canal for next Saturday, so I did. He was worried that me coughing up phlegm this morning could be bad news, he was apparently worried I'd cough at a bad time and bite the dentist's finger off, heh... I forgot to ask him why he wasn't worried about what could happen to ME if I coughed at a bad time with a DRILL in my mouth. He was probably worried the dentist would bill him if injured and I wouldn't :P
Managed to get out of robe and into clothes long enough to go get coffee
Came straight home and have been laying around in robe ever since with kitties trying to "take care of me" as I lay curled up crampy, dizzy, and overall blech. Those of you who have kitties probably know, they mean well but their idea of helping or taking care of you is not always so helpful. As Brian put it "I know what it's like to be stalked by the paparazzi, I have cats"
On a positive note it's sprinkling, not raining (we've already gotten something like 3 times the rain we got all of last year). Sprinkling is nice. Pouring rain is not.
So dizzy I can't even follow these political shows! It's not a dizzy like the room is spinning dizzy, it's more erm... ugh wish I would explain, but words fail me so back to being curled up and doing nothing I go.
