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When they strap you down and drug you up and steal the last vestiges of your innate wisdom (namely, your teeth), there is only one thing in the word that will assuage the anguish.
Reed's Chocolate Ginger Ice Cream - available at natural food stores. It's like all the comfort of your grandmammy rolled up and shoved in a little frozen carton.
'Tis a beautiful thing.
Everyone give a shout-out to Hobbes who is also currently being deprived of his wisdom. Send him some ice cream.
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I know what you mean KQ. I had one out this morning at the oral surgeon, and only because someone was gracious enough to pay for me. They asked me why I'd had two out manually last summer and why he hadn't just put me under and taken them all out.
"Have you looked at what you charged?" I screamed. "Four hundred dollars to knock me out and cut out one tooth, a procedure that takes twenty minutes, and six hundred if you want to take out two? Do I look like I'm in the decent dental shape of someone who has either insurance or a trust fund?! Do you want to go take a look at my mom who hasn't been able to afford a trip to the dentist in twenty years?"
Actually, I didn't say that. I said. "Hmmm... I don't know."
"Well, that's not very fair to you," the nurse said, "to have to go through this twice."
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Yeah. I can't have them done while awake. Mine are all impacted, I have had bad reactions to two of the drugs they use to relax you for those procedures, and I have severe TMJD. Not gonna happen.
In the meantime, my wisdom teeth are aggrivating my TMJ, causing splitting headaches, jaw popping and pain, and me not being able to open my mouth even as far as I used to be able to. Also, they have ruined the alignment my mom paid so much for those braces for, and they just plain hurt where they're crooked under the skin.
My mom suggested the dental school here, but there's a two year waiting list, and we're planning on moving.
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Of course, all this doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I can't afford to take my one-year-old to the dentist, and that being so poor you can't afford rent every other month is apparently not enough to keep your child on state insurance. Ah, the joys of motherhood.
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When I had problems with my wisdom teeth, I was a poor starving student. My oldest brother, computer programmer, and making a very decent wage, paid for them for me. And my dentist, also an oral surgeon, and a very decent man I knew from church, offered to give me a discount on the "I don't have insurance" basis, so we only paid I think $1000 CDN 15 years ago. If my brother hadn't paid, I'd be in very very big trouble - all four were impacted and infected.
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I remember getting mine out. I was drugged up so it could have been worse. One of the pain killers they gave me made me throw up. I think it was Lortab(sp) or something like that.
If you have swelling put ice in a ziplock bag and wrap it in a dish towel and put it on your checks. That is what helped me. Hope you heal well.
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I'm fine. I'm glad Annie has finished up her dental work though, I think she needs more good wishes, poor girl, has to go through it three times.
For Annie:
For others:
Thanks guys! (though don't wish me ice cream, I don't much care for ice cream)
Sorry, rivka, my aim is bad. Those were for Hobbesy. *removes aspersions and prepares to cast again*
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Rhubarb is yummy stuff. Pie is good, although I'm partial to rhubarb compote -- basically pie without the crust. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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quote:Although I suppose that means more for you...
Yes. This is key.
Because, though I try to be Christlike about it, when someone polishes off my half-eaten pint of Chunky Monkey and I come home to an empty freezer, it doesn't take long before I start looking for someone to take it out on.
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Well, ya know, quid, whoever is guilty of eating the Chunky Monkey probably ALSO left the empty carton in the freezer (along with the spoon which is now crystallizing and stuck permanently to the cardboard) and has run for the hills anticipating severe bodily harm upon discovery.
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