Sometimes even positive gals get the blues
There's no denying it, I have the blues. While I gave my best effort to remain positive, I'm afraid the news I received this morning has pushed me lower than ever.
I went for a check up at the dentist. A check up because my teeth don't give me problems. At the age of 27 I am filling free. This makes me happy because I have struggled with many things in my life, namely acne. It hardly seemed fair to have a painful teeth and skin. This morning my usual happy dental visit was shattered when he uttered the words, "You have problems." The problems he speaks of is that I require FOUR FILLINGS! I couldn't hold back when he told me and actually burst into tears! Shame poor guy felt extremely awkward and stiffly patted my arm and told me he would be gentle.
I explained that I honestly couldn't care about the pain, I'm far more concerned about the fact that I have an beautiful, untouched pearly whites and now I have tarnished, disgusting filling filled teeth. I felt like I was six years old again and my brother was taunting me about "Harry the Germ". The fictitious character my parents invented to prevent us from eating sweets when we were young.
I want to a new set of teeth please! Since the dentist could see that I was flabbergasted (largely because I floss and brush religiously) he explained that it all dates back to my piece-of-shit orthodontist. I know he was crap, it took him three and half years to do a two-year job and it would seem his poor handiwork has left the imprint of cavities on my mouth.
So, I've now scheduled two appointments to do these dreaded tasks. I've opted for white fillings because I want to maintain the illusion of being untouched. So now I have to find around R2000! Awesomeness. For some reason, my health always seems to take a beating a few weeks before Christmas and then ends up costing me far too much money. Remember last year?
Added to this, one of my freelance jobs has told me they won't need anymore stories for the rest of the year and the idea, the excitement, the one thing keeping me going seems to be put on ice.
I'm going to the dermatologist on Thursday - give me strength because if I find out I have a rare and expensive skin disorder I will have a nervous breakdown... oh wait I do, it's called acne and I suppose it's not that rare!
posted by boldly benny @ Tuesday, November 10, 2009
10 Comments:
Have courage! Sorry to hear you're going through this but you will get through it and no one will even worry that you have fillings or acne. That is not who you are! It is the person you are who is really important. And on the work front I'm sure that something really great will arrive to fill the gap of those assignments that are on hold. Everything always happens for a reason!
*hugs*
That sucks...no wonder you're a bit down. Don't be too hard on yourself - once the fillings are in you'll hardly notice them. Better you find out now than when you end up needing a root canal (much more than R2000 and a lot more painful too!).
Nooooo, sorry to hear about the fillings.
That is just horrible, Benny. I hate it when you're expecting the usual "everything's fine" and then you get handed a problem that's going to cost you money.
But the white fillings are really good - you can't see them at all. Unless you're really, really close and staring directly at the teeth, which doesn't generally happen.
Thanks momcats, your comments inspire me :)
Thanks BB, I need them!
Yip Louisa, the dentist mentioned that these things can escalate to root canal and I nearly had a stroke. Thanks for the kind comments.
Thanks Po
Thanks T, your comments are comforting :)
Your choppers will look just as good as ever to the outside world, I assure you. Or...you can try a no-teeth smile, but that would make you look fake. :-D See, there are TEETH in that smiley face. Let me show you again...
:-D
I have more fillings than teeth, kinda.
Oh my, I can completely relate, as someone who also has yet to have a filling, I think the first time the dentist tells me I need on I'll also be devastated! But I definitely think you're going the right route with the white, that'd so be my choice as well.
Hope you feel better soon and don't get any more nasty surprises! (and considering the day I had today, I mean that more than ever!!)
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No teeth does sound very fake DBAWIW :-D
Oh Philly at least you know you can come straight to me should you ever need a filling! You can cry on my shoulder and I can walk you through the process... although I should mention... it's not pleasant!
Anon I'm not sure what you're on about!
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