Started my day off nicely.
Popped off a crown while I was flossing my teeth.
Always somethin'!
Popped off a crown while I was flossing my teeth.
Always somethin'!
IDK if you remember my original tooth story.
My best friend is a dentist. I went in for his clinic rotations in dental school. A few years after he started his practice I mentioned that it was weird that I went my whole life without cavities but now I had three all in the same year. He immediately took a look in my mouth and then insisted we go to his office.
He said my teeth were super hard and the likelihood of me having multiple cavities was almost impossible. So he looked at my teeth and then filed a complaint about my dentist to whoever regulates them.
The tooth that is crowned and the one I had to have an implant for are the two teeth the other guy worked on. At the time my buddy wanted me to file a lawsuit, but I was only 26 ish at the time and didn't think it was a big deal. I still had my teeth, they just weren't as pretty.
My buddy gives me crap every time he works on my teeth.
That's my crown story.
Grandpa is home. They're pretty sure he just has anxiety (he does have pulmonary edema as well but his O2 levels are good). A doctor walked him today and talked him through his shortness of breath and gave him strategies of how to deal with the feeling he can't breath.
They also gave him some stuff to help him sleep through the attacks.
Grandma is still in the hospital. She had an MRI today. She has six broken ribs and a C3(?) fracture. They said she'll recover but it will just take time as older people don't heal that fast.
She likes the hospital food. She's not on a restricted diet and we keep offering to bring her food but she says she likes the food in the hospital. I think they have her heavily drugged
Do they have him on O2? A tank or a concentrator?
The hospital where my kids were born had great food. Sheryl ordered milkshake after milkshake...
Thanks all for the good thoughts for the grandparents.
Grandma isn't in any pain so they must have her hopped up on good meds. She keeps claiming there's a guy on the roof outside of her room. She was freaking out my sisters because she was talking about him and saying "he's right there!" while they were visiting.
I'm thinking the seeing things goes along with the not feeling any pain part
BTW, that guy abandoned his practice soon after that and headed to another state/country. They were after him for insurance fraud.
My grandmother is at a county hospital.
Maybe they have better food at county?
Grandpa was at Kaiser and he was on a "heart healthy" and "diabetic" restricted diet. Dreadful.
Wow! Do you wish you'd sued - at least to get whatever your out-of-pocket was?
See, that's the thing. My insurance covered everything so I wasn't out of money that was my own. I still had my teeth, albeit with a lot more silver but they were still there.
I had also dated one of the dental assistants and that's how I ended up with that guy in the first place.
If I had known those two teeth were going to give me problems later on, I might have sued, but there was no way to know. My buddy extracted the fillings and replaced them with amalgam (?) so they wouldn't show and I was good with that.
Probably replaced the amalgam with more modern materials.
Yeah, isn’t amalgam the silver stuff?
I loath dental work. We’re finally getting our health and dental insurance back. I don’t want to think what the dentist is going to find wrong in my mouth. It’s been 18 months since I’ve had a cleaning let alone xrays done.