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patching shallow decay
Dec. 20th, 2006 02:56 amseven cavities. seven. i mean, yeah, it's my lucky number and all, but jesus. i'm simultaneously embarrassed and vindicated. i kept saying i knew my teeth were bad, and no one really believed me. but still. i just earned a banjo for that. but that's what happens when you have no insurance for eight years. (don't get me started on my insurance rant. i nearly bit my mom's head clean off when it came up earlier.) it's nearly a cavity a year. let us not even discuss the price tag for fixing seven freaking cavities. i suppose that's what credit cards are for. still, i'd have rather had a digital camera. or a piano. or my bills paid for awhile. *sigh*
the good news? they were all shallow. what does that mean? it means that i got them all filled in one hour long session, sans novocaine. hooray. now i just have to go back for a cleaning, which will be even more fun i'm sure. and to have my wisdom tooth pulled (again with the fun).
my jaw aches. worse: my teeth feel strange. i feel like i ate oreos and i can't get the crud out of the crevices. they said i had unusually deep grooves in my teeth, and that was probably why i got the lil' cavities. swell. so when they filled them in, they made my teeth more 'normal'. half of my teeth are still like canyons. organic. familiar. the rest are flat-ish. artificial. strange. i kind of hate it. a lot. the landscape in my mouth is totally different. i feel somehow violated and i can't articulate why. all i know is that it doesn't feel like me, and it makes me feel like i've lost something. other than decaying holes that is. i suppose i'll get used to it. it's better than missing the teeth altogether.
speaking of things that are missing... the emperor asked me if i still wanted to learn the piano. he's considering buying me a digital one for x-mas. we were together for over a decade. he gave me x-mas presents maybe three of those years. now we're split up (partially due to money issues), and he wants to get me a piano. i don't understand. at all. not even a little.
there's a storm coming. the first hints of wind and cloud are rolling over fort collins right now, visible to the east of us. they're predicting two feet of snow. i'm going to be stuck up here for at least a few days. my happy plans of visiting friends, buying holiday gifts, and seeing movies are all scrapped. and all i can think is: i wish i had remembered to buy milk after i left the dentist's office.
the good news? they were all shallow. what does that mean? it means that i got them all filled in one hour long session, sans novocaine. hooray. now i just have to go back for a cleaning, which will be even more fun i'm sure. and to have my wisdom tooth pulled (again with the fun).
my jaw aches. worse: my teeth feel strange. i feel like i ate oreos and i can't get the crud out of the crevices. they said i had unusually deep grooves in my teeth, and that was probably why i got the lil' cavities. swell. so when they filled them in, they made my teeth more 'normal'. half of my teeth are still like canyons. organic. familiar. the rest are flat-ish. artificial. strange. i kind of hate it. a lot. the landscape in my mouth is totally different. i feel somehow violated and i can't articulate why. all i know is that it doesn't feel like me, and it makes me feel like i've lost something. other than decaying holes that is. i suppose i'll get used to it. it's better than missing the teeth altogether.
speaking of things that are missing... the emperor asked me if i still wanted to learn the piano. he's considering buying me a digital one for x-mas. we were together for over a decade. he gave me x-mas presents maybe three of those years. now we're split up (partially due to money issues), and he wants to get me a piano. i don't understand. at all. not even a little.
there's a storm coming. the first hints of wind and cloud are rolling over fort collins right now, visible to the east of us. they're predicting two feet of snow. i'm going to be stuck up here for at least a few days. my happy plans of visiting friends, buying holiday gifts, and seeing movies are all scrapped. and all i can think is: i wish i had remembered to buy milk after i left the dentist's office.
