What is pissing you off this time?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I hear ya, I inherited soft teeth. Even though I drank lots of milk(I had cows), I can remember when I was about 12 my father sent me to the dentist. He said you have 12 cavities, I'll fill 2 and come back next week. The next week he said you have 11 cavities, I'll fill 2 and come back next week. WTF? This went on all summer.

It continued in the vein, 8 root canals, of which 1 blew up on a flight from Philly to Seattle, and another camping in the California mountains. Plus an extra cap for one my gym teacher broke. I swallowed that one the night before I got married the first time, but that's another story.

After continuous bullshit, when I was 42 I said take 'em out, all of 'em. The dentist resisted saying I was too young and when(if) I got old, the dentures would have worn my gums down too far for the dentures to be stable. He changed his mind when I started frothing at the mouth, blood shooting out of my eyes, and claws growing from my hairy knuckles.

That was 30 years ago and I haven't regretted it for a moment.

[Snakeadelic]

Bruce, if it weren't for my particular sort of TMJ, I'd already have a lower denture! My upper teeth are falling apart much more slowly than my lowers. Unfortunately, Medicaid says I can only have dentures redone once a decade, while the lower partial I had made like 3 years ago no longer allows my mouth to close and no longer sits flush on where my molars used to be--it barely touches my jaw on either side in that area, and sticking it down with denture glue won't help.

My dentist had a light-bulb-goes-on moment probably 5 years back. It was March, and I'd been in for a bunch of minor fillings & such the previous November. I told him he needed to X-Ray my mouth again, and he said the November images would do fine. I pushed and since I pay him out of pocket he caved.

TEN new cavities in five months. On a relatively low-sugar diet. TEN. The look on his face...I even took a photo of the X-Ray on the lightboard to show to my family.

My mom was like "Yup, you got my teeth." She currently has to have the last 2 remaining lowers extracted (in 2 weeks) as both are abscessed, and she just discovered that someone has somehow evaded a triple-count process at her pharmacy and has been skimming her pain meds. There are 20 less in the bottle than it was supposed to have. I guess more than just weak teeth runs in the family! She's got a pain med crisis in a state that despises elderly women (she's 68) AND pain medication use (she has osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, a Z-shaped lumbar spine with massive arthritis, lumbar scoliosis, fibromyalgia, an unrepaired torn rotator cuff, no ACL in one knee, and a half dozen or so other incurable pain sources). I've got viral laryngitis and no guarantee that the 2 runs of antibiotic have actually worked. I owe my dentist like $1500 and am deathly afraid that the next infection 'hot spot' in my mouth is under the crowned root canal he just had to fix in July because it popped entirely out of my jaw, post and all, while he was working on a different tooth entirely.

[Snakeadelic]

For the record, my dentist is highly competent. He's root-canaled 4 other teeth, 3 crowned and 1 small upper uncrowned because it sits at a 45-degree angle and overlaps a neighbor. ZERO problems other than the one popping loose. The crowned root canal on the other side of my lower jaw has never once given me trouble. I know one thing--I will NOT be going back to that butcher in Missoula. Ever.

[Snakeadelic]

ANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDD the hits keep rolling in. I'm finally just about recovered from the Pit of Dental Despair, over the laryngitis, feeling about 75% like I do on my good days.

So of course the neighbor who does all our driving had to haul himself to the ER with severe abdominal pain at 5:30 this morning. It's now 1:00 in the afternoon and he's been shipped to a hospital in another freaking county for more specialized care of what is suspected to be an intestinal blockage. I have a "care package" of warm socks, fresh undies, and his preferred toiletries on its way to him and have only 1 step remaining in the "get the truck home before it gets towed" square dance of overly difficult details.

Meanwhile, I'm giving serious thought to taking up drinking again.

[Snakeadelic]

Well, the neighbor's home. It only took SEVEN HOURS for him to make it 60 miles. A friend came over to go rescue the neighbor's truck so the local ER wouldn't tow it; friend was supposed to drive the truck home. Turns out neighbor was getting discharged, so friend took neighbor's truck to go get neighbor.

And of course our friend went to the OTHER hospital in a college town of 100K or so. And then he had to get dropped off at his home, 7 miles north of us. In a near-blizzard. Leaving a man who'd had like 9 morphine shots in 2 days (and 4 Dilaudid!) to drive himself home. Their driveway is a car-eating ditch nightmare, and of COURSE the neighbor put his truck in the ditch. I got a text about waiting for a tow truck, and like an hour later the poor neighbor rolls in driving his truck!

By then, despite having apparently blown my left shoulder sleeping on it wrong, I had washed every scrap of laundry in the house--4 or 5 loads, because our water pipes were frozen for a week or so. This included washing and re-making the bed, and it also included some of the leftover heavyweight pain meds from my dental nightmare.

Good times, folks. Good times. This (unladylike word here) is what I call a "character-building experience." When ppl tell me I'm just such a character, I tell 'em it's because I've had so many character-building experiences.

[Gravdigr]

...and I'm bitching about being cold.

[Griff]

damn

[classicman]

Whoa. Sorry. How is everyone now?

[Griff]

It pisses me off when Big Pharma gets more votes than the American people.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...stry/96506340/

[classicman]

"Sanders pointed to research showing some of the highest prices in the world for drugs are in the United States. It’s encouraging, he said, that 12 Republicans voted for the measure, and he hopes more will sign on following President-elect Donald Trump’s statement Wednesday that the pharmaceutical industry is "getting away with murder" for what they charge the federal government for drugs."

Should have been addressed when they passed the ACA. If they could limit/control what the Ins companies could make, why not Pharma, providers, manufacturers and wholesalers also? Is it just me that sees the idiocy in that? The others are still raping us and the only one "penalized" was the insurance industry. Why is that? Their costs are 100% a reflection of the others I mentioned. Its fucking stupid.

[Griff]

They didn't have the votes when they put together the ACA because pharma owns these bitches. It was one of the criticisms back then. In the intervening years the other party chose to make meaningless votes to end it instead of fixing some of the more obvious problems.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm running Windows 7pro with a virtual running windows XP and Outlook Express for my email. My computer decided to loose the virtual, my email, address book, and 80 prepared attachments for my Daily Dose. Tried restore back to 2010 with no luck.

[Gravdigr]

Fuck a goddamned radio.

I hope Marconi is getting buttfucked in the mouth in one of your deeper pits of hell as I post this.

And to whoever is in charge of whatever we-must-own-them-all company that has royally fucked up radio from one end of the dial to the other:

I hope you get buttfucked to death by a goddamned gorilla.

[fargon]

What happened Grav?

[Gravdigr]

Too much bullshit, and not enough music, on the fucking radio.

Radio can suck my balls.

I'm done with it.