I miff my toof :(

[pasithea]

So... Yesterday I had my right front tooth extracted. Goodbye old friend. :( It put up a noble battle. It had held on for twelve yearsdespite all the damage the drunk driver inflicted on me. *sigh* I want my toof back. :( I have stitches and bleeding and a temporary denture now. It's all ugly and uncomfortable. In a year I'll have an implant but it's not the same was my toof. I take good care of my teeth and the only problems they have ever had was due to the actions of one drunkard in a car. :/ Sometimes it really angers me how people like that get little more than a slap on the wrist. The guy that ran down and killed my friend Becky in highschool got only community service and his liscense suspended until he was 25. He was a minor so he didn't even get a criminal record for murdering one of my best friends. :/ Isn't america great? We just let people comit crimes of ignorance and arrogance with very little reprisal. I bet that Bush's daughters never spent so much as an hour behind bars, and even if they'd killed someone, they'd have got nothing. :/

Me. I got hit in Pennsylvania which is a no-fault insurance state, so even though the guy was drunk and ran a stopsign and nearly killed a pedestrian, it wasn't his fault. My car insurance paid for my hospital stay and myc ar insurance rates went up. I lost some of my memory, three teeth, and much of my face. In the years since the accident, I've had continued trouble with my damaged teeth. In the lastyear I spent about $2000 trying to save my tooth and before this adventure is over, I'll have spent almost another $2000 on it and it will last maybe 10 or 20 years, at which point I have to repeat this process. I'm not even counting the time off work or the pain and suffering. *sigh*

Anyhow, enough of this, I guess. Just a little sad and upset. I miss my toof. :( I can't even speak now.\

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I don't blame you -- the first time I lost a tooth (I lost TWO, I have bad teeth, despite being insanely obsessive over them), I felt SHAME. Seriously. Like some sort of trailer trash.

But you have a plan, and you will get implants and let me know how it goes and that would be great. ;) I guess you will get used to what you have now, its not the same, but I bet people who dont know you well wont notice.

NY is a no fault state, Dad got reamed in the back by idiots, and by his insurance company because of all this. My hospital bills, too. I felt so bad, but I was pregnant at the time, I couldn't just walk it off (and he wouldnt let me). Another friend got hit by a drunk uninsured jerk -- that was lots of trouble, too.

The penalties for drunk driving are simply too lenient. Perhaps because of Dan's struggles with beer I have little tolerance for drunkedness, but drinking and driving, I cannot think of a single excuse of why anyone should do it. I say throw the book at them.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Well, so far the dentist has been very reasonable; all the repeat work is free, as are the checkup visits.

Very cool, that.

But that just means fifteen hundred last year, nearly a thousand this year, and then another thousand next...

We should be able to cover it, though. Save up, drive right, use credit properly.