The Dentist Appointment

     After putting off going to the dentist for over a year and having a major tooth ache I went today. You can't put things off forever. I was supposed to start treatment last fall but the advent of my father's three month stay at the hospital delayed that. Plus I did not want to spend the money I did not have. 
    Now I have two teeth that need a crown. One that will need a root canal and crown. Three teeth that need fillings. Not so good but a reality. So this is going to cost several thousand dollars for treatment. But the dentist was willing to extend credit albeit though an outside source. 
     But it is to the point that I do not enjoy eating and is making me physically sick. This is putting me in a bad position at work as I have called out from my shifts. When I do eat I sweat like a pig then get cold. Infection. 
     Every time I go to the dentist they have a new parlor trick. This one was taking something very cold and seeing if I could feel it. I could not. Meaning the teeth were essentially dead. So I trust them in the proposal that they can make them function. I will be able to chew meat but however will not be able to buy meat!
     I have to wonder if a lot of this doesn't go back to when I got braces in Kentucky in 1987. The primary cause for my teeth being out of alignment was my wisdom teeth. They were impacted. Pushing forward on the other teeth making them crooked. I now feel that if the wisdom teeth were removed at that point in time the braces ordeal would have been more successful. Do you realize what it was like living at almost and past thirty years old with braces in Kentucky? If you would have got hit in the mouth you wold get cut up badly. Every Thursday for years I had to go to the orthodontist. It would hurt to eat, people made fun of you and girls looked at you like you were some kind of drip. I guess I was a drip anyway. This just reinforced the drip and nerd mode. 
     I am afraid this is just going to usher in a plethora medical phase. As I have to go the cardiologist and regular doctor. All of which are going to put me through a battery of treatment and tests. So with the deductibles I will end up broker then broke. 
     But I guess that this is something I need to do.