A couple of weeks ago, I was eating a pretzel and I felt something hard in my mouth. My right back molar had started to break off! I couldn't believe it! As time went on, more and more of it broke off until now I've lost over 1/2 of the tooth! The past couple of years, my front teeth have been slowly getting worse, I am pretty sure it is a complication from my gastric bypass, since I do not absorbe calcium like I should (I've had tests done which confirm that I do not absorb it, and it just sits in my kidney until it turns into a stone. I had my upper teeth fixed about a year ago, but it cost me a fortune. I have so many doctor bills (I'm the six million dollar woman in debt) that I have to make payments on this account. I've maxed out my dental benefits already for the year, so I have to pay for everything out of pocket. My dentist refused to see me until I could pay off my bill over $500. Great! DH pulled through again and was able to borrow some money so that I could go to the dentist. The dentist took xrays of my teeth, which by now were throbbing and I was having pain up into my ear, so I knew it was infected! He looked at the xrays and then said, hey, I won't touch this, you will need at least 2 root canals and many of your canals have calcified, which means that it will take a lot of work. He gave me an antibiotic and a referral to the endodontist. I just got the endodontist paid off! Now 2 more root canals! Yikes! This is something that can't wait until next year! So I will see the endodontist tomorrow. I do like my endodontist, he is also about my age, and has good taste in music. My first root canal he loaned me his MP3 player so that I could listen to some music instead of the drilling. He is very thoughtful and understanding. Good bedside manner. I praise GOD that my specialists are all so kind. Now if I can just find a general doc with the same misdeamenor I'll be set.
That brings me to the freaking out. Last night I went to wash my face and switch my contacts to my glasses. I put my glasses on and I couldn't see out of my left eye, it was blurry. I washed, rewashed and rewashed the lenses to no avail. I thought maybe my lens had fallen out and was put in backwards (this has happened before) but dh said that he hadn't replaced the lens. I was so tired since I hadn't slept in over 50 hours that I did fall asleep (it was the Nyquil). I woke up this morning and went to switch the glasses back to contacts. Glasses off, I was still having trouble seeing out of my left eye. It almost looks like I have a film over the eye. That worries me. I put saline in my eye to wash it out. Then I go and get a new, clean left contact. I put it in and I still can't see. Everything is blurry in that eye. My eyes and heart are about the only organs working properly! I'm freaking out, what could this be? What caused it? Could it be a side effect of something? What's going on? I put an eye patch over my left eye to help with my perception, but I am still tripping and falling all over myself. 3 hours until I can call my optometrist! I'll say a prayer in the meantime. If you happen to read this, please say a prayer for me too. What is next?
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