Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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there may be some dental places around you that can offer low cost services and/or payment plans. That's a big roundtrip to IA City.
That's why I'm looking at the different possibilities of Insurance vs discount plan.
Thanks to our governor, Iowa is less poor friendly these days. *grumble*
One difference that I know there is in having dental insurance over not having any insurance (and I suspect this applies to discount programs) when I had an abscessed wisdom tooth so bad I could barely speak and could not open my mouth for them to get the bite-wing thingy in to take an x-ray, the dentist himself looked at which insurance plan I had, called an oral surgeon buddy of his and said, "You're still part of the ____ insurance network, right? Good. Got an opening today? No, but you do tomorrow morning? Perfect. She'll be there, and I'll get her started on antibiotics and pain meds." Then turned to me and gave me driving directions and scripts.
The year before, my mother had no insurance - and an abscessed wisdom tooth so bad that her dentist (who had been our family dentist for years, saw me when I was a kid, etc.) said he wasn't willing to try to get it out for her. Mom, in her painful state had to do all her calling around. It took her a couple of weeks to find a clinic that worked on a sliding scale and had an oral surgeon.
quester, have you tried calling the Iowa Dental Association? They should have a list of places that offer free or reduced cost dental care. Most state dental associations do. Although it will probably a long wait for an appointment or take a long time.
Sometimes individual dentists have their own financiing/payment options, they usually advertise those in the yellow pages.
So I found out why I wasn't getting hot water in the tub - I kept turning on the cold water tap thinking it was the hot one.
In my defence when I turned on the actual hot water tap there wasn't hot water coming out of it the other day.
Also the hot water heater was set on the lowest setting and has now been moved up a notch so hopefully I'll have hot water all the time and not occasionally luke warm water.
As for the kid thing, I've gotten the "oh but you'll regret it!" line before. My reply to that is, I'd rather be at the end of my life and regret not having children then having children and regretting and resenting them.
For those of you who parent 1 child and get any shit about it, I have no siblings, and my father has no siblings. His father had no siblings.
We all turned out okay. We don't/didn't have maladaptive behaviors. It is all well and good to say you might want kids to take care of you when you get older, but my mother has a brother who has been completely unreliable. She didn't have his help when my grandmother fell into ill health and later died.
Sometimes your kids pre-decease you.
Life sucks. All we can do is live it and be okay with our choices and life circumstances and try not to be assholes.
Although it will probably a long wait for an appointment or take a long time.
This wouldn't be much different than the insurance plan with the waiting period.
you've never had a paper cut? or first cut of today's paperwork?I've had them before. But rarely. So, first for this multi-day task. Ow.
I'm seeing a kung fu action movie, where one person threatens "The death of a thousand cuts!" while brandishing their sword. And the other one threatens "The death of a thousand paper cuts!" while brandishing a manila folder. See who cringes.
"I have a ream of sharp paper, and..." reaches over shoulder, "A Super-Soaker full of lemon juice!"
I can hear Hubby snoring through the wall. He's dreading the bone marrow draw tomorrow morning. He so hates IVs. Good thoughts for a simple procedure and favorable news. May the odds be ever in his favor.
Ever in his favor.
Glad he's getting sleep tonight. And thinking of you both. It is a rough time but he's beaten so many things, I think he's got more win left.
Ever in his favor.