Finally, I’m almost at stage two of completing my major dental work.  In 6 days, I will be heading up to Penn Dental to get my dental implant.  I am so not looking forward to it.  Luckily, it’s only going to set us back around $300 (thank the gods I do not believe in for dental [...]

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btdubz? I went from 28 to 27 teeth on Thursday.  I, as a pale and pasty faced Drunkenatheist, made it to Penn oral surgery at 10 and was back in an exam room by 10:10.  Right away, the oral surgery students started to run a big shpiel about nitrous.  A minute in, my mouth said [...]

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In about a half hour, Libertarian Boyfriend and I will be making the trek out to University City so I can start the next series of dental appointments. I’m getting one tooth extracted today. Have I mentioned how totally nervous I am? Have I mentioned how I’m convinced I am that the Novocaine won’t work [...]

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Apparently now my tooth has decided that cracking in half (up through my gumline, it would seem) is an excellent idea.  What’s even better is that the broken half is now very loose but seemingly only held in by the ligaments that hold in your teeth. Yay. For right now, I’m in a lot of [...]

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Yesterday, my endodontist called to follow up about my root canal. By our third appointment – which was two weeks ago – she had completed all the drilling and filing, and I left with a brand-spankin’ new, slightly more durable temporary filling than before. She promised that after she spoke with her team leader and [...]

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I am on Day Two of feeling stuffy and miserable. This really sucks because I still have to get my friggin schedule situated and I have to go to the post office. I also am celebrating one of my favorite people’s birthday tomorrow night and I will be in Harrisburg all day on Wednesday. Hopefully [...]

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I think I broke my pinky toe. For those of you who don’t know, my bed is solid pine with squared off feet. I, like the clumsy jackass I am, managed to slam my toe into the bed not once — but TWICE. It hurts like hell and is all swollen. And I’m having problems [...]

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In the past month, I have had asthmatic bronchitis twice, a yeast infection from the antibiotics, sniffly sneezing and the beginnings of an ear infection. I took my last dose of antibiotics yesterday, which was coincidentally the first day I felt burning in my chest again. If it weren’t so expensive, addictive and generally bad [...]

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