Another financial kick in the nuts! -vs- Oh the Pain!!!

Pick which ever title works for you.

For the past week my lower right jaw has been bothering me then the pain isolated itself and intensified in the bottom very last jaw tooth on the right. The pain got so bad that on Friday afternoon I called my dentists office to discover that he was already gone for the day and would not be back until Monday. I thought ok I can put up with this until Monday boy was I wrong! Friday night I awoke in the middle of the night in such pain I wanted to scream. It felt like someone was kicking me in the jaw with a steel tow boot. I took some Advil and waited almost two hours for it to kick in before I could get to sleep again. Saturday started off the same way I awoke to the pain and took more Advil but now I also have the addition of being tired as well due to the lack of sleep. About an hour latter I took “little miss” to ball hockey I took more Advil before we left one an hour and a half later when we got back home I called Newfie Dragon Fly’s dentist spoke to the receptionist she told me to come right in.

I have to explain that for me to do this I am really suffering. I am also worried because the tooth that is bothering me is one that I had a root canal done in 12 years ago. There is no nerve in that tooth so why is it hurting???

Anyway I get to the dentist and two x-rays later I am told that the root canal has in the dentists words “failed and the tooth has become infected” I am also told that the root canal has to be redone and that because there is not much of the original tooth remaining I have to have a crown put over it at a total estimated cost of $2500. Holy Shit!!!
Right now I have having trouble finding enough gas money to keep the car going until pay day where am I going to come up with $2500. The second kick in the nuts is she also said that it will be almost a month before I can get it done! She gave me penicillin to deal with the infection and Atasol 30’s for the pain.

Let me just say I AM NOT GOING TO LAST A MONTH and neither will the prescription!!!!

Last night the pain was so intense I too two Advil and two Atasol 30”s and all it did was take the edge off. The prescription was for 12 pills I already have half gone and it’s only been one day how am I supposed to last a full month??? I am going to call my dentist on Monday so I have to wait one more day and worst of all one more night before I can find anything else out.