On March 29, 2009, as I lay on the streetside, I was ticing and trembling and shaking and said so, and that I didn't know how to stop it. No response from the EMT.
The end result is that 2¾ years later, there is still no one listening to me, to give me answers.
My lower jaw is offline and I have to chew carefully or my top teeth will land behind my bottom teeth. However, with all the gnashing that has taken place in the meantime, I have the trouble but no assistance from my Dr. or a Neurologist, then time passed by and my teeth were shifting. My own dentist said it was because I was old. He would not "give in" to examine what I was saying, so I have not gone back.
I went to another, an orthodontist, and by cracky, my teeth were cleaned, my x-rays taken (right on the heels of the other dentist) and at the end of the 2 hours, the orthodontist came in and spoke to his girls..3 were gathered around... (I call him Satan and his Barbie Dolls) and all he asked of me was to smile, then he went on to tell them what to do
Oh no! I made make another apointment that I felt was of no benefit to me, but when I came home, I called and cancelled and was up to my eyeballs in ?????s. Then I was bombarded with emails from this second dentist, so unsubsrcibed and, in spite of that, I again received notice that I was due another cleaning and x-rays.
I wrote to my original dentist telling him the same as I had told him in person (that I didn't know how to handle it) waited and no reply. Eventually along came a notice that I was overdue for my cleaning and x-rays. (Did you hear me scream?)
In all four inside corners of my teeth there is a gap, big enough to fool my tongue into probing the space, for chicken and beef, and that has been going on for 1½ years. I now filll the gaps with othodontic wax, and wear a mouth guard, as in hockey, at night. Now wouldn't that tell someone that something was wrong? What my tongue experiences is that all this poking and prodding has left loose skin on my tongue and it feels as though I have food stuck there....so....
I pack the gaps with orthodontic wax, and this makes my tongues recognize "smoothness" and that feels SO good I smooth it all way and swallow it--whatever the concoction is, it causes me to cough, a dry cough so I have to prevent my tongue from poking, so I stuffed a mouth guard in there....for all night, and sometimes most of the day---I use chewing gum, or the wax only when out in public.
I use my size 10 steel crochet hook (I think it is the smallest) to poke out the wax, set it aside and eat drink at mealtimes, then brush my teeth and reinstall the wax "forms" in the same gaps....that lasts a few days but I forget and sometimes eat them....good pluggers for X-Lax to attack!
The other choice which I use.... at 72... and snapping my gum is not my idea of being a 'lady'.
The physiatrist, for Nov 23, for which appointment I had waited for NINE months, didn't have me booked----whose fault? either my lawyer's gal (fired about 9 month ago for something else) who knew there was a 2 hour space for me, or the Dr.'s secretary who didn't mark me down. If I were not crazy already, I would have flipped my lid!
So now there is Discovery in July, 2012, and Court in January, 2013, but I still have no satisfaction on the pain and my dental situation to take to court.
Nothing has taught me more patience that all this crap that I have endured, because there is not a damned thing that can fix it...
The balloon has been broken.
The words have been spoken.
The egg has been scrambled,
And my life is in shambles.
and there's no fixin'
The damage that's done.
But I'm a year past smoking
So doubt I'll be croaking
And hope I'm not joking
But in 10 years be the token
Of one not needing fixing,
But left to have a pile of fun.
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