I'm a bit miffed today. Here's why:
As you know from last week's post, I recently got 1/4th of a new tooth from the dentist on the 29th of last month. It was great! However, when I came back in on the 1st of this month to get my required cleaning... Not so great.
The hygienist was the worst hygienist I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. She was very inept with her prodding while creating my periodontal chart--using unnecessarily excessive force and a bad attitude!--and she didn't even perform the cleaning! She claimed she was "overbooked" and didn't "have time" to do the cleaning I was scheduled for. She ordered that I buy some $20 mouthwash and come back again in two weeks when she felt more like dealing with me. (What??). Anyway, foolishly perhaps, I did what I was told.
What followed that visit was a full list of horrors occurring in my mouth. I won't go into details because it's super gross, but needless to say I've been in a LOT of pain since that day. I finally broke down and called the dentist's "emergency" line over the weekend...and they said they'd see me on Monday (today).
The doc's diagnosis...?
That's right. I was told to "deal with it" and was sent home.
More specifically, I was told that the $20 mouthwash that the stupid hygienist made me buy had created a horrific allergic reaction in my mouth and that there was "nothing we can do about it." I was told that I just have to "wait a week or two for the body to heal itself." Then they tried to scam me into seeing an outrageously expensive "specialist" and still wanted me to come back for my scheduled cleaning on the 18th (the appointment the hygienist would have "had time" for). Needless to say I said "No, thank you" and not only refused to see their "specialist" but cancelled my appointment for the 18th. Forget that!!
My original dentist might be 5 towns away from where I live now, but at least he never destroyed my mouth and said "oh well" afterward! Once I'm healed up in "a week or two," I'll be heading to him. (Maybe this is what I get from straying from my loyalty to my dentist? ...But he wasn't open on Friday when my tooth broke! I didn't mean it!)
Anyway, here are a couple of great Harry Potter (and Twilight) related pictures Ramiro found for me on the Internet to cheer me up:
So that's pretty much been my week: Pain, pain, and more pain. And work, work, and more work. I recently took on a second "real" job ("real" as in it's another writing job with regular hours & a payroll and stuff like my writing job with WTR) for the month of August. Plus I'm still writing dog articles and working on my own projects on the side.
Speaking of which...
I wrote an e-book on how to do what I do! :) I had so much trouble figuring everything out when I first left my "day job" to become a professional writer, I figured I'd write it all down so others wouldn't have to go through what I did. It's going to be available for sale on my website on August 17, 2011. Ramiro designed the cover!
That's all for now.
--Lauren*
http://littlezotz.com
