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bad week competition, and more teeth problems
Thursday, March 16th, 2006 03:39 pmYou know, I've been feeling fairly sorry for myself - and still am, although slightly happier today despite extra bad last night happenings - but a regular customer of mine today told me a story that has me pipped at the post.
His recounting of last Monday, in this order:
- He found out that one of his poker mates had died. At the kitchen table funnily enough.
- His computer died, which he does all his work on.
- He found out an actor he likes a lot died. THis actor was the one-armed guy in the fugitive and played a character on Bablyon 5.
- His mum called him to tell him his uncle Ben had died.
My comment? "Garfield, eat your heart out."
Stuff happening to one's self usually affects one more though, so I will continue and tell you all the story of last night *heh*
Sparing ye all of the details of the procedure, I had the second stage of my root canal done of Monday night. They put a temp filling in there, which you're supposed to leave alone for 24hours so that it can set properly. I like giving things extra time, so I left it alone until last night (48 hrs). My teeth were feeling pretty feral by this time, so I brushed them, only to feel something in my mouth and a big hole in my mouth. Yup, despite leaving it alone, the temp filling had come out. The first stage of the root canal had used a temp filling too, and that one stayed in just fine, so I'm not sure why this one didn't work. So instead of going to bed last night at 9:30pm, I'm calling RPH emergency to see if they know where I can go for emergency fillings that late at night because I was scared of germs and stuff getting in where the root usually goes and having infected teeth and then nightmare dentist visits following. I didn't know who else to call at that time of night. RPH put me through to "Health Direct" who gives me two after-hours dental numbers to call. The first one just had a long recorded message, which ended "call *mobile* for emergency dental requirements." I wrote the number down and called the second number Health Direct gave me. It just rang for ages with no answer. Call the mobile number from the first number, spill out my story ending with "Can you help me?" and get "Not really, this is for things like big accidents and *stuff is a similar vein*. Try Yellow Pages." I say thanks and hang up, then start crying and ranting about fucking dentists and how for someone who freaks out at them, I seem to be having to visit them a lot (won't elaborate). At the start of my phone call to RPH, Z had come to the doorway, then went away again after a few seconds of hearing me on the phone. We had both been going to bed, and I thought he'd gone off to bed and left me so I was also feeling somewhat abandoned. I was crying over the dental section of the Yellow Pages when he came back out to see how I was, made a comment about he didn't know how he could help. I told him he could stay for support, and felt a little better. Called a few places that said 24hrs emergency, and discovered that it actually means "leave a message" or that the phone would ring without being picked up. Finally found one that worked, and he told me not to worry, that it wouldn't be harmed and it would just mean that my dentist would have to clean the tooth out again. At about the same time Z found something that said the same thing on the internet. So I calmed down and finally got to bed at about 10:45pm. Called my dentist this morning, got an appointment for tomorrow and they said it should be fine until then. My cheek kinda goes in when the slight gap is, and I gotta think about keeping my tongue from exploring. One nice thing was that I woke up to the phone ringing at 7am this morning, and it was a dental guy saying he had a missed call from my number at 10pm last night. I thought it was nice that he checked back.
Long paragraph shall stand as is.
For some reason the layout of my journal and friend's page has changed. Colour scheme still looks fine, just the layout. I haven't touched the settings, so I'm not sure why the random change. I will investigate when I'm not on my work computer and I can also be stuffed to do so.
His recounting of last Monday, in this order:
- He found out that one of his poker mates had died. At the kitchen table funnily enough.
- His computer died, which he does all his work on.
- He found out an actor he likes a lot died. THis actor was the one-armed guy in the fugitive and played a character on Bablyon 5.
- His mum called him to tell him his uncle Ben had died.
My comment? "Garfield, eat your heart out."
Stuff happening to one's self usually affects one more though, so I will continue and tell you all the story of last night *heh*
Sparing ye all of the details of the procedure, I had the second stage of my root canal done of Monday night. They put a temp filling in there, which you're supposed to leave alone for 24hours so that it can set properly. I like giving things extra time, so I left it alone until last night (48 hrs). My teeth were feeling pretty feral by this time, so I brushed them, only to feel something in my mouth and a big hole in my mouth. Yup, despite leaving it alone, the temp filling had come out. The first stage of the root canal had used a temp filling too, and that one stayed in just fine, so I'm not sure why this one didn't work. So instead of going to bed last night at 9:30pm, I'm calling RPH emergency to see if they know where I can go for emergency fillings that late at night because I was scared of germs and stuff getting in where the root usually goes and having infected teeth and then nightmare dentist visits following. I didn't know who else to call at that time of night. RPH put me through to "Health Direct" who gives me two after-hours dental numbers to call. The first one just had a long recorded message, which ended "call *mobile* for emergency dental requirements." I wrote the number down and called the second number Health Direct gave me. It just rang for ages with no answer. Call the mobile number from the first number, spill out my story ending with "Can you help me?" and get "Not really, this is for things like big accidents and *stuff is a similar vein*. Try Yellow Pages." I say thanks and hang up, then start crying and ranting about fucking dentists and how for someone who freaks out at them, I seem to be having to visit them a lot (won't elaborate). At the start of my phone call to RPH, Z had come to the doorway, then went away again after a few seconds of hearing me on the phone. We had both been going to bed, and I thought he'd gone off to bed and left me so I was also feeling somewhat abandoned. I was crying over the dental section of the Yellow Pages when he came back out to see how I was, made a comment about he didn't know how he could help. I told him he could stay for support, and felt a little better. Called a few places that said 24hrs emergency, and discovered that it actually means "leave a message" or that the phone would ring without being picked up. Finally found one that worked, and he told me not to worry, that it wouldn't be harmed and it would just mean that my dentist would have to clean the tooth out again. At about the same time Z found something that said the same thing on the internet. So I calmed down and finally got to bed at about 10:45pm. Called my dentist this morning, got an appointment for tomorrow and they said it should be fine until then. My cheek kinda goes in when the slight gap is, and I gotta think about keeping my tongue from exploring. One nice thing was that I woke up to the phone ringing at 7am this morning, and it was a dental guy saying he had a missed call from my number at 10pm last night. I thought it was nice that he checked back.
Long paragraph shall stand as is.
For some reason the layout of my journal and friend's page has changed. Colour scheme still looks fine, just the layout. I haven't touched the settings, so I'm not sure why the random change. I will investigate when I'm not on my work computer and I can also be stuffed to do so.
