Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Love / Hate Relationship with Spring
OH how I love spring. New life, beautiful flowers, the smell of a spring shower in the air. I love it all; however, spring does not love me. I am sitting here today in misery! My allergies are causing me terrible pain. I feels like a party is going on inside my right sinus cavity with all the throbbing it is doing. My sinuses are draining into my chest, causing horrible mucus..... I could go on and on about the horrible allergies I am having, but all I can say is that I REALLY LOVE SPRING!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Men!!!!
Ok.... I have to preface this post by saying that I love my husband dearly!
Once we got married I added my husband to my insurance policies at work. We did this because I had the better benefits package through my place of business. One of the reasons my insurance was better is because I actually have a dental plan, his work did not. Well since my benefits cover dental it was only logical to send my husband to the dentist, right.....
I have to tell you that he has not been to the dentist in 5 years! He does, however, have very good dental hygiene practices. He just did not get regular checkups.
So I scheduled his first appointment. It was a Tuesday morning at 8:30 AM. Thinking it should only take him about 45 minutes, since that is how long it takes me at the dentist. Boy was I wrong. He called me 3 hours later to tell me that he was out of the dentist and that he felt HORRIBLE! This is were it gets good. They only cleaned HALF of his mouth, the left half, because they had to perform the deep scale to get all of the built up plaque off of his teeth. This required him having 4 shots to numb his mouth. They also found 4 cavities that needed to be filled. They had to schedule a 2nd appointment to finish cleaning this teach.
Today he went back to the dentist to have the right half of his mouth cleaned. Another deep scale. PLUS.... he had mercury fillings that had to come out and be replaced with new fillings. $2,900 and eight shots to numb the mouth later (yes I said $2,900) his mouth is now clean; HOWEVER, he has to go back in a month to have the rest of the mercury fillings taken out. Seems that eight shots to numb the mouth is not enough to deep scale clean it plus remove mercury fillings.
Apparently the dentist wants a new pool this summer and my husband is going to single handily pay for it!!!!!!!
I can't wait to see how much of this will be covered by the insurance company, lets pray a lot of it!
I should tell you that I feel sorry for my husband. He called all numb and sour from the stuff they did in his mouth. It almost sounded like he wanted to cry because the numbness was paying off and the pain was setting in. Poor guy........... But now he is going to the dentist regularly.
Once we got married I added my husband to my insurance policies at work. We did this because I had the better benefits package through my place of business. One of the reasons my insurance was better is because I actually have a dental plan, his work did not. Well since my benefits cover dental it was only logical to send my husband to the dentist, right.....
I have to tell you that he has not been to the dentist in 5 years! He does, however, have very good dental hygiene practices. He just did not get regular checkups.
So I scheduled his first appointment. It was a Tuesday morning at 8:30 AM. Thinking it should only take him about 45 minutes, since that is how long it takes me at the dentist. Boy was I wrong. He called me 3 hours later to tell me that he was out of the dentist and that he felt HORRIBLE! This is were it gets good. They only cleaned HALF of his mouth, the left half, because they had to perform the deep scale to get all of the built up plaque off of his teeth. This required him having 4 shots to numb his mouth. They also found 4 cavities that needed to be filled. They had to schedule a 2nd appointment to finish cleaning this teach.
Today he went back to the dentist to have the right half of his mouth cleaned. Another deep scale. PLUS.... he had mercury fillings that had to come out and be replaced with new fillings. $2,900 and eight shots to numb the mouth later (yes I said $2,900) his mouth is now clean; HOWEVER, he has to go back in a month to have the rest of the mercury fillings taken out. Seems that eight shots to numb the mouth is not enough to deep scale clean it plus remove mercury fillings.
Apparently the dentist wants a new pool this summer and my husband is going to single handily pay for it!!!!!!!
I can't wait to see how much of this will be covered by the insurance company, lets pray a lot of it!
I should tell you that I feel sorry for my husband. He called all numb and sour from the stuff they did in his mouth. It almost sounded like he wanted to cry because the numbness was paying off and the pain was setting in. Poor guy........... But now he is going to the dentist regularly.
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