FA+
Shop
Who knew a toothache could kill you? Also, Heatwaves SUCK.
15 years ago
An artist with no deadlines is unemployed!
I'm not dead yet, but appearently, I was pretty damned close.
But it does nothing for me to yell at me for being too broke to get something fixed, even if it is threatening my life.
Health care is free in Canada, but DENTISTRY is not. And even when it's termed an emergancy, and even if it's possibly going to kill me, if it has something to do with my mouth, it doesn't matter. A hospital will do nothing but throw painkillers at you and tell you to get to a Dentist 'soon'.
Soon. With zero bucks to my name, you scold me about risking my life and tell me to "do something soon". When you're the only people who will do it for free. That's fucking great.
Fuck you, Canada.
So we risk losing the house, put the credit card back over it's limit and get the teeth pulled (which he would not even reduce the price or do a payment plan for us because "he can't trust us") and pray that our relatives can pool enough money to let us pay the rent.
AWESOME.
While I have to say that Percocets are awesome, the rest of this experience makes me want to scream and kick someone hard in the nuts. Like whatever fucking polititian in this country thought that it would be funny to turn Dentistry into the scamhole that it is.
So while I'm recovering and spending most of my days in a opiate induced sleepstate, my computer was left on. During a day when I am mostly lucid it bugs out, but I think nothing of it, i'm wasted, who gives a shit, right?
Oops. One heatwave later and it bugs out again and I can't get it to reboot. My husband tries to repair it, but it hangs and won't let him repair windows.
So we take it to a guy who says "yeah, this is so much melted slag...sorry about your luck - I might be able to send it to a full-recover place but that will cost over 500 bucks, and there's no real guarentee that they'll find anything."
Well we don't have 500 bucks. We didn't have the money to fix my fucking teeth that were killing me (which was more than 500!).
That's fine - where are my backups? Shit. My external harddrive died last year. My CDs are gone and I can't find them anywhere (my husband thinks we probably threw them out when we moved because backup disks were filling the house). My MP3 player! Where is that? WHY IS THERE WATER UNDER THE SCREEN!?
At any rate. All the backups have failed, my main copies are gone and I am bereft of my digital art.
All I have left is what is on the internet. And that wasn't all of it, nor is any of the stuff here the higher quality versions, as I was always protective of those.
Am I allowed to say FUCK MY LIFE yet?
I'd really like to say that.
I cried that night, but I'm not crying now, I'm too sad to cry. And too mad at myself.
But it does nothing for me to yell at me for being too broke to get something fixed, even if it is threatening my life.
Health care is free in Canada, but DENTISTRY is not. And even when it's termed an emergancy, and even if it's possibly going to kill me, if it has something to do with my mouth, it doesn't matter. A hospital will do nothing but throw painkillers at you and tell you to get to a Dentist 'soon'.
Soon. With zero bucks to my name, you scold me about risking my life and tell me to "do something soon". When you're the only people who will do it for free. That's fucking great.
Fuck you, Canada.
So we risk losing the house, put the credit card back over it's limit and get the teeth pulled (which he would not even reduce the price or do a payment plan for us because "he can't trust us") and pray that our relatives can pool enough money to let us pay the rent.
AWESOME.
While I have to say that Percocets are awesome, the rest of this experience makes me want to scream and kick someone hard in the nuts. Like whatever fucking polititian in this country thought that it would be funny to turn Dentistry into the scamhole that it is.
So while I'm recovering and spending most of my days in a opiate induced sleepstate, my computer was left on. During a day when I am mostly lucid it bugs out, but I think nothing of it, i'm wasted, who gives a shit, right?
Oops. One heatwave later and it bugs out again and I can't get it to reboot. My husband tries to repair it, but it hangs and won't let him repair windows.
So we take it to a guy who says "yeah, this is so much melted slag...sorry about your luck - I might be able to send it to a full-recover place but that will cost over 500 bucks, and there's no real guarentee that they'll find anything."
Well we don't have 500 bucks. We didn't have the money to fix my fucking teeth that were killing me (which was more than 500!).
That's fine - where are my backups? Shit. My external harddrive died last year. My CDs are gone and I can't find them anywhere (my husband thinks we probably threw them out when we moved because backup disks were filling the house). My MP3 player! Where is that? WHY IS THERE WATER UNDER THE SCREEN!?
At any rate. All the backups have failed, my main copies are gone and I am bereft of my digital art.
All I have left is what is on the internet. And that wasn't all of it, nor is any of the stuff here the higher quality versions, as I was always protective of those.
Am I allowed to say FUCK MY LIFE yet?
I'd really like to say that.
I cried that night, but I'm not crying now, I'm too sad to cry. And too mad at myself.
My husband has nearly got his "red seal" which is the Canadian version of the "Chef Title" - which will permit him to make more money. But cannot finish my education because the government wants their money back from our student loans, and they will insist on any surplus we make until things are paid off.
This means that my plans of going to Japan and being an English Teacher cannot happen because in order to move to Japan, we'd need more money than the Gov't would allow us to collect. They want that money for themselves, and they will take it from us by talking to our banks and garnishing our wages if we refuse to simply pay it to them outright.
While you owe money to the government (in Canada, at least) you can't have a savings account - they'll take it.
So every single cent we make over and above our living expenses right now, goes to the government. Sadly, because we don't make that much because I'm not qualified to work at any job save for minimum wage work, we're not even beating the interest on my loans. So we're going further into debt, hoping that my husband will start making enough money to get SOME of these loans paid off, so that we can start to beat the interest on all of our loans, so that we can get to a place where I can finish my education and finally start working at a job that pays GOOD money so that we can at least retire in peace.
>>;; We can't even afford to have kids right now, and I'm getting to a point in age (29) where I may not be able to have kids by the time we can afford to have them.
That's just life. It is uselessly unfair.
Having no dental plan sucks too. It's the s[h]ame in Greece incidentally. I really can't understand why! I bet it's cheaper than treating cancer...