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Update on the tooth situation - Update already???
6 years ago
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Y’all wanna hear some bullshit? Let’s talk some bullshit.
So let’s rewind a bit. I got my wisdom teeth out, one of them had cracked the molar in front of it, causing this one to also need to come out. So I go to the dental clinic and they tell me that it’s a two month wait for my appointment, *however*, they might have a sooner appointment at another location, which also does walk-ins. So I call that other location to ask about walk-ins, and they tell me that the only walk-ins they do are for x-rays, because the location that referred me to them has a broken x-ray machine. *However*, they have *another* location that does do urgent care walk-ins, and they’re open on Thursday (today) and Friday (tomorrow), but they’re first come first serve, so get in early.
So I go in at 10am today and they tell me that they don’t do walk-ins, and then clarified that they’re not the urgent care center, despite having been directed there, but they can take me there and that there’s a doctor available to extract my tooth immediately, I just have to fill out the forms.
So I’m filling out the forms and I hear someone call my name. I go up to the counter and they tell me that the urgent care center is *specifically for people who have never used their services before*, and because I have an appointment set for *fucking February*, that means that I cannot use the urgent care facility, because I have “used their services”. I asked them how that works, since I haven’t had *any* work done at any of their locations, which negates my status of having been a patient, and they tell me that just by having gone to one of their locations, that means I am a previous patient. When I mentioned that I’m in extreme pain, that I can’t eat and I can’t sleep due to pain, the bitch at the counter just said, “everyone here is in the exact same boat.”
None of this makes any sense, though, because in order to even *know* about the urgent care, you have to have gone to one of their locations, which would negate your ability to *use* the urgent care services at all.
So in all of my time going to this clinic and the other clinics that they have referred me to, they’ve just *lied* to me, over and over again, costing us time and money and gas, all for literally nothing to be done. I’m still sitting here with an ice pack to my face, counting down the time until I can take more ibuprofen, and getting dangerously close to overdosing on it until I can get this taken care of.
My partner is calling his stepfather today, because the only other dental clinic around here costs $400 for a single extraction, and I don’t have that much money. I have the amount that Apollo helped me raise, which would cover a little over half of that, so hopefully my partner’s stepfather can cover the rest and just tack on the amount that I’ll owe him for this onto the amount I owe him for covering the wisdom tooth extractions. Whether or not he’s amicable to that is still unknown, but it’s literally the only option I have.
I’m tired.
Y’all wanna hear some bullshit? Let’s talk some bullshit.
So let’s rewind a bit. I got my wisdom teeth out, one of them had cracked the molar in front of it, causing this one to also need to come out. So I go to the dental clinic and they tell me that it’s a two month wait for my appointment, *however*, they might have a sooner appointment at another location, which also does walk-ins. So I call that other location to ask about walk-ins, and they tell me that the only walk-ins they do are for x-rays, because the location that referred me to them has a broken x-ray machine. *However*, they have *another* location that does do urgent care walk-ins, and they’re open on Thursday (today) and Friday (tomorrow), but they’re first come first serve, so get in early.
So I go in at 10am today and they tell me that they don’t do walk-ins, and then clarified that they’re not the urgent care center, despite having been directed there, but they can take me there and that there’s a doctor available to extract my tooth immediately, I just have to fill out the forms.
So I’m filling out the forms and I hear someone call my name. I go up to the counter and they tell me that the urgent care center is *specifically for people who have never used their services before*, and because I have an appointment set for *fucking February*, that means that I cannot use the urgent care facility, because I have “used their services”. I asked them how that works, since I haven’t had *any* work done at any of their locations, which negates my status of having been a patient, and they tell me that just by having gone to one of their locations, that means I am a previous patient. When I mentioned that I’m in extreme pain, that I can’t eat and I can’t sleep due to pain, the bitch at the counter just said, “everyone here is in the exact same boat.”
None of this makes any sense, though, because in order to even *know* about the urgent care, you have to have gone to one of their locations, which would negate your ability to *use* the urgent care services at all.
So in all of my time going to this clinic and the other clinics that they have referred me to, they’ve just *lied* to me, over and over again, costing us time and money and gas, all for literally nothing to be done. I’m still sitting here with an ice pack to my face, counting down the time until I can take more ibuprofen, and getting dangerously close to overdosing on it until I can get this taken care of.
My partner is calling his stepfather today, because the only other dental clinic around here costs $400 for a single extraction, and I don’t have that much money. I have the amount that Apollo helped me raise, which would cover a little over half of that, so hopefully my partner’s stepfather can cover the rest and just tack on the amount that I’ll owe him for this onto the amount I owe him for covering the wisdom tooth extractions. Whether or not he’s amicable to that is still unknown, but it’s literally the only option I have.
I’m tired.
Hope you get that thing out fast