Another Update

[nf793]

Well, supposedly I am fine. I met with a neurologist on Wednesday that ordered a series of neck Xrays, as well as a CT Scan because she likes to have a base scan for her new patients. Apparently everything came back normal.

I'm only mildly comforted.

I'm relieved, of course, to hear that I'm fine. I'm still freaking out, though. I still don't know what was going on. To top it all off, I probably need to get a tooth pulled (it's been on my dentist's to-do list for a little while now, but apparently she never thought it was terribly important... now it's crumbling slowly. I miss my old dentist...). I headed home yesterday to get out of that town for a little bit, so I called my dentist this morning and wanted to reach through the phone and slap the secretary I was talking to. The "best she could do" for me was May 18. That's almost 4 weeks out. My tooth is literally breaking to pieces. I asked her for an emergency appt today and her response, I kid you not, was, "They're all booked. If you had called yesteray morning we could have fit you in." Is she fucking serious? Emergency appts are for, you know, emergencies. Like people usually know about those in advance. That's why they're Emergencies. So I guess I will be spending my afternoon looking into dentists up by school. Here's hoping I can get something soon. The timing of this tooth becoming an issue is fucking annoying. It's kind of one of the last things that I need right now.

On the trip back home yesterday, I got a phonecall from my building director on campus. Go figure, the one teacher who never checks his email (I let him know ahead of time about each class I'd be missing and that it was health reasons) reported me for missing 3 classes in a row. I went to the health center on Wednesday and spoke with the doctor, who gave me a note for my abscence. I wanted to make sure she knew what was going on, and so that I could get back into classes with minimal repercussions (not like I could have gone to class even if I tried). I will be meeting with the building director when I get back up there, so that she can set me up with Student Life to make sure the teachers excuse my abscences and get me the work that I missed. I get the feeling that teacher in particular is going to be a major ass about the whole thing. He is incredibly annoying, egocentric, and should not be a teacher. He is horrible. Hopefully Student Life can help me out.

Anyway, figured I would update again.

I really just want to live a boring, uneventful, completely average life. That's all I want, Universe. Simple.

-N.E.

Comments

[jumjumgirl.livejournal.com]

A bad tooth can cause pain in your head. :(

[nf793.livejournal.com]

Yea. My genetics aren't the greatest, in dental terms. My previous dentist once explained my condition by saying "Unless [I] eat fluoride all day every day, they're going to deteriorate rapidly no matter what [I] do." A lot of my teeth are restored, about a year and a half ago I had 3 "permanent baby teeth" removed because they were becoming an issue. I'm pretty used to dental related headaches and teeth breaking. Those headaches are very familiar to me. That's not at all what the issue was before, unfortunately. Still don't have an answer for that. I just could have done without the stress of dental problems adding to the mess of the past week and a half.

[ertai.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that the head pain wasn't a huge issue, although the tooth pain sucks. Hopefully they're related and one will fix the other. And I'd also be searching for a new dentist. Good luck.