Similization
23-07-2006, 01:34
It's Saturday night & I'm sitting at home by my self. Why? Because a tooth of mine is hurting like a sonofabitch. It's fairly incapacitating to be honest. I can hardly stand smoking, 'cos breathing through my mouth is extra hurty.. In short, I'm a miserable bastard.
If any of you have any tips (that can be performed on a Saturday night), I urge you to share them with poor little me.
I'm normally very much against aids & remedies of all sorts, but an hour ago I bit the bullet & bought painkillers & a bottle of vodka. Drinking the vodka, however, has turned out to be pure agony. The constant throbbing pain from before, has now be upped to feeling like someone's pounding a spike into my jawbone.
So help. Please. I'm going mad.
Now, to give this topic some semblence of legitimacy, I'd like to hear your opinions on public dental care plans. I grew up without the benefit of one, and being an ex-street urchin, this isn't my first toothache. In fact, my teeth got pretty fucked up in my youth, and I've never been able to afford doing anything radical about it. The particular tooth that's bothering me now, got smashed in a fight some 15 years ago, like half my other teeth. The crown on this one fell off a couple of months ago, but between my wallet & my tendency to get sick when dentists start drilling my teeth, I've put off getting it sorted. I'm well aware that was bloody stupid & I'm paying the price right now, so you don't need to feel like you have to tell me I'm an idiot, thank you.
Anyway, the point is that if I'd had access to free dental care when I was a kid, my teeth wouldn't be rubble today. They might be 50% plastic & 20% silver, but they wouldn't be broken shards with a tendency to fall out of my mouth for no good reason. I might still be in agony right now, but chances are I wouldn't, and I certainly wouldn't have cause to believe there'll be regular repetitions of my current predicament for the rest of my life. Moreover, I probably wouldn't scare little children to tears when I smile (yes, that actually happens on a regular basis).
Are people like me worth the expense? Or do we deserve whatever happens to us, because we've done it to ourselves? Is it perhaps better that destitutes with little or no understanding of how things work, are expected to seek out cheritable people who'll foot their dentist bills?
If any of you have any tips (that can be performed on a Saturday night), I urge you to share them with poor little me.
I'm normally very much against aids & remedies of all sorts, but an hour ago I bit the bullet & bought painkillers & a bottle of vodka. Drinking the vodka, however, has turned out to be pure agony. The constant throbbing pain from before, has now be upped to feeling like someone's pounding a spike into my jawbone.
So help. Please. I'm going mad.
Now, to give this topic some semblence of legitimacy, I'd like to hear your opinions on public dental care plans. I grew up without the benefit of one, and being an ex-street urchin, this isn't my first toothache. In fact, my teeth got pretty fucked up in my youth, and I've never been able to afford doing anything radical about it. The particular tooth that's bothering me now, got smashed in a fight some 15 years ago, like half my other teeth. The crown on this one fell off a couple of months ago, but between my wallet & my tendency to get sick when dentists start drilling my teeth, I've put off getting it sorted. I'm well aware that was bloody stupid & I'm paying the price right now, so you don't need to feel like you have to tell me I'm an idiot, thank you.
Anyway, the point is that if I'd had access to free dental care when I was a kid, my teeth wouldn't be rubble today. They might be 50% plastic & 20% silver, but they wouldn't be broken shards with a tendency to fall out of my mouth for no good reason. I might still be in agony right now, but chances are I wouldn't, and I certainly wouldn't have cause to believe there'll be regular repetitions of my current predicament for the rest of my life. Moreover, I probably wouldn't scare little children to tears when I smile (yes, that actually happens on a regular basis).
Are people like me worth the expense? Or do we deserve whatever happens to us, because we've done it to ourselves? Is it perhaps better that destitutes with little or no understanding of how things work, are expected to seek out cheritable people who'll foot their dentist bills?