DOGGIE DENTAL DILEMMA 2: MATCHING MOLAR MUTILATION
Ok! So I woke up today feeling surprisingly alive. I'm still not 100% but I no longer want to just lie on the floor and sleep, so I'll take it. Here is how things are breaking down, by order of direness:
DOG:
I went doctor shopping for a local veterinary hospital to have the Captain's new broken tooth removed, and found a place about 5 blocks away from the house. Doctor Barcus (who assures me he's heard plenty of comments on his name/profession combo) gave me a price breakdown for the procedure and a fax number so the old clinic can send the Captain's records ahead and save me the cost of another bloodwork (and possibly x-rays). The high end cost of the procedure is looking to be around $425, with room to expand upward if something goes wrong (like another tooth breaks in the days before the operation). I'll be taking him in at 9am on the day of the operation, and they'll give the tooth a look-over to make sure it's beyond saving. He says there is a small chance that it may not need to come out, depending on whether that's pulp I'm seeing with my untrained pet-owner eyes.
This new place uses some kind of bone graft material to fill the hole left by the tooth, which is kind of awesome. I like that they do these little things for the well-being of Mere Animals. Also, I will be finding out about insurance/payment options as well, since posters have hipped me to the usefulness of such things.
#1s:
I am about to start the final push. Once all the comics are done, I'll send off the non-combo orders first, then the ones that require additional items from the Studio to be processed. I feel pretty crappy about how my grand plan came out in the end, but I learned a lesson--never process your own comic orders! Hahaha. I'll open up special sketched issues again someday, but it'll be convention-only from now on, to spare the chaos.
CONS:
I have made peace with not being able to go to Animazement or A-Kon. You guys who offered to help me make it are awesome, but I'd be bringing you the worst of Luka and nobody wants to hang out with that. It's mainly time and energy that are lacking, so I'm going to reinvest everything I've got into Anime Expo, which will give me a chance to do the con prep it deserves and have at least one convention go well this year. I've ordered a bunch of copies of #2 to bring with me, which won't arrive til mid-June but should be there in plenty of time for the con itself.
I've told Seebs to initiate refund madness since the Studio was paying for the registration and stuff for Animazement, and that will get reinvested as well. Woooot.
I'm gonna miss you, con buddies. Have an amazing time and tell me all about what I missed, would you? :(
FAMILY:
Things are doing okay. My brother can already sort of bend one of his ankles, and they're making him do grueling rehab. He sounds tired but mellow on the phone. I might go back down there after I get everything done up here.
FINANCES:
Fucked as always. If you'd be interested in helping the Captain get his face tortured, I would be incredibly grateful. And I know for a fact that the Captain would thank you as well, if he weren't about to get his favorite chomping tooth removed. Dogs can be kind of short-sighted like that.
Donation email is muzukashiitanuki@hotmail.com, and even though I can't offer any awesome incentives with so much to send out already overdue, I will gladly compose a crappy poem, haiku or song on the topic of your choice in exchange for your donation. Leave a comment and I'll make it happen.
(In the event that the doctor, during the preliminary exam, decides that the Captain just needs a sealant or something, I will refund your donations or apply them toward other vet care as you like. The crappy poem will be yours to keep.)
DOG:
I went doctor shopping for a local veterinary hospital to have the Captain's new broken tooth removed, and found a place about 5 blocks away from the house. Doctor Barcus (who assures me he's heard plenty of comments on his name/profession combo) gave me a price breakdown for the procedure and a fax number so the old clinic can send the Captain's records ahead and save me the cost of another bloodwork (and possibly x-rays). The high end cost of the procedure is looking to be around $425, with room to expand upward if something goes wrong (like another tooth breaks in the days before the operation). I'll be taking him in at 9am on the day of the operation, and they'll give the tooth a look-over to make sure it's beyond saving. He says there is a small chance that it may not need to come out, depending on whether that's pulp I'm seeing with my untrained pet-owner eyes.
This new place uses some kind of bone graft material to fill the hole left by the tooth, which is kind of awesome. I like that they do these little things for the well-being of Mere Animals. Also, I will be finding out about insurance/payment options as well, since posters have hipped me to the usefulness of such things.
#1s:
I am about to start the final push. Once all the comics are done, I'll send off the non-combo orders first, then the ones that require additional items from the Studio to be processed. I feel pretty crappy about how my grand plan came out in the end, but I learned a lesson--never process your own comic orders! Hahaha. I'll open up special sketched issues again someday, but it'll be convention-only from now on, to spare the chaos.
CONS:
I have made peace with not being able to go to Animazement or A-Kon. You guys who offered to help me make it are awesome, but I'd be bringing you the worst of Luka and nobody wants to hang out with that. It's mainly time and energy that are lacking, so I'm going to reinvest everything I've got into Anime Expo, which will give me a chance to do the con prep it deserves and have at least one convention go well this year. I've ordered a bunch of copies of #2 to bring with me, which won't arrive til mid-June but should be there in plenty of time for the con itself.
I've told Seebs to initiate refund madness since the Studio was paying for the registration and stuff for Animazement, and that will get reinvested as well. Woooot.
I'm gonna miss you, con buddies. Have an amazing time and tell me all about what I missed, would you? :(
FAMILY:
Things are doing okay. My brother can already sort of bend one of his ankles, and they're making him do grueling rehab. He sounds tired but mellow on the phone. I might go back down there after I get everything done up here.
FINANCES:
Fucked as always. If you'd be interested in helping the Captain get his face tortured, I would be incredibly grateful. And I know for a fact that the Captain would thank you as well, if he weren't about to get his favorite chomping tooth removed. Dogs can be kind of short-sighted like that.
Donation email is muzukashiitanuki@hotmail.com, and even though I can't offer any awesome incentives with so much to send out already overdue, I will gladly compose a crappy poem, haiku or song on the topic of your choice in exchange for your donation. Leave a comment and I'll make it happen.
(In the event that the doctor, during the preliminary exam, decides that the Captain just needs a sealant or something, I will refund your donations or apply them toward other vet care as you like. The crappy poem will be yours to keep.)