Not Working Out
It's funny how a pleasant day could turn on you so quickly.
A warm, sunny, pretty Friday. I have to get a tooth drilled and a new filling put in to replace a broken one, but those are quibbles.
Then at the dental office, I'm told I need a root canal on a tooth on the lower right side and lower left side, even though the varying dentists have been on and off about me needing that. The teeth don't currently hurt me but I'm told that they're almost all filling these days and down close to the nerve so it's a worry. We do have a Medicaid approval for a root canal on the right from one of the prior times but it expires in July. I ask if getting a post and crown require another approval that would take more time but nobody at the office knows.
However, for some reason, nobody at this dental practice would do a root canal on the left tooth for someone on Medicaid, and Medicaid might not even approve any work for a back tooth aside from pulling it out with no replacement. Because poor people don't need teeth, right? But the Bayside office will not work on my left tooth, no, not ever. I should try their Port Washington office, which is 19 miles from my house. I get upset about how long a drive that would be and far outside the areas I usually travel it is but that turns out to be premature because when I call the Port Washington office after I get home I'm told they won't take any new patients. ~sad trombone noise~ And it's 5 p.m. on a Friday so that's as far as I'll get on this issue today.
I have an appointment for the right side root canal for June 4, but when I call the dental office to ask wtf I should do about the left one next I'll try to get someone on the phone who can assure me that the approval they have won't just leave me with a hole on the right instead of a serviceable tooth.
The mass exodus from accepting Medicaid for various things continues. One of the urgent care places I'd gone to now refuses to take Medicaid even as a secondary insurance as well.
I could call Medicaid looking for a dentist but my experience with that is that I'll get a few wrong numbers and many dentists who don't or no longer accept Medicaid.
Then my car made some really strange noises while on, and occasionally a strange noise as it was turned off. It didn't make that noise for the mechanic when I brought it there, but I recorded them on my phone and let the mechanic listen. Again, this came too late in the day for anything to be done today, but my mechanic is keeping the Elantra overnight to get started on in the morning.
All of this happened from about 2:30 p.m. through 5 p.m. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
comments at Dreamwidth.
A warm, sunny, pretty Friday. I have to get a tooth drilled and a new filling put in to replace a broken one, but those are quibbles.
Then at the dental office, I'm told I need a root canal on a tooth on the lower right side and lower left side, even though the varying dentists have been on and off about me needing that. The teeth don't currently hurt me but I'm told that they're almost all filling these days and down close to the nerve so it's a worry. We do have a Medicaid approval for a root canal on the right from one of the prior times but it expires in July. I ask if getting a post and crown require another approval that would take more time but nobody at the office knows.
However, for some reason, nobody at this dental practice would do a root canal on the left tooth for someone on Medicaid, and Medicaid might not even approve any work for a back tooth aside from pulling it out with no replacement. Because poor people don't need teeth, right? But the Bayside office will not work on my left tooth, no, not ever. I should try their Port Washington office, which is 19 miles from my house. I get upset about how long a drive that would be and far outside the areas I usually travel it is but that turns out to be premature because when I call the Port Washington office after I get home I'm told they won't take any new patients. ~sad trombone noise~ And it's 5 p.m. on a Friday so that's as far as I'll get on this issue today.
I have an appointment for the right side root canal for June 4, but when I call the dental office to ask wtf I should do about the left one next I'll try to get someone on the phone who can assure me that the approval they have won't just leave me with a hole on the right instead of a serviceable tooth.
The mass exodus from accepting Medicaid for various things continues. One of the urgent care places I'd gone to now refuses to take Medicaid even as a secondary insurance as well.
I could call Medicaid looking for a dentist but my experience with that is that I'll get a few wrong numbers and many dentists who don't or no longer accept Medicaid.
Then my car made some really strange noises while on, and occasionally a strange noise as it was turned off. It didn't make that noise for the mechanic when I brought it there, but I recorded them on my phone and let the mechanic listen. Again, this came too late in the day for anything to be done today, but my mechanic is keeping the Elantra overnight to get started on in the morning.
All of this happened from about 2:30 p.m. through 5 p.m. You can comment here or at the Dreamwidth crosspost.
comments at Dreamwidth.