I'm glad you're not sick anymore! Also, yay no more retainer!
May I ask what was difficult or confusing or complicated about the Clipper setup? I have heard this from a number of people, and yet I had no difficulty setting up 3 recurring items on my card, and have been happy as a clam using it since September. I am curious. Also, I did it entirely online and not with the machine at the station or by involving any well-meaning but clueless customer service folk. I was very very pleased that I COULD do that.
The complexity in my case was introduced by using the thing we have at work that lets us use pre-tax money deducted from our paychecks for transit services. The actual Clipper part was relatively straightforward, but the interface between Clipper and the pre-tax people was complex.
I did not want braces in the first place so the effects of said braces wearing off are irrelevant, and really they should only recommend I do or wear anything if not doing it is going to hurt or make it hard for me to eat.
That was pretty much my attitude towards it. I never wanted braces, my parents made me do it. And they never told me I would have to wear a retainer basically FOREVER afterward. I gave up after maybe 4 months. And my teeth started to move back and the retainer didn't fit anymore and my parents took me back to the orthodontist who told me they could make me a new retainer but they wouldn't bother if I wasn't going to wear it. And I said I wouldn't and that was the end of that. 15 years later I have noticeably crooked teeth and NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED!! My only regret is that my parents wasted all that money in the first place.
I was good about wearing my retainer for years. It still fits, so I don't think my teeth have moved much if at all, but given that the retainer's been broken for most of those years it may not have been doing what it was supposed to.
I was lucky to never have braces. My teeth may not be *perfectly* straight, but good enough. Fun fact: I still have my upper baby canines. The adult canines are up in my jaw. Sideways. They press down on my upper incisors, so I have a bit of an overbite.
I love xylitol, but I don't love poor dogs getting into it. :(
I feel for you on the chickeny pinfeathers. We always seem to have one or more parrots molting at any given time.
Boo sickness. :(
All of our shopping is done, though we still need to ship out a few things. WHEE.
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May I ask what was difficult or confusing or complicated about the Clipper setup? I have heard this from a number of people, and yet I had no difficulty setting up 3 recurring items on my card, and have been happy as a clam using it since September. I am curious. Also, I did it entirely online and not with the machine at the station or by involving any well-meaning but clueless customer service folk. I was very very pleased that I COULD do that.
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Seems to have worked, though, so yay.
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That was pretty much my attitude towards it. I never wanted braces, my parents made me do it. And they never told me I would have to wear a retainer basically FOREVER afterward. I gave up after maybe 4 months. And my teeth started to move back and the retainer didn't fit anymore and my parents took me back to the orthodontist who told me they could make me a new retainer but they wouldn't bother if I wasn't going to wear it. And I said I wouldn't and that was the end of that. 15 years later I have noticeably crooked teeth and NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED!! My only regret is that my parents wasted all that money in the first place.
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I love xylitol, but I don't love poor dogs getting into it. :(
I feel for you on the chickeny pinfeathers. We always seem to have one or more parrots molting at any given time.
Boo sickness. :(
All of our shopping is done, though we still need to ship out a few things. WHEE.
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