You’re Happy, But I’m Not
I need jaw surgery. I don’t know if I’ve ever brought that up on here or not, but it’s something that I need. I mean, I SERIOUSLY NEED it! We’re not talking about something for cosmetic reasons. This is for medical reasons. I have a crossbite and an underbite. It’s fixable with braces and jaw surgery. Before I pay anything to get braces, though, I’m supposed to find out if I can have the surgery. Well, in order to find out that I can have the surgery, I have to have 2 workups done by the orthodontist and by the maxillofacial surgeon. I don’t think my mouth has changed in 8 years since they did the last one, except that I no longer have wisdom teeth. But in order to do the workups, I have to come up with the money to pay for them since neither doctor accepts Medicaid, and even if they did, I’m too old for Medicaid to pay anything dental. (Medicare still may cover some of the costs, if they choose to.) I have trouble eating, big surprise, I know since I’m so big, but it’s true. If you stick a slice of ham, no matter the thickness/thinness, I can’t chew it without getting my hands ahold of the piece of meat and pulling it out of my mouth to simulate the action that my front teeth are supposed to take when I chew. Now, this has become normal for me at family gatherings and when I’m making a ham sandwich, but it is nonetheless very annoying and embarrassing. My mom told me it’ll be a month before she’ll know if I can even schedule an appointment to have a workup done because she doesn’t know if I can do my own finances. (Yes, for those of you who have been paying attention for a long time, my debit card and checkbook are now being taken care of by me. I guess that she’s finally over the great eBay debacle of 05 or 06.) She does not seem to understand that my mouth HURTS every day all day. My teeth look okay from someone looking straight at me, but if you look at an xray of my mouth, you can see that my teeth point straight out instead of downward/upward. I am always having to take something for my jaw pain or, in some cases, having to ignore it because I’ve taken too much that day or I’ve run out of Percogesic and we can’t just run to the pharmacy and get me anymore. My gums are bright red because of the fact that so much strain is put on my mouth. This leads to dentists and hygienists telling me that I don’t brush my teeth or floss them enough because it is so very evident that I have gum disease. I may have it, but I’ve had it since my first tooth came in. I probably won’t get to have the workup until after I turn 25, in less than 6 months (yes, the thing up at the top says 23, but I was too lazy to change it 6 months ago). Why THAT long? Well, I had an idea that I would have a birthday party, and I’m not changing my mind. You only turn 25 once and I am determined to make mine not suck, even if it does mean that I am going to have to live with pain for another 6 months. I mean, I’ve known that I needed this surgery for about 13 or 14 years now, I’m sure I can try to live, however painfully, for another 6 months.
I get to hang out with my friends tonight after Institute. Yay! Normally we go eat somewhere afterwards, but tonight we’re going to go watch a football game and possibly eat while watching it. That should be interesting. I’m not really a football fan, but I am a fan of hanging out with nice people, so I can definitely do that.
I’m working on two websites other than this one right now. No, my manic streak has not started. I haven’t been manic in a LONG time. I just decided to start two projects that had good intentions behind them. One is for the YSAs of the LDS church to add pictures of YSA stuff to. It’s at ysaphotos.com. The other is a photo album of my family and our lives. It’s at morrisfamilyphotos.net. I’m still adding photos to them both, especially mfp.
I wish it was tomorrow already so that I could place an order for clothes. I know my mom has placed some for me in the past week from other places, but I found some really cute shirts, and since it is no longer my responsibility to pay for all the meals that this family eats, I can now spend my money on stuff for me. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, why not spend the money on your workup? Well, let me tell you why, it’s because I only get a few hundred dollars a month and quite frankly, that ain’t gonna cover 2 workups.
Okay, so I’ve updated, which I really need to do more often, so thank you, Ranee, for telling me to update. And for those of you who wondered, the glasses that I referred to wearing for so many years are the SAME prescription that was done in 1999. They worked well until recently, and my eyes haven’t really changed all that much. I got lucky that while we had no cash flow, I didn’t get a lot worse. As for the replacement glasses, they have not yet been finished as the wonderful ones they made me did not pass initial inspection. If they had, I would be wearing them right now, instead of going without any. (I don’t usually wear my old ones anymore because they are a bit blurry.)
Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, I’m planning on closing Celestial and Taboo. I don’t really want to sell them to anyone, as they’re both my babies. I would just like for them to close peacefully. I will still keep this site open. Even if the name of it is silly to some. (It still means a lot to me.)
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