"God stretches our patience to enlarge our soul."
Yesterday I had a dentist appointment at 3:30... I got there 10 minutes early, had printed the paperwork out online to fill out beforehand and I fully expected to get seen AT 3:30...
...
At 4:30, they finally, FINALLY called my name. I was peeved to have had to sit there while patients who came in after me got their names called. I did not mention these patients when my name was finally called, but I snapped "I could have come an hour later!" The assistant apologized to me and said the man before me had Alzheimer's. She then proceeded to take EIGHTEEN x-rays of my teeth. EIGHTEEN! I have a small mouth and the films she put in hurt very badly, and I could even taste blood... I was fuming but I kept my cool.
I finally got seen by the doc... I have no cavities, but the two spots I was concerned about on two back teeth, though they are not decaying, are abrasions and are probably bc I brushed them too hard over the years... and I need fillings for them so they don't get worse. Guess I got too happy with my electric toothbrush [I now use a regular one]. Anyway, I paid $15 for my appointment which is way cheap in comparison to the other dentist I was going to thats not under my insurance, but the resin fillings for the two spots are going to cost me $215, and fluoride treatment isn't covered under my insurance, so theres another $40... so I have go go back in on the 20th for my cleaning, fluoride treatment and fillings, and it's going to cost me about $250. I know its still cheaper than if I had had it done at my old dentist, but I guess I had it in my head that I would pay the $165 for the year of prepaid stuff and that would be that... I do get a lot of stuff for the $165, and the other things are cheaper, so I still come out on top, but stiiiiiiiiiiiill it sucks to spend my hard earned money on dental care.
Anyway the assistant really tried my patience. I mean really. The whole place did.
I cheered up though, class was interesting and I signed up for an event on the 22nd!! I'm going to do the UCF challenge course!
Plus, I'm down to 135 today, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
_______________________
I WILL ARRIVE IN KEY WEST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!
Today's Workouts: Turbo Jam 20-Minute Workout w/ HB, + 2 Mile Walk n' Tone with 1 lb weights AND walk belt, WOW what a burn...
Breakfast: 1 apple, 1 banana. after workout, 1 banana pancake and 1 regular pancake, with sugar-free syrup and ca 12 oz 2% chocolate milk, 2 slices apple. YUM!
Lunch: a bowl of mexican vegetable soup with a dollop of low fat sour cream
Dinner: barbeque pork on a light bun (bun has 80 calories) with sauce...
Dessert/snacks: after lunch: 60-cal extra dark chocolate stick, afternoon: ice cream sandwich. after dinner: 1 square 72% dark chocolate
Water: gotta step it up...
Daily Vitamins: check
Nightly Vitamins:
Yesterday I had a dentist appointment at 3:30... I got there 10 minutes early, had printed the paperwork out online to fill out beforehand and I fully expected to get seen AT 3:30...
...
At 4:30, they finally, FINALLY called my name. I was peeved to have had to sit there while patients who came in after me got their names called. I did not mention these patients when my name was finally called, but I snapped "I could have come an hour later!" The assistant apologized to me and said the man before me had Alzheimer's. She then proceeded to take EIGHTEEN x-rays of my teeth. EIGHTEEN! I have a small mouth and the films she put in hurt very badly, and I could even taste blood... I was fuming but I kept my cool.
I finally got seen by the doc... I have no cavities, but the two spots I was concerned about on two back teeth, though they are not decaying, are abrasions and are probably bc I brushed them too hard over the years... and I need fillings for them so they don't get worse. Guess I got too happy with my electric toothbrush [I now use a regular one]. Anyway, I paid $15 for my appointment which is way cheap in comparison to the other dentist I was going to thats not under my insurance, but the resin fillings for the two spots are going to cost me $215, and fluoride treatment isn't covered under my insurance, so theres another $40... so I have go go back in on the 20th for my cleaning, fluoride treatment and fillings, and it's going to cost me about $250. I know its still cheaper than if I had had it done at my old dentist, but I guess I had it in my head that I would pay the $165 for the year of prepaid stuff and that would be that... I do get a lot of stuff for the $165, and the other things are cheaper, so I still come out on top, but stiiiiiiiiiiiill it sucks to spend my hard earned money on dental care.
Anyway the assistant really tried my patience. I mean really. The whole place did.
I cheered up though, class was interesting and I signed up for an event on the 22nd!! I'm going to do the UCF challenge course!
Plus, I'm down to 135 today, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
_______________________
I WILL ARRIVE IN KEY WEST TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!
Today's Workouts: Turbo Jam 20-Minute Workout w/ HB, + 2 Mile Walk n' Tone with 1 lb weights AND walk belt, WOW what a burn...
Breakfast: 1 apple, 1 banana. after workout, 1 banana pancake and 1 regular pancake, with sugar-free syrup and ca 12 oz 2% chocolate milk, 2 slices apple. YUM!
Lunch: a bowl of mexican vegetable soup with a dollop of low fat sour cream
Dinner: barbeque pork on a light bun (bun has 80 calories) with sauce...
Dessert/snacks: after lunch: 60-cal extra dark chocolate stick, afternoon: ice cream sandwich. after dinner: 1 square 72% dark chocolate
Water: gotta step it up...
Daily Vitamins: check
Nightly Vitamins:
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