Forum Settings
       
1 2 Next »
Reply To Thread

Free stuff (like healthcare)Follow

#27 Jul 24 2009 at 6:51 AM Rating: Good
Mindel wrote:
In US: You call every dentist within reasonable driving distance, then every dentist within unreasonable driving distance. This proves pointless, because they don't work weekends, and if they did, they'd be booked anyway. You get an appointment for next Wednesday, swallow a bottle of advil, and pray for death. Saturday morning you realize you cannot bear it a moment longer, make your way to an ER or Urgent Care clinic where, after sitting in a cramped, cold waiting room amongst a veritable menagerie of human decay and disease, you're seen by doctor who can't fix your @#%^ing teeth anyway but gives you a script for vicodin. You fill it, go home, and crawl in to a narcotic coma. Tuesday morning you call 911 because you can't feel your face. You're rushed to the hospital where it's discovered you have a massive abscess which has burst in to your brain. You die and your next of kin receives a stack of medical bills likely totaling more than your average annual salary.


I started getting ridiculously painful tooth ache on the 23rd December at eleven at night. I tried to tough it out by crying like a little girl, until my girlfriend got tired of hearing me sob. So we went to the local hospital's ER, and waited for about 30 minutes, until the on-call dentist in the ER was free to see me. He told me to get a dentist appointment soon, did a clean-up, and prescribed me some kick-*** painkillers. It cost me nothing, and took an hour in total. I was back home and sleeping like a baby by 1 in the morning.
____________________________
My politics blog and stuff - Refractory
#28 Jul 24 2009 at 6:53 AM Rating: Decent
***
3,229 posts
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
Mindel wrote:
In US: You call every dentist within reasonable driving distance, then every dentist within unreasonable driving distance. This proves pointless, because they don't work weekends, and if they did, they'd be booked anyway. You get an appointment for next Wednesday, swallow a bottle of advil, and pray for death. Saturday morning you realize you cannot bear it a moment longer, make your way to an ER or Urgent Care clinic where, after sitting in a cramped, cold waiting room amongst a veritable menagerie of human decay and disease, you're seen by doctor who can't fix your @#%^ing teeth anyway but gives you a script for vicodin. You fill it, go home, and crawl in to a narcotic coma. Tuesday morning you call 911 because you can't feel your face. You're rushed to the hospital where it's discovered you have a massive abscess which has burst in to your brain. You die and your next of kin receives a stack of medical bills likely totaling more than your average annual salary.


I started getting ridiculously painful tooth ache on the 23rd December at eleven at night. I tried to tough it out by crying like a little girl, until my girlfriend got tired of hearing me sob. So we went to the local hospital's ER, and waited for about 30 minutes, until the on-call dentist in the ER was free to see me. He told me to get a dentist appointment soon, did a clean-up, and prescribed me some kick-*** painkillers. It cost me nothing, and took an hour in total. I was back home and sleeping like a baby by 1 in the morning.


I know how you feel Red, I've only had chronic toothache the once and once was enough. Mindel describes it perfectly in her unique, wonderful way.

In fact I lost a tooth playing rugby and it was far less painful.
#29 Jul 24 2009 at 7:14 AM Rating: Good
***
3,909 posts
Goggy wrote:
In fact I lost a tooth playing rugby and it was far less painful.


They have these things called mouthguards? They tell you to wear them for a reason.

I stopped playing rugby once I saw what it did to your body by middle age. Guys with no front teeth, nose so broken they looked flat, plastic kneecaps...one dude had lost a ******* eye. It was badass though, since he wore an eyepatch onto the field. People were all like "Argh! A pirate snuck onto the rugby field!" and he was like "Yarr!" and then he'd ******* destroy them. Best goddamn flanker the club had.

Anyway, um...dental hygiene. Nine years? And you kiss your mother with that mouth? It must smell like the crotch of a ******* week-dead badger with VD.
#30 Jul 24 2009 at 7:24 AM Rating: Good
zepoodle wrote:
Goggy wrote:
In fact I lost a tooth playing rugby and it was far less painful.


They have these things called mouthguards? They tell you to wear them for a reason.

I stopped playing rugby once I saw what it did to your body by middle age. Guys with no front teeth, nose so broken they looked flat, plastic kneecaps...one dude had lost a @#%^ing eye. It was badass though, since he wore an eyepatch onto the field. People were all like "Argh! A pirate snuck onto the rugby field!" and he was like "Yarr!" and then he'd @#%^ing destroy them. Best goddamn flanker the club had.

Anyway, um...dental hygiene. Nine years? And you kiss your mother with that mouth? It must smell like the crotch of a @#%^ing week-dead badger with VD.


How can you play rugby without 3D vision?
____________________________
My politics blog and stuff - Refractory
#31 Jul 24 2009 at 8:13 AM Rating: Decent
***
3,229 posts
zepoodle wrote:
Goggy wrote:
In fact I lost a tooth playing rugby and it was far less painful.


They have these things called mouthguards? They tell you to wear them for a reason.

I stopped playing rugby once I saw what it did to your body by middle age. Guys with no front teeth, nose so broken they looked flat, plastic kneecaps...one dude had lost a @#%^ing eye. It was badass though, since he wore an eyepatch onto the field. People were all like "Argh! A pirate snuck onto the rugby field!" and he was like "Yarr!" and then he'd @#%^ing destroy them. Best goddamn flanker the club had.

Anyway, um...dental hygiene. Nine years? And you kiss your mother with that mouth? It must smell like the crotch of a @#%^ing week-dead badger with VD.


Unfortunately I have a low gag threshold and used to cut the molar section back, kind of defeated the object.
#32 Jul 24 2009 at 8:15 AM Rating: Excellent
***
3,909 posts
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
How can you play rugby without 3D vision?


By being a fucking pirate.
#33 Jul 24 2009 at 8:20 AM Rating: Excellent
zepoodle wrote:
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
How can you play rugby without 3D vision?


By being a fucking pirate.


Smiley: thumbsup
____________________________
My politics blog and stuff - Refractory
#34 Jul 24 2009 at 8:22 AM Rating: Good
***
3,909 posts
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
zepoodle wrote:
RedPhoenixxx wrote:
How can you play rugby without 3D vision?


By being a fucking pirate.


Smiley: thumbsup


His job was mostly tackling people, so he was never really relied on to catch the ball.
1 2 Next »
Reply To Thread

Colors Smileys Quote OriginalQuote Checked Help

 

Recent Visitors: 224 All times are in CST
Anonymous Guests (224)