So, this is the last week in review.
I was fuming at my landlord b/c my friend Jessica was laid up at my place after being hospitalized for 3 days with a serious infection and she decided to talk a lot of smack with her in the next room and leave notes on my door like a ****ing 2nd grade kid. So I went out the other day, found a kickass apartment of about 900 square feet for 1,000 per month - and left a nice note of my own. Havn't had any notes since that time.
So Jess comes over on Saturday and doesn't look so hot - ask whats up and she's holding her mouth. Takes about 10 minutes to show and then tells me the previous monday she broke her tooth - one of her molars in this case. It looks bad, but we couldn't do anything about it until monday. So....
Sunday she comes over, and 1 side of her face is all puffed up - (oh ****). Opens her mouth, and on the side of the gum next to the tooth is an abcess the size of a walnut - so **** waiting, we head down to the ER around 10pm. She gets a massive dose of Novacain using a catheder that I might consider using on a horse - thats how thick this thing was, and they sent it right into the abcess. (if yr holding yr mouth now, thats a natural reaction).
So, after the ER - with lots of fun drugs in hand, Vicoden, Codine and Amociciline (antibiotic of some sort), we head back to my place and she crashes. The next morning, we call the oral surgeon who gives us a referal to another guy to see at 10:00am and we goto see him.
He takes some xrays and uses a video probe to go inside the mouth to display what the problem is. First thing he says, "this is very very serious - who is your dentist back in Germany? Well...fire him." Long story short, standard practice in the US for the last 60 years has been dental xrays to spot problems long before they become problems. Apparently Europe, Germany in this case never did it - b/c it takes years for an abcess to form and for the damage to become as bad - b/c it wasn't just the 1 tooth, it was 5 or 6 that would have a similar condition in 6 months to a year. Xray's would've spotted this comming years before.
The other thing he said was the infection, in the next stage would've spread to the neck and then the brain - U can guess from there. So that was a bad start to the day - so after a root canal that afternoon - a procedure which ran over $2,000.00 without dental insurance b/c she is an Aupair - and the policy she got only has a 200.00 deductable - I had a plan.
See...she is top 5 in Germany for beach vollyball, and was offered a full ride at Santa Clara university up here. And if the other problems in the mouth were not taken care of in the 6-12 month frame, it would be a repeat of that day times 5 and whatever complications arose from that.
But school does not start until August, and it is still April. Jess, isn't allowed to talk to coaches at the school, so she SMS'd the guy and he called me. Long story short, I laid out the situation, told them the seriousness and how it went undiagnosed for so long because of negligence - and the expense involved. So after a day of talks, i've got her under the blanket policy from the university when she starts in august, and they will pick up the $20,000 in treatment that it is going to require.
Hooorah! He shoots, he scores! Crowd goes wild. Thats been the last week.
Wolf
