Bring on 2010......

I say this as a half jest, as, though i know we still have five weeks left of 2009, I'd like to skip them.

As most of you know, I have never been exactly fond of hospitals or doctors, and, luckily, have always been pretty healthy and thereby able to avoid them. However, I also have genetics, and got the blessing of discovering the joys of amelogenesis imperfecta right around my 28th birthday or so. It rapidly accelerated to the point where surgery has become necessary, and, from talking to the doctors I have seen, there was not a thing I could have done either way once it started, since there is no known reversal treatment.

So, now that I'm unemployed, I have the time to get this fixed, and I'm going to. Most of you already know about the condition itself, since you know ME, but instead of sending out a bunch of emails, this is easiest for me.

I went to do my first consultation on the 9th with Dr Stein, who confirmed there was no kind of reversal action that could be taken, and he gave me the information of a good surgeon, Dr. Moffett, to get a consultation and cost estimate done.

So i saw Dr. Moffett this morning, and the consultation, including xrays, took about two hours, or, just enough time for the monsoon to start so that it took 45min to drive the 9 miles home, and of course I had to go through construction to get there, lol.

Dr. Moffett described the procedure to me in entirely too much detail, which I will spare you most of, except to state that, basically, what i am getting done is some surgical removal, an aveoloplasty and frenulectomy, as well as a, if you will, sanding down of bone spars to ease discomfort and allow the prosthetics I will be getting to fit better.

It looks like the operation itself is going to last about three hours, and I'm probably going to draft Dad into driving me, since after the surgery I have been informed I will be hella-loopy for the rest of the day, possibly two. (Yes, Hella-Loopy is the technical term. It means swimming in pain medication).

I'm working on the financing portion now, because my medical insurance went with the job, because the castings are $1600, and the operation including anesthesia around $7100. Anyone know a good bookie? lol. But I figure I will be having the procedure done around the early to middle part of December.

Anyways, I'm sure I'll be dropping updates as I learn them.

For now, I'm off to go kill shit in my bday present from Mouse, the XBox360 Modern Warfare....damn addictive as hell.....

And, once again, thanks for all the birthday wishes and for all of those who have stood by me.
To all the others, well.......