Adventures in Dentistry

Not the best title in the world, but its the first one that stood out in my mind. Take it or leave it, I suppose. Anyways, there's not too much eventful news going on personally since I'm on break from school, so I'm working a bit more for the next two weeks. Hopefully that should be something decent to go towards all the dental payments that I may have to make in the near future. Well, from the last visit that I had, I had 8 cavities that they wanted to fill. Just call me the Cavity Creep. Now, that total is down to 7. Too bad that teeth can't repair themselves with a little extra brushing and such. Added on to those 7 cavities, I now have to get two of my wisdom teeth removed. Yaaay! *yeah the hell right!* Having any kind of surgery scares me, simply put. I wanted to cry after the doctor told me the news. Actually, I almost did, I just sat there holding back the tears.

I can deal with the bills though, like I have with other money crunches in the past, usually with tuition or books, but this is towards my health. It's nice that I do have some type of health coverage though. Since the big 22nd, I got bumped from my Mama's family health plan, and now the two of us have individual insurance plans. It was a bit tedious sitting at home reading through the booklets and discussing it with my Mama about which one to pick. I thought that I had a keeper until I went to the pharmacy to fill a new prescription, for The Patch (yes, people I'm keeping it safe, all of you should too cuz the consequences aren't fun...). Just my (dumb) luck, the patch, or any kind of contraception isn't covered by my new insurance plan! Great! So I took a few days to decide what to do, and just bit the bullet and returned a couple days later to pay full price for them, until next month. I'm considering calling my provider really soon, or just going to a clinic to see what they have to say. It's not fair that healthcare can't cover the important things that matter to people and their livelihood. Thank you George W.!!! (that's why I'm gonna vote for Kerry on 11/2 anyways...) Back to the dental issues though, I just have to pay for it piece by piece and get all that work over with. I really need a good job with some benefits, now more than ever, just to be sure that everything medical is covered or partially covered, at the least.

Time at work is easing away. Thank goodness, because I'm ready to get back into my new read: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For? It's a part of my goal to become a bit more religious and spiritual. I wasn't brought up in the church as a child, but my parents have taught me things about God, and the bible with their perspective mixed in (which made the lessons more true to life and understandable).
It takes 40 days to read, by suggestion of the author, so that every chapter can be savored and understood to the fullest extent. I'm just on chapter three, well that's the one that I'll be reading after I leave work. Each day there is a point to remember, a quote from the bible to memorize, and a question to consider. I'm thinking about making the 40 questions into a journal of its own. I wonder if anyone is doing that already; its worth doing a search for. A friend that I went to Montreal with told me about the book, and that's what intrigued me to buy it. I'm hoping this weekend to go back to Sam's Club and get the accompanying journal too. :)