Health Insurance

While I'm not trying to turn this blog into a blog about health insurance, the topic has inspired my unhappiness with the health insurance that is offered in this country. As such I thought I would pass along a podcast that I recently listened to about health insurance. It's done by Dan Carlin, he's a talking head, but he's an independent thinker. It's his Common Sense podcast, episode 152 called sick politics. Enjoy...

A tooth with a root canal isn't supposed to hurt

Last week I was on a cruise to Hawaii, which you can read about on my travel blog: http://travelinggiraffe.blogspot.com, when my tooth that had the root canal started to hurt. On Thursday morning when I was having breakfast I started to notice a bit of pain in my tooth that had just had the root canal, but it wasn't enough pain to alert me to trouble. When I had lunch though it was bothering again and worse. I texted my dentist and she wasn't sure what was wrong and offered to call in a prescription for Amoxacilain. In the end I decided against that and instead took pain medication and went to the dentist this morning. He took out the temporary filling looked inside, filled the tooth and said this - either the tooth was just irratated by something and will start feeling better later today, if not then it has a secondary infection. So far it's feeling a little better, but I only ate one meal so far.

Root Canal

Turns out my tooth did in fact need a root canal, which I had done this weekend. The tooth is still quite sore. Thursday I get the root canal finished, should be quick and painless, or so they say. Then I need to get a crown on the tooth since there is a crack in the tooth.

On another front I have decided that I will wait until next year to do the palate expander when I have changed my health insurance.

Of course all of this is screwing up my vacations. I really want to go on a nice vacation in the fall, but the more my teeth cost the more I have to scale down my vacation, damn teeth!

Good news

I met with my primary care physician this week and discussed the possibility of me switching to a health insurance that he does not accept. He encouraged me that if I needed to do this for the year to go ahead with it, and that he would work with me on the costs. He didn't make any promises, but I feel as though I will still be able to be cared for by him and not have to add additional pressure to my existing financial commitments with all this dental work.