4:13pm April 6, 2012

I have a dentist appointment Monday.

They have told me if I cancel on the same day one more time, they will no longer allow me to go there. Apparently this is questionably legal given that I’ve missed them for reasons related to health problems that are impossible to predict in advance – mostly migraines. If I go in there on Monday with another migraine, I’m telling them that if I puke on them it’s their own fault for requiring me to be there. I’m more worried that I’ll have to go in with severe fatigue and will collapse or something.

Other than this they’re too good a dentist for me to go find another one. My last dentist attributed any and all pain in my mouth or jaw to me “playing with it too much”. He did that three times. Once it was an infection that later made me uncontrollably vomit when it was finally examined. Another time it was infected and impacted wisdom teeth. Another time it was the result of living long term with a pretty blatant skeletal deformity where my jaw meets my skull, visible on X-ray. In no case did he even bother examining me. I heard from someone else that she threatened to sue them when they screamed at her autistic daughter and jammed her jaw open so hard it injured her, all because she didn’t respond to a request fast enough. Basically if you were disabled that place treated you like dirt, and like everything was because you were a naughty child.

I can’t afford to go somewhere else and get treated like that again. I also literally can’t afford any other place because this place is the cheapest for stuff insurance won’t cover.

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