Mother Nature can be a real bitch sometimes:
Quoted cost of extraction: $80.00
Actual cost of Extraction: $150.00
Cost of Ibuprofen and medicated mouth rinse: $21.00
Cost of follow up visit: $80.00
Cost of Tylenol #3, Tea Tree Oil, Clove Oil for Pain Relief, and Natural Toothpaste (the Sodium Lauryl Sulfates in regular toothpaste irritates cankers and other mouth sores. It's actually classed as an "irritant to skin, eyes and mucous membranes," yet we have it in our soaps, shampoos and toothpastes? Go figure! ): $37.00
Cost of Gas to get Tea Tree Oil and Clove Oil(because the natural food store in Summerside closed and you have to go to Charlottetown now): $20.00
Cost of Gas to go to Hospital when things get really bad: $10.00
Cost of Antibiotics and Toradol(more pain killers): $53.00
Cost of Meal Replacement Drinks (because Spaghetti in a blender isn't really all that great unless you're 8 months old, and it still hurts way too much to eat it that way): $14.00
Total Cost of "80.00" extraction so far (I have to go back again tomorrow if I'm still not any better): $385.00
Starting my period during all this: F*@#ing PRICELESS !!
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- Amy
- Prince Edward Island, Canada
- I'm a 30-something Mama to 3 cool and quirky kids: Terran 18, Madeline 14, and Connor 8. We all live in a hundred year old Four-Square in a constant cloud of renovation dust. We have a dog named Beckham. If I get my way, we'll soon be adding chickens and a pig to our backyard gang. I'm a home renovation junkee, book worm, yoga instructor, chocolate addict, love all things natural and I have a thing for the beach. When I'm not doing laundry or feeding kids, I'm usually here reading blogs, avoiding the dishes....
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Very funny!!
Living with a woman in extreme pain on her period...PRICELESS!!
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This is awful for you, but it is one of those horribly funny stories. Amazing just how far "$80" goes these days.
The updated cost? $442.00. Who woulda thought $80 could do all that? There have been two more visits to the dentist since this post was written, with my own dentist in the city. He wouldn't have scraped the socket, apparently. He thinks this may be what has triggered the infection in the socket and around the jawbone. He also packed it again with Alvogyl, which we found out two excruciating days later (yesterday) that I am allergic to. Hence the pain, the cankers, the burning, and failure to heal. We also discivered that the nerve is inflamed, causing the pain along my jawbone. Fun stuff!!
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