🏷️ health

I ended up going to the orthodontist Dr. MacDonald over on sheridan dr near elmwood today because Dr. McClurr over on West Utica said I needed braces when I went to him for a checkup two weeks ago.



The whole morning started out bad because the car was broken and at the shop. I ended up taking a cab which costs $20 one way. I guess I really should have taken the bus, as I am right now on the way home. It is snowing like crazy by the way.

Did you know the bus doesn't give change. How hard would it be to implement that?

So back to the orthodontist. What a waste of my freakin day. They pretty much just wanted to do cosmetic work on the teeth. My insurance won't cover it because its medically unnecessary and because I am over 19. So the real question is why did the dentist send me here if its not medically necessary?

I feel like I got caught up in some sort of referal scam.

Look at my photographs and what they are talking about changing. It is all cosmetic and costs an astounding $4200.

I am so angry right now. I fucking hate doctors and their stupid scams.





He said my tooth grinding and clenching is probably caused from job stress.

I am like 10 posts behind I have collected a whole lot of media including an extended photoshoot of @lilho but I got so caught up in work and evrything else I never posted it. Then I got sick.

I first noticed my nose just kept dripping but I felt otherwise fine, then I had fever and sore throat and coughing and stomach sickness.


I really hope no one at Roswell got my germs because I ate in he cafeteria yesterday.



It's so sad when you see the people with face masks and you know how sick they must be.



I found this wig on the way to work the other day. I wonder what it's story is. At first I thought maybe there was a body attached but there wasn't enough space in the leaves.



@hodown sent m the largest box of frozen food from the omaha company that I hve ever seen. Steaks, burger, twice baked potatoes, bacon wraped steak, and crAb stuffed sole. Yum. It was so nice. Unfortunately, it came to roswell and I don't have an oven. I think this will be the impetus to buy the oven. It was weird to pick food up in refrigerated medical shipping. So I decided to run it home. When I got home I realized my wallet was missing and I couldn't get in the house. I had to have had it when I left because I need it to scan out of Roswell.

I knew @matthew was home so I rang the bell like 5000 times but he couldn't here it from the attic. So I started to panic. Leave the food and it will get stolen. Forget about the wallet and it will get stolen. I decided to leave the food in the back but by the time I got back up from matt was there and I brought the food in. Apparently, five minutes I too long for a wallet on main street. It was gone when I got back.

I ran up and down my path from work to home twice. Probably, how I got sick but the wLlet was nowhere. Then today I got it back in the mall sans cash which is fine with me. Thanks whoever returned it.

All the intense couch side laptop use is making the top of my spine crooked and making me shorter. I really need t get this sorted out as soon as possible as it is the source of all my headaches. I realize that the first step is refusing to work on the laptop when not sitting at a desk. I am just too tall to sit on the couch and compute. The other thing that helps is going to the gym. Something that I do not do enough of anymore. I have pretty much gone once in the last 3 months because @terry refuses to go with me.

Does anyone know of a good chiropracter that could help me with the spine situation? I am pretty much in serious pain at this point.

On another note, I took today off because of the massive headache I have rearding this issue and thought that it would be a great day to deal with healthcare issues. Considering, I have had health insurance for over a year now, it is quite ridiculous I haven't used it yet.

I scheduled my first dentist appointment since 1998 at The Craig Mueller dentist office down the street from me on linwood. It is the same place that Nameless Bitch went to to have her tooth extracted. I am hoping there will be no extraction required on my visit.



In 1997 I had all my metal fillings (12 of them) removed and replaced with porcelin ones. I had to go to canada to have this done because the american dentist refused to take them out.

I had them removed because they are supposed to be bad for you.

They told me those ones had a lifespan of only 5-10 years so it seems like it has to be time to have them fixed. It was so nice to never have that shocking feeling when metal got in your mouth that used to happen all the time when I had the amalgam fillings.

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Chris came thru his surgery surprisingly well, however only time will tell what effect the chemo and radiation will have on the remainder of the tumor still in his skull...the doctors could not remove the entire tumor, because it would have adversely affected his speech and comprehenson skills. Chris is tolerating the chemo very well (not surprising given all the chemicals he injested over the years...heh heh)...Average life expectancy for his agressive cancer is usually 18-36 months, however his doctors are optimistic about his chances to survive and thrive. We continue to keep hope alive!

One scary fact I learned the other day...one chemo pill costs over $200 dollars! Chris needs many in order to beat this....Medicaid has been helpful, but it doesn't cover it all and does not begin to cover all the costs for the specialists that Chris has on his side.

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suggested "donation" is only $5....the flyer is done and about town tonight.

I wonder if he is treated by the group over at

I am still sick today. I cannot believe it. I tried for once to not use echinacea. Usually my cold only last like 3 days. Well this time it is going on 7 days. Next time I am sure to use it.

I am so sick of having my throat hurt and coughing. I just hope that my sinuses are better by the time I go to get on the plane for San Francisco on Monday. One time I flew with stuffed sinuses and I distinctly remember thinking my eyes were going to pop of out of my face. I was so extremely painful and I actually remember holding my eye into my face because of the pressure. It was the first time I flew on a plane to south carolina in 1995.

I am sick again. It seems that october and february really do get me every year. @paul #3907

Perhaps, I should just buy a bubble for these months.



At first I thought I was getting depressed - which I just about never am and would have no real excuse for. Then as the day went on I realized I was getting sick. It makes me wonder if lots of people's depression is based on some sort of physical unhealthiness.

At least I had a good night programming last night. I still have lots more code cleanup to do today.

I have been sick to my stomach pretty much since camping at Vermont's Townshend @paul #4618 I have a feeling that it all goes back to this one drunken night when I filled up a water jug with creek water to put out a fire and then accidentally drank out of it the next morning.

My hands also had a horrible reaction to paint thinner and exposure to too much latex which I am becomming alergic too. They look disgusting. Am I falling apart?

I realized I have misplaced my inhaler. Today I have to be with some cats. This is a nightmare combination. The employee clinic at Roswell insisted that I get a TB shot.





The computer clears the records every year, so even though I got the shot 5 months ago, I need one again. I thought this, could work out maybe they can get me an inhaler. However, they can't. I would need to talk with my primary care physician, which I don't have yet. I should probably just go back after the cat experience and require oxygen instead, argh!

Apparently i have good blood pressure still even on my high protein diet.

So my toe looks worse than ever although it feels much better. Unfortunately, I have one more month before my health insurance starts.
Can someone tell me (maybe you know Jenks) if it is normal for a toe to start looking worse, even if it begins to feel a little better. It is making walking tricky because it is fatter than the other toes now and gets in the way.



I just want to be able to dance again.

Today was a better day at work. I built lots of cool stuff.

I found out the reason that code looked so messed up is not just that the users were using an online wysiwyg editor but that they were pasting into it from word. What a nightmare this is gonna be.

I smashed my toe the other night on a toolbox in the middle of the kitchen floor in the dark. Yesterday, I could barely walk. Today it feels a little better but its bruised and swollen and I can't move it much.
I hope this isn't the beginning of a lifelong "bad" toe.