Surgery--Again

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Dental Care

Lutheran Medical Center Dental
150 55th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11220
718.630.6875
Sliding scale fees between $15-$50 for the first visit, proof of income needed. Must make an appointment.

New York City Technical College
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY
718.260.5074
Provides cleaning, fluoride treatment, and x-rays. All services performed by dental hygiene students and supervised by licensed dental hygienists and dentists. All services are $10.

New York University David B. Kriser Dental Center
345 East 24th Street
New York, NY 10010
212.998.9800
212.998.9810, Community Outreach
Medicaid accepted, fee charged for uninsured individuals

Thanks, bethie. I appreciate your efforts on my behalf.

The foist place is in Brooklyn. It would cost me more to get there and back than to pay the dental fees. Fact is, I have so much work to be done that even a low rate is too much.

The second place (also in Brooklyn) doesn't really offer dentistry. It offers dental hygiene. I can get this from NYU under Medicaid.

The third place is where I went--the place that will charge me $14,000.

From everything that I've read so far, Medicare will not make up the difference. However, I'll check with the NYU people when I go to my next appointment. They're up on all this stuff.

Did I mention that the lawyer sent me some possibilities. I need to investigate. They do careful and minute screening. I won't know if I qualify until I call.

How's mit du?

In a woid (hyphenated)--semi-oy.

No work.

Have to go through mountains of papers to find what I need to apply to get help with the rent. Not evicted yet.

Had a harrowing conversation with the IRS a few days ago. Haven't fully recovered yet.

Having problems with Medicaid and my prescriptions.

Seeing the throat docs on Wed. for a checkup. Always noivous.

Not doing my swallowing stuff. Feeling stoopid for not doing it and guilty, too.

Still having trouble walking. Now my knee hurts. I'll see an internist on Friday and ask that it be checked.

My therapists are going to wean me off therapy. I have mixed feelings about this.

The drain in my bathroom sink isn't draining. I poured unclogging products into the drain. Still clogged. I want this to go away. I'm too embarrassed to let anyone into my mess of an apartment to fix it.

Had dinner with my friend Sheila last night. No discussions of problems or illness. Just friend stuff. We had a great time. Plus I got mountains of leftovers.

Thinking about Bob. And feeling sad for Diane.

Aren't you glad you asked, deb. Obviously whatever else is going on in my life, my kvetching abilities are intact.

Oy veh!!!!


The IRFuckingS wants you to pay tax?!!!!!!!


What's wrong with them?


I think my keyboard is working again.

A miracle you have worked!

Now you marry a doctor, na?

Or I do? Preferably not medical...just sayin'....


Where did you eat? What leftovers did you have?

Taxes. Don't ask. The social security put me in a new category. Not going into details. I still haven't fully recovered from the conversation. So now I'm gonna get money from the government and send it back. Hardly seems worth the trouble.

Glad to hear about your keyboard. Mazel tov.

Didn't marry a doctor when I was considering the possibility of marriage. Now they're not exactly lining up. You go ahead and marry one. Then you and the Mr./Dr. can adopt me and provide me with support. Sounds like a plan.

We ate in a local diner-y kinda place introduced to me by tsar.

Good, wholesome, fresh food. I told Sheila that what I wanted (fried shrimp) didn't have leftovers and that I wanted something with leftovers. Sheila offered to get me two meals. One eat in. The other take out. I had the soup and salad last night. Tonight I'll have roast turkey with stuffing and gravy.

She's a good kid and a good friend. We had fun. I needed fun.

do you have a force cup?
if not, could you ask a neighbor -- maybe they have one...



it works best when there are only a couple of inches of water in the sink.
hold force cup with dominant hand over drain.
seal off air vent with other hand (i use duct tape if it's a bad clog).
plunge away.
remove shmutz.
repeat until water drains normal-like...

reg, That's a plunger in my neck of the woods. Plunged like crazy last night. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sigh.

when you plunged, did anything come up?
did the water go dark?

you haven't been pitching pennies in the sink for luck, have you...?

I can talk you through removing the P trap if you wanna tackle it yourself.

it's a yucky wet job.

where's Thomas at...?

Yes, reg, the water got dark and ooky.

I don't mind a yucky wet job. I tried to unscrew the thing holding the plungy thing. Too tight. I tried rubber gloves, oil, and plyers. Couldn't move the damned thing. If I could get it out, I could have access to the pipe.

Phooey.

under the sink is a curved section that is designed to be easily removed. (the "P" trap...)

that section is probably where your trouble lies, and if not, is where the snake will go in at...

I don't have plyers big enough to go around that. I'm gonna have to involve the super. I'll do a little cleaning up. I probably won't ask until after the long weekend.

Getting my throat checked on Wednesday. Always makes me noivous.

How's the drain?

Undrained. I'll get to it eventually.

Aarrggghhhhh,

Please get the super.

**** the mess!

Thinking of you Boida - do let us know how you go goil (((((((Boida)))))) x

Back from Bellevue. After a 5 hour 10 minute wait, which had me in tears a few times, I finally got to see a doctor.

And what did the doctor see? An irregularity. This doctor had never seen me before. There was no mention of an irregularity from the notes of the last doctor.

I have an appointment in a month to check the irregularity. If it's still there and unidentifiable, I will have a biopsy in mid-July.