Today wasn't a good day

[simplyn2deep]

Yesterday morning/afternoon I started to have a toothache. As the night went on, it got to the point where I could chew on the other side of my mouth because that was putting pressure on the side that hurts.

Then, holy crap, overnight, I was up every 3 hours it seemed because of the pain. I was restless to say the least.

I'm pretty certain that the toothache is really an infection of a broken tooth I need to have removed.

I thought I'd be able to go to the dentist today because on their website they have that they're open on the weekends. However when I called, the recording said they weren't open. I don't know if that was for today only or the weekend in general. But I guess it doesn't matter in the long run. This dentist charges like $275 for a damn extraction! No telling if it would be more than that since it's broken/just the root or whatever. I was going to ask my mom if she could cover it until I got my check in November, but she has her own medical bills to deal with now that she's going to the dr weekly for shots and there's an out-of-pocket expense for it.

In somewhat other related news, I heard on the news a few days ago about the open enrollment period for Cover California or something like that. Getting uninsured people health insurance at low to no cost. I put in my information to see what I would qualify for and they say according to my income, I might qualify for medi-cal. Hmm okay. I go to the medi-cal site and they want all this information about my parents (since I live with them) that I don't have...but as it looks, I might qualify for that. I need to speak with an actual person to see if I really need to give my parents income information since they already have health insurance. I also don't know if medi-cal has dental because that's what I really need at this point.

Time to find something to eat and fold up my clothes.

Comments

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

Deferring as always, for everything.

If they give me a penalty, I don't know where they expect me to get the money from. I'll be out of a job December 31st and the only money I'll have are 2 financial aid checks and a "love" gift from the church

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

Oy.

And your siblings aren't really an option either, right? I guess you could always start one of those GoFundMe campaigns? :\

[simplyn2deep.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't really feel comfortable doing that - asking my siblings or the GoFundMe campaign.

I'm going to have to double my efforts in applying to jobs - going to job fairs when I'm not in class.

[dontelltheelf.livejournal.com]

I know, but as a last resort at least those options are available. It'd suck, but you gotta do what you gotta do.