New Layout & Dental Issues

It’s been a long time coming and I’m relieved to finally have it up. I’m still working on a few bugs and getting everything sorted, so if you notice any errors, please let me know! I’ve spent a good amount of time on it and I haven’t even validated it yet, and I don’t even want to know what it looks like in Internet Explorer.

Honestly I think everyone should just stop catering to IE all together. The shitty part is that those of us who design and develop for a living kind of have to, because unfortunately it does hold the majority of the market share. People need to be educated on the awesomeness that is modern browser availability and ease of use man.

I’m also still suffering through an infection in one of my back molars, which let me tell you, feels worse than if someone were to just rip the fucking thing out without anesthesia. Working on this layout has been one of the only methods to distract me from it the past two days, and one dose of Vicodin has stopped working all together, so I’ve had to start taking two at a time. I’ll probably end up with cirrhosis of the liver, and I’m not even a goddamn alcoholic. Either way, I’m going to make an appointment tomorrow to have the fucker either yanked out or root canaled (I think I just made that word up but honestly I’m too high to care,) neither experience I’m particularly looking forward to.

I am so tired of having all of these issues with my teeth. If anyone else has had an abscess, or a severe toothache which was bad enough to impede on basic daily function, then imagine going through that at least 3 or 4 times a year. My teeth are that bad. It mostly has to do with my genetics, my mother, father and both grandparents both have soft enamel, and I’m blessed with this wonderful fucking deficiency that makes my teeth rot out of my skull despite brushing three times a day and using copious amounts of mouth wash. It’s something that really bothers me and that I’m really self conscious about, and while I’ve been lucky enough to have several implants in the front to repair the damage caused by the deficiency, I still need a lot more work done. Painful, expensive and time consuming work. It’s really discouraging and depressing because I try so hard to take care of them, but they continue to get worse. Besides being stupid painful, it also has a handful of other risks if left untreated, including heart attack, stroke, myocarditis which can lead to advanced cardiomyopathy, and a whole grocery list of serious complications. So needless to say, it has to be taken care of.

I’m also going to book a consultation with Clear Choice Dental, who specialize in dental implants. Dental implants are basically titanium rods that are inserted into your jawbone, and temporary teeth are placed on them until the rods fuse with your jawbone. Permanent ones are added later. I had no fucking idea how CRAZY expensive they are, and my dental insurance only covers $1500 worth of work per year. Which would be fine if I were a normal person with healthy teeth and no deficiency, but unfortunately this isn’t the case. I honestly don’t care how much it costs, I’ll do anything in order to fix this bullshit and never feel the searing pain of a toothache ever again. Apparently now in dental science they can give you a full set of dental implants in one visit. Isn’t that insane?

It all started when I was about 16, that’s when the shit really hit the fan. I had an abscess in my front tooth, and I have honestly never been through anything that excruciating in my entire collective memory of life. It’s been compared to the pain of child birth, which if any of you have had one, is no surprise.

So, while I wallow in misery until I can be booked for a dentist appointment, I expect to be high on prescription pain killers for the good majority of the time, so don’t expect much out of me until then. Wish me luck.