🚨 emergency medical fundraiser 🚨
What does every financial crisis need? A dental emergency!
My wife has been out of work for 3 weeks due to fuckery, but she finally gets to go back tomorrow! Except… a dental abscess that is only getting worse and could easily turn into a brain infection or sepsis.
We found a dentist open Sunday! It’s $50 get seen, we won’t know how much to fix it until after but we’ll be expected to pay before she can be treated.
Please boost! Payment deets below! #mutualaid
medical situation update
Alright apparently it's so bad it's too "hot" to even work on right now without risking infecting neighboring teeth lmao
she's been let loose with an antibiotic script and they're gonna call me tomorrow to set up a second appointment for once the swelling goes down, for either an extraction or a root canal depending on what we can afford
I seriously hope we can do the canal cus jess needs all her teeth for eventual surgery on her congenital jaw deformation lol
medical situation and fundraiser update
We got quite a bit so far but there’s no telling how much we need until tomorrow, but we’re aiming for a root canal so it’s gonna be Ouchie, so we’re gonna let it roll around until that phone call. If by some miracle this overfunds before then, we’ll either put it towards the other bills we’re struggling with of pass it along to funds for users of color whose posts didn’t get as much reach <3
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@hammerhead im so glad you were able to go in to see that dentist
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@magicalmilly right I'm so relieved, the pictures don't even really show how alarming that shit looks irl, and the whole area is HOT to the touch :c
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@hammerhead Looking at the photos of Jess, it looks like what I had a few years ago. I hope its just a simple root canal for her but I had to get the tooth pulled because the abscess just completely killed the tooth.
I don't want to be a bearer of bad news but I just wanted to do a PSA I guess or something.
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@baronvonjace yeah I know we’re being super uhhhhh optimistic on keeping the tooth. We really want to cus she needs all her teeth for her braces she’ll eventually need for the reconstructive jaw surgery she needs… but if it’s gotta go it’s gotta go and it’s probably almost a grand cheaper for it to just be yanked.
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We got a good $500 now so that’s either the full extraction and associated fees paid or a 30%-50% down payment on a root canal, I cannot express how relieved I am. We used a little to get smoothie making stuff and soft foods for Jess to baby herself with while we wait for the antibiotics to kick in :)
luxury bones, y’all 🦷 🤪😭