Kidney Disease

So I know this is a far off topic from braces but I had kidney stones in 2009 had surgery the surgeon messed up and obstructed my kidney with a stone instead of blasting it then had surgery 6 months later and it was fixed I been fine till about a couple of weeks ago i started experiencing bad pains and I was vomiting a lot recently and my urine is dicolored and I havent been peeing nad I have literally been drinking a lot and the pain is soooooooooooooo bad it's like I want to call out of work every day but I don't because I want to show that I am a good worker. Which I love working and I would not want to give that up, but this pain and sympotoms have been really bad lately worse than the fist time where my kidney inflated andd stopped working. I cannot stand the pain *cries*

My own Braces kit.

Personal Orthodonture Care items, a photo by Jay Medeiros on Flickr.

I made it a point to go out to the drugstores Rite Aid and CVS to buy these, I figure in case I forget to ask my orthodontist or she doesn't give things out, I'd have my own. I like to have these things bought ahead of time because like I said, I don't know when my orthodontist is putting on the top row of braces, could be the 8th could be the 22nd I don't know. I plan on going out and also buying more wax and more floss threaders as well as a plastic timer because mine here is wooden and glass and It has sentimental value to me and would probably only use it at home. Mainly I am looking for those cool/special Braces v shaped bristle travel brushes. Maybe I can find some at Walgreens tomorrow, if my mom will take me.

Top Row of Braces in Combo with Herbst Appliance...Damon

Hey just found out last week that I will be getting braces, just the top row on with my herbst appliance. I am not sure whether I am getting that put on the 8th or the 22nd of September. It's safe to say I just assume all of it by the 22nd; the herbst appliance and the top row of braces. I also found out I will be getting the Damon Braces. These are self ligtating braces. I live quite a ways from my orthodontist's office so to make it convenient for me, I go every 8 weeks. There are no colored ligature ties on my braces, for greater comfort and faster results. Normally my case would include 3 years my actually treatment time will be 30 months or 2.5 years. I am really excited it is not coming fast enough.

Next Orthodontic Appointments Scheduled

So I got home on August 11th. So I called asking for the orthodontist, not really sure why but I said to the receptionist: Is the orthodontist available? If not thats ok maybe you could help me. She said no she's not but what can I do you for? I stated how I got may opinions on the surgery and me and the current surgeon feel its best that I just go  ahead with the braces. She asked so are we still doing the applaince? I said yup, herbst appliance it is. She said ok that gets installed in four visits. So she looked in her book and said September the 6th I said can I have a pretty late one so that I can leave class and actually attend class that day? she said yup not a problem hows 4pm? I said yup that's good and what's going to be happening at that appointment? She said: Well the one is spacers will be put in, now you will need to come back on the 8th at 10 am....... for banding. I said Ok, She said now you're going to need to come in on the 20th for more spacing and then again on the 22nd for the rest of the appliance to be installed and that's about it. I said Oh would that be at 4pm and 10am again? She said Yes. I said, So I'm guessing I'd have that in for a year and do you know about the braces? She said I'm not really sure about anything I jsut know you're getting your appliace and not rally sure for how long we havent discussed that yet. I said ok thank you very much and have a great day. Then we hung up.

Second Opinion Visit

So my parents and I went to Waltham MA to the Children's Hospital. The reason why I was able to go beoing in almost twenty is that I been going there since I was born for various things. A while back my orthodontist had lunch with her friend who is an oral surgeon. She told her about me and the oral surgeon said she'd take a look at me. So as you know my appointment was on August 11th 2011 at 8am. I woke up at 4am and left at 5am since I live pretty far from Waltham. We arrived early and I went and took photos of the pretty scenery and duvcks by the end of the Charles River. It was time to go and we arrived early to the surgeons office to fill things out. Then I paid my copay via my card with money on it. I sat down and filled it out got my reciept and handed in the papers. They called me in and this time I thought it would be very nice to have my parents in the room since they already came in the rooma t the last one and I wanted them to see what this one had to say, they did not need to be in the room but i invited them. Already this was a much nicer atmosphere. Of course I love horses and the room I was in had horses so I took pictures and dad told me to take a picture of my x ray and of course I did the panoramic one. So I sat back in the chair and this really nice young woman is wearing this yellow sterile gown and her mask is on her ears but tucked under her chin. So she takes a look at my files and actually reads not jsut one but both of them and the other one didnt even acknowledge that I had stuff from my orthodontist. She took out the study models and looked at them and said asked if my insurance covered it and I said yes. She said ok well lets take a look inside of your mouth and how your teeth line up and jaws work and she very very methotical in her examination. She told me all the risks of how I could die on the table or have a really horrible infection, or not have any feeling in my entire face due to this surgery. She said she honestly could only see my jaw being moved only 3mm. She also said she didn't want to hurt me more in the long run, and she didnt feel comfortable only moving it 3mm, htat she herself would rather have the overbite made more obvious and prominant. I asked if that could be achieved without the need for extractions. She said no. Now my opinion here is my luck with health insurance is terrible. I mean seirously, to make my overbite so bad the ONLY way it can be fixed is with surgery and I lose the health insruance I'm stuck with a horrible overbite. I psychologically cannot deal with that. She said this could be achieved with braces so I took her word for it and said yeah You don't have to take to my orthodontist because I decided I'll just call and make an appointment for my braces, because what you said is true and I don't think I could go through all of that for surgery, its jsut not worth it. she said good I'm glad. I think you could really benefit from the braces. I said thanks sooo very much for seeing me. My dad is soooooo obessed he wants to send her a thank you card. We probably will give it to the ortho (oh she's getting one too) to give to the oral surgeon. So it's off to calling my Orthodontist's office.