Since October of last year I know I needed a root canal. I put if off for a while for one main reason as anyone would, that is MONEY! I am happy as hell to have insurance however, most dental insurance sucks. With the procedures costing so much, how can you ever be "done" with dental issues in your life time? I get a maximum of $1,500 each calendar year. If you have a root canal and a crown that year (such as what I need in 2011), you can't have anything else go wrong or you are screwed! So I decided what bills I was put gonna out off for Feb and headed to the dentist on Monday with my $530 "co pay" in my wallet!
They gave me some "oral sedatives" to calm me down which cost $75 for TWO PILLS. Back in the day I could have self medicated myself much cheaper that that but what do you do. Once they got to poking around I was told I would have to come back for a 2nd trip to finish the procedure. Since I waited so long due to lack of funds, there was some infection going on that they had to clear out before anything can happen. The best news for that day is that I don't have to walk in with another $500 when I come back.
The night before the root canal, I headed out to dinner with the family. They are always such a blast. I was working the day job that day on about 4.5 hours of sleep and stressing about the root canal so my mind was all over the place by the time I met them for dinner. When dinner was done I was looking for a cable for my Father in law and was rummaging through my truck to find it. In all that mess I'm not 100% sure I did not move a gear bag out of my truck to get to this cable and forgot to put it back in my truck or the bag got ripped off somewhere my truck was parked.
In that bag was 2 IPods, a Flip Video camera, a pair of headphones and a digital camera. All things I use at Peppers and for the Colts. If someone did find it and saw the Peppers videos and pictures, the "perfect world" version to end this nightmare is that they would drop my stuff off at Peppers and be a good citizen. I doubt that is gonna happen and I dream that I am proven wrong and my stuff will magically show up. Gonna cost about $500 to replace the contents of that bag.
Of course I did not notice the bag gone until Tuesday since I was doped up from the root canal trip on Monday. I do know I need to track my stuff better but that also goes hand in hand with more sleep. Sometimes I don't know if I am coming or going but I'm a provider and am lucky and blessed to do so!
I just wanted to share how I could spend a thousand dollars in 2 days!
