as pretty much everyone who knows me at least vaguely knows, im bulimic. bc god hates me or whatever, it’s given me a couple cavities. 3 of these need root canals, potentially more if we don’t fill them soon.
getting a root canal would, of course, mean i’d have to get a crown afterwards. a silver crown would be covered. a silver crown would also send me into a nervous breakdown bc, clearly, i have severe self esteem issues. so i would very much like to get white crowns.
except white crowns aren’t covered and my family is completely broke. my situation rn is complicated but i live with my aunt who had to retire early to take care of my now deceased grandma and my mom is currently in rehab.
with my current dentist, white crowns are $650 per crown. that’s $1950 that we basically can’t afford if we want to eat. we also have to pay for me to get a few white fillings which is about $100 per filling.
all of this would be happening within the next one to three months (it’s currently december 2017 for reference) so clearly, even if we cld afford it all, we wouldnt be able to afford anything else we might need, groceries, clothes, meds, etc. etc.
obviously im not asking for anyone to donate $650 upfront to pay for this and obviously im working hard to make some of this money myself but if you can donate even like $2 to my aunt’s paypal or boosting this post would be great too
paypal: [email protected]
any and all donations no matter how big or small mean a lot to me, thank you for your time
reblogs and donations have pretty much stopped in the last few days and im getting increasingly stressed out bc no matter how much i side hustle its all but guaranteed i wont be able to get enough money to afford this.
i cannot make it clear enough how bad for my mental health it’ll be if i have to get silver crowns, im not exaggerating when i tell you that i will literally have a nervous breakdown abt it bc of just how bad my anxiety and bdd are at this point. im at an all time low in my mental health regarding my appearance and it does not help that i got bullied as a kid and wld almost definitely relive that if i had silver crowns.
if you cant spare a couple of bucks then please, please, please reblog this.
it got worse!
we got a second opinion and it turns out one of the cavities might be deep enough that i’ll need it pulled. it’s one of my back molars and since i never had my wisdom teeth taken out, if we end up needing it pulled, the wisdom tooth by it could end up shifting into its place
to prevent that (if the cavity is that deep, we wont know until we go to the endodontist) from happening and since you kind of need your molars, i’d either have to get a bridge or an implant. a bridge is cheaper but would require ruining the two teeth around that molar, neither of which have a cavity so an implant would be better.
however, an implant would be around $3k.
my mom literally cannot work right now bc shes in rehab and my aunt hasnt been able to secure a job again so the only money we get comes from my moms survivor benefit checks which are only $1k and we need to pay bills, buy groceries, etc.
so far, ive gotten less than $100 in donations. my first appointment to get fillings is january 9th and we should be able to afford white fillings as long as no extra expenses come up but we cannot realistically afford white crowns or a possible implant right now.
my teeth cant just fix themselves and as much as i wish that i could, i cant pull the money needed to fix my teeth out of my ass
