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I am so exhausted I can barely sit here. Bleh. I got up early to go to the dentist to get those two old fillings redone to the tune of $266 because my stupid dental insurance believes resin fillings are "cosmetic" and therefore covered at a lower percentage. That's annoying. What's MORE annoying is that Dentist of Doom decides to tell me when I am getting my novocaine shot that she "saw on the x-rays" that I have "a little bit of decay" in between two other teeth that "need to be taken care of ASAP." She actually wanted to do them /today/ but I said no. But I don't get it. These x-rays were taken at my cleaning 2 weeks ago. She didn't see it then?

After I get the fillings replaced I go out to pay and ask what it would cost for this new problem. The receptionist hands me a "treatment plan" and my estimated payment is $250 - one filling is listed as a "3 surface" and one a "2 surface." And I'm sorry, if FIVE tooth surfaces are decaying, wouldn't she have noticed it during my exam? Honestly, I do not understand this situation and can't tell if I'm overreacting or not. It just seems like I'm getting scammed into dental work with the "oh, by the way"s. So frustrated. Not sure what I'm going to do.

After the dentist, I ran to work. I had 4 visits scheduled (plus staff meeting), but I got no-showed at one which is majorly annoying. Then I went to the park to walk with Anne and Marti Maraschino, then picked thespian up in Fields Corner, then got Jen, then went to dinner at La Paloma where we had to wait almost 30 minutes. So dinner was late (ugh) and I ended up doing my Follistim injection in the car in the parking lot. Not exactly the sterilest of environments, I'm sure.

I wish tomorrow was Friday instead of Thursday. This has been a freakishly long week.