Posted by Simus on May 18, 2004, at 23:57:13
In reply to RE:: Help please for Mystic, posted by Anakin on May 18, 2004, at 22:22:32
> ON ONE TOOTH!!!! 1700$.
Yep, it's absolutely outrageous. I went through a similar thing as you, and then some. One molar: I paid for a couple of fillings first over the years. Then the toothache started, but not as a toothache - as a headache. I grew worse and worse until about the forth day I figured out what was causing the "headache", which by then was so bad that I was up all night and banging my head against the pillow. Double doses of Advil and Tylenol together didn't touch the pain. So I called the dentist in the middle of the night. He said to go to emergency and get a shot of novicane. So I drove myself there, got a typical ER doctor, got a shot in the wrong place in my jaw which did no good, but I didn't trust him to keep trying. (Still got the bill, by the way. lol) Anyway, I was sent for an emergency root canal the next morning. I told them to yank the tooth, but they wanted to save it. So I got the root canal, and they put a temporary packing in until the doctor could do a crown. The temporary packing fell out the next day, but they said that was OK. But apparently it wasn't, because the day before the crown appointment, what was left of my tooth split in half. So I told my dentist to yank it. But he wanted to save it. So he built up on what was left. Eventually, the whole thing broke off at the jaw. Well except for the roots, of course. Then I had to have oral surgery for them to go in and dig the roots out. When that healed, I got an incredibly expensive bridge. LOL Somewhere out there is a yacht that I am part-owner of. Talk about being in the wrong profession! =)
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> I am alone, outside with twenty children. I grabbed that girl and swung her around, and apparently, the other kids said she hit me, although I didn't feel it. I left her go and she went back after him, picks up a handful of dirt and whips it at him so it hits me because she misses him. I regrab her and tell someone to go get help. I started screaming at her, i DID not go to school and pay thousands of dollars for a career to break up fights on the streets or anywhere else for that matter...Then I started to hyperventilate and shake so bad I think I scared the youknowwhat out of the rest of them. I was crying as well. It was ridiculous.You are right, they were behaving rediculously. I have a sixth grader, and she has a wholesome regard for what Mom and Dad would do if she even sassed a teacher, let along beat one up. Honestly, I wish there would be criminal charges brough against some of these violent kids in schools. They at least need a ride in a police car once in a while so they can get a really close look at their future. I know you can't really do much legally to a sixth grader, but if the parents got drug down to juvenile court often enough, maybe that behavior would stop.
> I hate it that I cry when this happens, but what would you do? Should I be embarrassed that i cried again for the second time this year? I feel like a fool, but I can not take this. I should not have to deal with this. I am ashamed and embarrassed, but how do you handle this stuff calmly? If i didnt cry I certainly would have sworn or said something I wasnt supposed to...
You did well, certainly better than I would have done...little brats! Your job is like working as an unarmed jailer in a prison with no jail cells (no restraint for them and no protection for you). It is an incredibly high-stress job, and you have my sympathy.
> HELP ME FIND A NEW CAREER!
Can you perhaps move to a lower grade? Or maybe teach in a special setting, like a computer lab, etc.? Can you talk to your supervisor and ask what is out there in your school district?
> I think people not on meds would feel fit to be tied right now!
You are right! I will be praying for you. God bless.
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