Teeth

I went to the dentist yesterday- because my parents were all "we like this ONE particular dentist better and we trust him". I guess that's fine and all, and when I went to see the guy I didn't have any particular complaints. He seemed like a decent guy, he paid me out a little for knowing shit all for anatomy when he found out I was a med student- I guess that's fine, it's my fault for being retarded, but God I hate studying anatomy. 

Anyway dentist dude looked at my teeth, agreed that I needed wisdom teeth extraction but also found various other problems, so he wanted a second opinion from the orthodontist. My parents didn't like the orthodontist as much, probably because he didn't speak Chinese like my dentist did. Not that it made any difference, because as it turns out my parents still had zero idea what was going to happen, even though the dentist explained to them, in Chinese, that I needed surgery for my wisdom teeth. Fun times.

So the surgery is going to be after my birthday, which means my biggest concern of looking totally unattractive on the day of my birthday is gone. Other than that though, surgery is still going to be super-painful afterwards, with the swelling and whatnot. The orthodontist also told me I needed braces, which makes sense for my crooked teeth- apparently I have a "traumatic deep bite, severity 100%". I don't need to understand dental lingo to get that my teeth is fucked. Then my orthodontist made the entirely inappropriate joke, "if only your mouth was bigger... hrm, that could sound inappropriate out of context; I won't go there". Like, what a fucking troll, my mom was in the room! Good thing she didn't get the undertone, and thought my orthodontist was just making a PG-rated joke.

Anyway the quote for braces I got was like, equivalent to how much I spend on school in a year- which just means it's entirely expensive and very not-cool. I really want to start making money soon- I'm spending so much of it, and there's so much stuff I just need/ want to buy. It's one thing to have enough money for all the leisure items you want- yeah I can buy books, games, cool t-shirts and clothes- but when it comes to the big stuff, like a house or a car or orthodontic treatment, I realize how poor I am. 

God why are my teeth giving me so much pain.