I am a 33 year old teacher. I have finished my 3rd degree and recvd. my Masters Ed. though I cannot teach at this time due to severe health issues stemming from Protein C/S def. which caused gastroparesis. With this disease, I never knew a day without throwing up 2 and 3 day old food that my stomach could not digest. Once I began to throw up, I could not stop and became dehydrated and in the hospital. These episodes occured over time for so many years that my teeth lost all the enamel and began to crumble and rot from the bottom. I cannot afford to have my teeth fixed on disability. I want to smile. I still have my front teeth, though my front top/right has begun to slip and we slide it back in with denture cream. I am begging any dentist that would be interested in getting a very interesting case and benefactor that would be BLESSED beyond measure. Please let me eat and smile. I am able to eat now that I have an Entera gastric stimulator. It acts as a heart pacemaker only it is attached to my stomach and the machine is located in my lower abdomen. Yes, I can eat! Thank God He is faithful! However, after the surgery, I was so severely malnourished that I was on TPN (tube feedings). I will be on blood thinner for life. In the 7 months after my pace maker, I produced 3 pulmonary embloi (PE). (These are partly result to my Protein C/S def). One of the PE's would not desolve, so I had open chest cavity (open heart) in ChartlestonSC and was on the vent for 5 weeks. The doctors told my family I would not make it at first. The blood clot was the diameter of a half-dollar and the lenght of a hot dog. Again God is faithful.
I feel like I am being very selfish and vain by asking for help for my teeth. I am asking in our community, but they did so much for our family these past two years. They paid our bills, kept our house going while my husband sat by me and drove 4 hours back and forth weekly to spend time with our 2 precious boys. He had to take 2 Family Medical Leave's. I am greatful for that Act because I guess by now his company would have fired him for all the time he has missed. After missing 28 weeks straight no pay...no one can tell me God is not faithful. That is why I feel like I cannot go to them again so forcefully about my teeth...I feel like I am being vain about my appearance. I just want to be happy about being alive and not want to hide my smile in the process.
God has been to good to me.
Please some one help me. There has to be a dental team somewhere that is interested in my weird case. Trust me...I have only scratched the surface. There is so much more...my blood work, the operation, everything.
Please, someone...Let me smile.
I have lost teeth in the back on both side. They are rotting from the bottom up and the sides inward. My front right one is coming out and being held by denture cream. It is not becaus I am not careful with my teeth, we are not trashy people. I have a disease that killed my teeth. HELP ME!
I will come to you, if you are a dentist.
Thank you,