A Trip to the Dentist

Written December 30, 2008

Eureka! I've found it! I thought it was lost indefinitely with my transfer here to Main, but no! The one redeeming value to coming to jail that I can use forever!

Let me explain for anyone who didn't already know. I have impacted wisdom teeth that I was to have taken out by an oral surgeon (quite pricey). Then I came to jail. Once at Musick, I found out that I could have the procedure done at Western Medical Center for free. Well I was stoked but the scheduling was always screwed up and I never had it done before they transferred me here to Main. I had kinda given up on it. Until today!

Yesterday, I put in a slip for dental to see if they could look at a sore tooth and determine if I may need a filling before I leave. Well they called me over the speaker: PZZZFT! "Hey Henderson, Henderson you have a dental pass, hurry up." PZZZFT!

I was given a pass and directed down some different hallways, everything was scary and cold and depressing, and there was no color anywhere. I understand why deputies here at the Main seem meaner than anywhere else. Look at where they have to work!

I was directed down an extremely long and colorless corridor that seemed to keep going forever and ever. It was so long and had rectangular boxes with cameras everywhere in it. I feared, because of its length, that I had been sent down a wrong corridor. It felt like I was walking down a corridor in a much dirtier version of the Death Star from Star Wars. Like the Death Star, but much more depressing, and no robots. The only aliens walking through there are illegal aliens with INS holds. So I finally get to the end where there is a sort of waiting room. I give my pass to someone, and am seen by a dentist almost instantly. Push the button, that was easy.

I explain to the dental assistant, who was a very nice young Asian lady, about my impacted wisdom teeth and how I was certain nothing could be done now, but if she could look at my sore tooth? Well not only were they aware of my impacted wisdom teeth, but they had all my records AND the x-ray that they didn't have at Western Medical center that day awhile back. And on top of that, they have an oral surgeon who comes to the Main apparently to do such surgeries! Hallelujah! There is hope!

She is going to have me come back in the New Year to see him and hopefully we can have the procedure done before I go. Now, I already understand that there is a greater possibility of the procedure not taking place than there is of it going down in the next 20 days I am here. But I can still hope and pray. I've been waiting about three months to have it done, and nothing; why wouldn't it happen the last few weeks I am here right?

Oh yeah, the other semi-cool thing that happened today was I hit the triple digits. I have now been in jail for one hundred days. That means that as of today, I have twenty days left in custody. Oh yeah!

Aside from that, not much else is new here. We had "outdoor recreation" today and they put us in the open air area that has a basketball hoop instead of the other one. That was cool. And I got to have a nice long talk with my friend Konstintin (I spelled his name Constantine before which was incorrect) that I knew from the farm, which was nice. And yeah, we get hot dogs for lunch today and have dayroom last between 9pm-11pm so I am going to work out later some more and take a shower later on. Aside from that I am just going to check another day off on my calendar, and wait for lunch.

Later y'all.