Speaker 1: Made a decision.
Speaker 2: Face Sunny summon on, I haddasion nice? What's up everybody?
Speaker 1: It's her crying out loud.
Speaker 2: Sure's how it is. Stephanie is eating her breakfast, sucking
down that egg. That's a nice breakfast, though, that's a
nice protein, healthy breakfast.
Speaker 1: You have there.
Speaker 3: Well first I had a blueberry muff ol. Well, not
be out of a proof.
Speaker 1: It's fine.
Speaker 2: All those carbs.
Speaker 1: Your energy is gonna take a dip later.
Speaker 2: Don't let him walk by and see you with that
calen put a curtain over the mirror, over the window.
By h How's how's your week been? My week has
been fine? Yeah yesterday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have a story. Uh not?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what what kind of I mean?
Speaker 1: Look, here's a deal.
Speaker 2: I did not graduate from U medical school, but I
do know a few things about a concussion over though
I've never had one, right, but Adam has had. He's
been concussed many many times in his life, and I
heard him and Drew talk about it many times, especially
when Sunny was playing football. Yesterday, I so Natalia. We
got their report cards. Natalia brought her grades up, which
very happy about, and I told her if she did.
I would take her.
Speaker 1: We would go on a little.
Speaker 2: Like shopping afternoon, right, oh yeah, so oh but where
are we going to go though?
Speaker 1: That's the thing lockdown city, right, And I was like,
I don't want to go. I don't know. I'm just
want to go to a mall or anything. I don't know.
So she was like, how about we go to my favorite.
Speaker 2: Little city, Beverly Hills because she loves to drive there.
And she's like, and then we can walk around and
Jody's been wanting to see us, and Jody lives out
that way, and Jody.
Speaker 1: Was like, yeah, we can have a picnic. I was like, picnic?
What a log strip in front of my Rodeo?
Speaker 3: Drive in front of Lisa Vanderpump's restaurant, drove past her
parking lot, just.
Speaker 2: Drove her back past her other place that shut down.
What's the name of that, not sir, not vander Pump
or whatever? The first one, Villa Blanca, Villa Blanca Blanca. Yes,
she Natalia just started watching Real Houswise of Beverly Hills,
by the way, like season Her and her Friend season one,
you know, and so she likes Lisa and I was like, yeah,
just just just wait, yeah, exactly, you gonna end up
hating her.
Speaker 1: Just as much as mommy does. She's all right, but anyway,
so I said we could do it.
Speaker 2: We can go to Beverly Hills but we're not buying
anything if that's what you want. Or we can go
to the mall, like I'm not gonna maybe I'll buy
you a little something.
Speaker 3: But she never think you'd you'd long for the days
of Brandy. Oh I wish store because everything is like
thirty bucks. Yes, and now you're like the kids they
once they grow out of that, it's like, oh, well,
make those days where I could get you a pair
of pants for right or for twenty bucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's not even really like it's not that
it's cheap clothes. It's just she's not right exactly, but
like it's not sax office. Yeah totally, but it's not.
But it doesn't normal.
Speaker 2: Quality, it doesn't right, it does a job whatever, but
makes them happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so Jody was like we can she Yeah, Jody
walks all over the city because she's she lives by herself,
she doesn't have to go anywhere, so that's her exercise.
And so she's like, there's a park over by. I
don't know, I think it's the Beverly Hills Park or something. Yeah.
She's like, we can go get takeout and go sit there. Okay,
that's fine, except yesterday was the most the coldest in
Los Angeles. I mean, we have a cold front moving in,
which I told Natalia and she's like, what's a cold front?
Is that a new shirt they have at Barney's? Like,
is that a new designer?
Speaker 1: No, listen, it was freezing.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I took her down there and it was
First of all, she comes out of her room and
she's dressed like a shar mutta. Yeah right, she's wearing
a short, short skirt and a little T shirt and
oh no, no little T shirt. Then she went I said, oh,
you're gonna be freezing.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Because she went to volleyball earlier that day an hour
so what took her to volleyball? Came home, she showered
really quick, she took a hatch on, so she's like fine,
and I'm like, it's freezing in my bedroom. It's gonna
be freezing out there, trust me. No, No, I'm fine,
I'm fine. I'm like, uh, okay, you're gonna wear that shirt.
I can't change mind. She's like, yeah, okay, all right.
So Jody finds us a little spot at the park
and we I said, well, we're going to walk around
first and then we'll come meet you. And we get
there and by the way, and once last time you've.
Speaker 1: Been shopping in Beverly Hill, Stephanie, Well, I was gonna
say that.
Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever in all my years of
living in Los Angeles just gone I've gone shopping a
lot of other places melroads, like I've Ventura Boulevard, but
I've never just parked and like walked around these stores.
Is that in Beverly Hills? Ver Hills seems spread out
to me? Like it doesn't seem like all the good
stores are and plus well all the good stores is relative,
because I would never buy it, like.
Speaker 2: Like a Gucci store. There's a Gucci, there's a Shin. Now,
there's a there's a Free People, there's you know, it
runs the gamut. But okay, so the thing is is
that we've been driving there so much. She's like, Oh,
there's that store, there's Kyle's store. Is still there?
Speaker 1: No, No, God's gone. It did really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I wouldn't even know the name of it.
I forgot it too, right anyway, So there's so there's
not any Yeah, it is spread out, but you could
park and you could walk. You know. She had like
three stores she wanted to go look at, and one
of them was Gucci and or Chanel or no, I
don't even remember which one. I don't know, and all
I know is it was freezing and then second it's not.
Turns out Beverly Hills is not like the Tipanga Plaza,
Like if you want to go into their store, even
just to get warm, you have to make an appointment
or you have to wait in line. What yes, yeah,
well the waiting in line thing, well it's different.
Speaker 1: It's whole, but it's not. Pandora Rich is different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Pandora's Box is not this place. It's one
person in the store until that person leaves it. At
least it was for the three stores we went to, right,
it was like one or two people in and the
line and I'm not exaggerate did not move at for
we were standing in line for like half an hour
waiting for Jody to get her shit together and come
find us. So We're just like, all right, we'll just
meet her here, and it turns out like at thirty
minutes go by.
Speaker 1: Then we were four people deep in line.
Speaker 2: Then the guy that's in front that has not moved
his friends came by and they were like, you're.
Speaker 1: Still standing in line.
Speaker 2: You're still here. You were the first in line when
we left you, And I was like, hell, no, did
you hear what? He's been standing here for an hour?
Pretty much like has not whoever's been in that store
has not been kicked out, or hasn't left, or hadn't
made a decision, or hasn't done their refund or whatever
the fuck they're trying to do inside that store. They're
still in there, and apparently they're not keeping it moving
and they don't give a shit. So I was like, Natalia,
what are we doing here? We're not buying anything so
much like I know, but I want to I want
to go and see the I don't know, high tops
they have or whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I was like, she high tops.
Speaker 2: I guess, I don't know, or maybe it wasn't which
store was it.
Speaker 1: It was one of those name brand stores. I don't know.
Louis vauton maybe I don't know. I don't know, okay.
Speaker 2: So then she's like I go, okay, we this clearly
no and I said, and she goes, okay, well, let's
go try the Chanel store. So we go across the street,
down the block, go to the Chanel store.
Speaker 1: But it's a huge store.
Speaker 2: It's upstairs, downstairs, like a big department store, right on
the corner of like like an H and M. Yeah,
like an H and M exactly just like it. So
we get there and there's like six people in line,
and I'm like, okay, but this is a big store.
It's probably moving by the way, the cold front moves
in and it's freezing and the wind's blowing, and she's
wearing a little tennis skirt and I'm like and she's like,
my legs don't get cold.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well shit, you gotta be freezing now.
Speaker 2: I'm like staying there in my jeans and my sweat jacket.
Speaker 1: She's like, I'm okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was like, Natalia, why are we doing this?
Speaker 1: I said, let's just go. We're starving.
Speaker 2: I was like, let's go get something to eat. Now,
here's the thing. A couple hours earlier, she was at volleyball.
She got smacked her face. She got hit in the
face with the volleyball, but right in the eye, right smacked.
So she was going for the layup whatever, and the
girls smacked it down and it hit her like hard.
And those volleyball they're not the kid volleyball, they're the
real hard. Yeah, they're like almost like a basketball. Hit
her right in the eye and so her so I
was I stayed in the car and waited for her
the whole hour while she was in there. And then
she came out and she said, I got smacked in
the eye at the end of practice. But she said
her coach told her to keep an eye on it.
They gave her ice at first, but then they said
she said keep an eye on it because she was
hit in the head with a volleyball and got I
can cush. So I'm looking at her and her eyes
starting to get pink and puffy, and now I'm like, fuck,
now what, like, now you have a concussion maybe or not.
And Natalia, with her anxiety or whatever, She's like, well,
I need to know if I have a concussion so
I can go to if I'm going to have a concussion,
then I can't go to practice tomorrow, and I have
Brian her personal one on one in the morning or
right after school's over. And then she's got her afternoon
of full practice because there's a tournament this weekend. So
she's like, and I can't miss any practice leading into
the tournament, and so I have to know if I
have a concussion. And I'm like, well, all right, why
don't we just why don't we go home and rest
and see how you do? How you feel? No, I
want to go shopping. I'm fine, I'm fine. I was like, well,
just why don't you just give it a minute, We'll
go home, we rest, so we you know, she sat there,
she ate, she felt you know, she was fine. I said,
you have a headache. She said little, but not anything really,
and she doesn't feel nauseous, she doesn't feel anything. Adam
looks at her eye and he said, you know, you're fine.
There's nothing anything can you can do for it. Really
told her don't take any mochen or anything like that,
just just wait and see how you feel. And she's like, yeah,
I feel fine, So let's go. Why shouldn't she take
any motrin?
Speaker 1: I guessed because it'll can thin her blood or something. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: They just don't it's and her coach told her that too,
don't take any motrin, so just wait and see if
you really just give it a few hours and so
then he was like, don't go to sleep or anything.
So she's like, well, what am I going to do?
Then let's go walk around. I was like I maybe
fresh air. Fine, So we go walk. So now fast
forward a few hours later, we're standing in the freezing cold, starving.
She gave up and she was like, all right, let's
go eat. And then we went and we went and
got food and we sat in the car and ate.
Speaker 1: And then it's like.
Speaker 2: This whole delve thing like now her and like she's like, well,
I don't know if I need to if I need
to go or not.
Speaker 1: I want to know.
Speaker 2: She wants to know she has a concussion or not.
She's fine, Yeah, I said, you feel fine. So and
she's like, but how do we know it's not a concussion?
I said, Natalia, you would be nauseous.
Speaker 3: You would be she would be not wanting to be
standing outside the Chanel store, right or she gave yeah, exactly, yeah,
so you know and I thought about taking her just
to the er, but I'm like, no, Natalia, that is
a hot bed right now.
Speaker 1: We can't go to these. There's no reason for that.
Speaker 2: There's no reason, I know. And she was like I
So anyway, we just went home. We didn't go to
the er. I called Drew though, and on our way
home I pulled over the side of the road and
I gave her an eye exam and through the fuck
he told me he's like all right, which was nice
to know what to do to see if she has
a concussion. So by then it was like dark out.
So he said, take your flashlight on your phone and
flashing in her eye and if her pupil constricts.
Speaker 1: Then she's fine. She's fine. I did it lo and
behold it was fine.
Speaker 2: Yes, And then he said look on the side of
her eye and see if you see any cloudiness or
any She was fine.
Speaker 3: You know what I would do if I were you,
I would make her wear a helmet to procnize.
Speaker 1: Totally.
Speaker 3: Get her a bike helmet, like you know, a pink
one or cute like green stick.
Speaker 1: Stickers.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the way to go. Yeah, the stickers could
be from Brandy know how they do those. Yeah, they
could make it cool.
Speaker 1: Oh for sure. If she gets mad, just be like, no,
this is cool. This is what people are doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got stickers from this Ron John surf shop.
She could put she's got stickers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: It's a good idea. I'm gonna stop at the helmet
store on the way home.
Speaker 1: The helmet store.
Speaker 2: What do you got calling Stephanie? Well, any concussions going
on in your family?
Speaker 3: Very close I have. Do you want to hear about
my two I.
Speaker 2: Was going to ask you it's code headlining.
Speaker 1: With the blue shield material on my ted talk. Yeah.
When I do my tour, it's.
Speaker 3: Going to be I think I'll open with blue shield
because that's give the people what they want. Yeah, but
then I'll probably close with the tooth all my tooth
stuff because people will be going, Stephanie, what's your teeth?
Speaker 1: I'll always have something new. Totally it's a great idea. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when we last checked in, I told you that
my dentist, who I care about, Okay, she's a good dentist,
that she said she did the little test.
Speaker 1: On my teeth and said you need a root canal.
Speaker 3: Then I was freaking out about that, and I think
I'd picked my root canal person at that point.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, So I don't have dental insurance. Of course,
from what I've.
Speaker 3: Heard, it really doesn't do any good anyway, most most
dentists don't take it. Okay, So I go to the
root canal lady and and you write dentist, No, I had, lady, specialist.
It's called an endodontis and it's very different. Apparently a
lot of this is the whole thing that I have
found out. Apparently dentistry not an exact science, a lot
of different like specialties. This person doesn't do this, and
this person doesn't do that. Like yeah, it's like if
you were to go to like a plastic surgeon's office
and go can I get botox?
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh no, we have you got to
go to a botox ery right for that?
Speaker 2: Right? It doesn't Normally you wouldn't expect it. You would
expect like you handle teeth right and exactly teets his teeth?
We can?
Speaker 1: Why not? I know? And this one's okay, but I'll
get to that. I'll get to that part.
Speaker 3: So I went on Facebook and a bunch of people
gave me recommendations of their person and somebody. I don't
even think she's a listener to our show, because this
is my personal page which gave me this woman. I
went in, I had a consult, and this is where
we last left off. The consult lady had said, I'll
do the root canal. But I'm not sure why you
would have gotten an infection, because unless you have a
crack in your tooth.
Speaker 1: Now, remember I had a crack on the other side.
Speaker 3: Now I'm a hillbilly with a big gap in that
one because guess what I found out. It's not I
spent forty five hundred dollars at the oral surgeon having
the implant put in. Remember, yeah, that's not the same
thing as the that's not everything. Then you have to
go back to your dentist and you have to get
a fake tooth, and it's it's that's a crown, right,
that's a whole other casha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, nobody warned me.
Speaker 3: My dentist never was like, by the way, you might
want to refinance your house, right, because you're looking down
the pipe at some katching.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, So nobody tells me that.
Speaker 3: She's like, okay, yeah, make an appointment. Oh, this is
gonna be several appointments worth. So meanwhile, I got the
infection on the other tooth, so I forgot about I
was like, well, let that gap hang out for a
while because I got bigger fish to fry on.
Speaker 1: The last mouth was on fire, right.
Speaker 3: So I get that. So I I the root canal.
Lady is like, you know, it's a gamble.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I call my friend who used to work at a
dental office, and I'm like, this end a dantis says
that she can do the root canal, but that she
thinks I have a crack in my tooth. Possibly she
can't see it, but she suspects it's there.
Speaker 2: What do I do?
Speaker 3: And she's like, and it's gonna cost me five hundred
dollars even if she can't do the root canal, because
once they get in there anyway, my friend says, well,
you got to try, because you can't just pull your
tooth like preemptively, right.
Speaker 1: If it can be saved. I was like, yeah, you
have a point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the last thing I want is for the surgeon
to pull the tooth and go this tooth.
Speaker 1: Looked pretty good, let's put it back. Holy shit.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, so now I'm totally nervous.
I went on our for crying out loud page. I
was like, I'm going in for the root canal. Everybody
is like, it's gonna be totally fine. I've had root canals,
it's not a big deal, right. Also, the tooth is
dead and doesn't have any feeling, so everyone's like, it
doesn't hurt.
Speaker 2: I am scared of the actual pain or what are
you afraid of?
Speaker 1: So she had to go.
Speaker 3: When I had a filling done on one tooth a
while ago for my dentist, I could feel it. You
can't even though she had numbed me up.
Speaker 1: Do you remember this?
Speaker 3: And then she got kind of mad because I was like, ow,
like I think she hit a nerve and she was like,
you can't feel that, and I was like I got
can And then she was like, well do you want
me to stop?
Speaker 1: Oh? God, like no, no, I don't know. Maybe I'm
just a giant baby. Well well maybe she didn't know
how to like numb you up properly.
Speaker 3: Remember when we had our our LiPo, our Blazer LiPo,
that lady got mad at me too, because when they
are shooting you up.
Speaker 1: With the Lyda Kane. Oh my god. It was massively painful.
Speaker 3: And when I was like, ow ow, she that's the
same thing, she was like, really shouldn't hurt that much.
I don't know, do I have a different pain threshold.
I'm not making it up right. So I was scared
of that. I was scared that, like I was going.
Speaker 1: To feel feel something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was very nervous. And then she's like, well,
the only thing.
Speaker 3: That's going to hurt a little bit is the nova cane,
which I'm going to really try to you know, I'm
going to make it as painless as possible. She's like,
but there is a shot I have to give you
in your palette that is going to hurt. I was like,
in your palette in the roof of your mouth, are
you kidding? Really not kidding? She struck that shit on me.
So I'm already upset. But I elected to go with
no gas. Okay, why because she kept telling me it's
really not gonna hurt.
Speaker 1: So I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just felt like at that point, the gas is
like another couple hundred bucks. It's like, let me see
if these people are right, and it doesn't hurt, and
then I was already into it at that point.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be like, can I have gas?
I'm scared. So she's doing the novacane.
Speaker 3: It hurts, but not that bad that She's like, Okay,
breathe because I'm going to do the palette shot Lynette
when it was one of the worst things I've felt
in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so bad.
Speaker 3: It was like somebody shot me in the roof of
my mouth. And then she and I started crying. I
was not a portrait of courage.
Speaker 2: Because it was so shocking.
Speaker 3: You know, when you're like, I listen, I can with
stand payne, I get botox without any kind of numbing
stuff on it.
Speaker 2: It hurts, but I just like, you through it, right,
listen to to music.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: I was trying to listen to a pot This was
so bad. I felt like it was on fire.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it sounds like it.
Speaker 3: I start crying, and then I was embarrassed because I
was crying. I was like, I'm sorry, I'm crying. That
was just very shocking, and I need a minute.
Speaker 1: She's like, okay, can I keep going? And I was like, no,
just just give me a minute, please, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: There's like her assistant who's in there. They're both having
to just sort of sit there and look at me.
Speaker 2: It was horrible. I was like, why couldn't I have
been asleep for this again?
Speaker 1: Like come on.
Speaker 3: So then she's getting in there with the drill drill, drill, drill, drill, drill,
and then she's.
Speaker 2: Like, bad news, there's a crack in your tooth. Oh.
Speaker 3: I was like that you probably just made. So she's like,
hang on, let me put some dye in it so
I can see how deep it goes. We could still
possibly save it if it's not that deep. Bad news,
it's really deep. Can't save your tooth?
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to put in a temporary filling and
then have a good day. And I was like, wait, really,
oh my god, that's it. Yes, So then this is
not the end of the story. So then I'm like, well,
what am I going to do.
Speaker 1: She's like, well, you got to have it pulled.
Speaker 3: She's like, and I would definitely get an implant because
you're young.
Speaker 1: Well what the hell?
Speaker 3: Like, I said, well, can't I just get a bridge?
She's like, well, I hate to see somebody like your
age get a bridge when the teeth on either side
of it are fine, Like, then you got to file
down those teeth, and then you got to make a bridge,
and then it's going to have to be replaced, like
in a few years. I was like, okay, but why
are all my teeth falling out?
Speaker 1: Why we have no teeth? You should not have done
all that meth seventy I tried.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, at least if I done meth, I
could have had the enjoyment, right, temporary enjoyment of having
done some meth. Well, then then I hit the pipe
on the way to the I want you and have
been fine, fly right through that.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, okay, well I can't afford an impult.
Now I'm not at her right, I'm like, well, I
can't afford an implant.
Speaker 1: And then she's like, well you.
Speaker 2: Should have thought of that when you were riding your teeth.
Speaker 3: Then we had a fistfight. It was not so I'm like,
what do you think I should do? She's like, I
would definitely get an implant, And I said, but it's
gonna be forty five hundred dollars just to get the
implant without even the crown or anything. We're looking at like,
oh my god, I spend fifteen thousand dollars like on
my teeth this year because I was like, I just
had the other one like in May. So she says, well,
I would get the implant. She goes, you know, you
could probably go it's you have an infection in there,
but it's not.
Speaker 1: It is an active infection.
Speaker 3: But my ammusem just a missing is well, because that's
how I knew I had the tooth problem. At most places,
I was in pain, right, which is why I was
sitting in that in here doing a show with you
with my water.
Speaker 2: Or your water addle up against your cheek, all right.
So then I'm like, okay, okay. She's like, well, you
know you don't have to do it like tomorrow. She's like,
because if you're not in pain, so you could save.
Speaker 1: Up, save up.
Speaker 2: What is she thinking is.
Speaker 3: Fund account for stuff's implant so she doesn't look like
a hillbilly. So I'm like, all right, thank you, So
I leave. John is really sweet about it, by the way.
He's like, you know what, whatever, we'll get money out
of savings and you'll get the implant. Like let's not
start like, oh, you know you could like pawn your
crimping iron or something. Well, we'll find the money under
the couch cushions. Okay, So then I decide I'm going
to look up. I decide this is so me. I'm like,
you know what, I don't think my dentist knows what
she's doing. Why didn't she have me have a night guard?
We all prevented this. Now I'm mad at my dentist.
So I'm like, I'm going to get a new dentist,
and I'm going to find out who. So I look
on nextdoor dot com. I find executives, I check their
Yelp reviews, start getting mad at different dentists for having
shitty Yelp reviews.
Speaker 1: You ever do that?
Speaker 3: Like someone I'm never gonna go to. But I'm like,
this person really fucks me. Yeah, assurance, don't there help?
I want to like contact the customers of this place
and go that must have been a terrible experience for you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for writing your review. I'm not gonna go
to that. Totally found that helpful.
Speaker 3: So a next door A few different people recommend this
one doctor doctor like I don't even remember his name.
It's something like doctor Kittens or something something that sounds
good and gentle. Yes, So I call, I call the
office and it's me, so I'm giving them too much of.
Speaker 1: The story on the phone. The person answers the phone.
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, so here's the situation, and they're like, okay, how.
Speaker 1: May I direct your call?
Speaker 2: I hate that, by the way, when you call the
doctors and a doctor's office, you're like, well, I have
a UTI, but I had one in February and now
it's back again, so I don't know if they want
to still give me, like, man, this is the exchange service.
Speaker 1: It's your doctor. Yes, how about him? I can give
him a whole.
Speaker 2: SOB story, yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And then they're like do you want to come in
and make an appointment? And you're like, well, I'm kind.
Speaker 2: Of uncomfortable, but I took some of that A z
O pills that I got a CBS. I'm okay for now,
but would you recommend asking some chick? This works the
after hours exchange our lunch.
Speaker 3: They're like is this an emergency? You're like, well, I
don't know for sure. Does this not like an emergency
to you?
Speaker 2: Right? I allow them on the stupid thing is like
hang up and call nine one one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who's doing right?
Speaker 2: Oh? I didn't know about that.
Speaker 1: Oh there's oh what is it?
Speaker 2: Nine? One zero?
Speaker 1: What it nine?
Speaker 3: Basically, they're saying like, if this is something pretty serious,
not our problem, but.
Speaker 1: That's above our.
Speaker 2: Pay grade, you might gonna talk to.
Speaker 1: Somebody about that.
Speaker 3: So I'm on the phone at doctor Kitten's office and
I'm like, listen, I see you got some you got
some recommendations on next door.
Speaker 1: First of all.
Speaker 3: Second of all, I went to the Yelp reviews. Things
are looking okay, you're checking out, you were with, you
made it past my screening process, and now we're here.
Speaker 2: We are on the phone. Here's the situation. And this
was like the day I had the root canal.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I just had half a root canal
today and they're like huh. I'm like, okay, let's back up.
Speaker 1: I'm at my dentist. She tells me, I need you know,
I'm giving them too much information.
Speaker 3: She's like uh huh, And I'm like, anyway, what I'm
trying to understand is, according to the reviews, doctor Kittens
does everything like soups, soup to nuts, right, how much
does he charge? And she says, uh, well, I can't.
You know, they always want to tell you. They can't
tell you. I hate that because they're going to charge
you a whole bunch more right.
Speaker 2: They just give me aver it, Just give me an
right average. That's what I said. I go, can you
ballpark it? So she's like, well, okay, if they but
there's a lot of factors.
Speaker 3: Like if he takes out your tooth and then there's infection,
you might not be able to do the blah blah bah.
So I'm like, okay, just ballpark three grand. I'm like, really,
three grand? That doesn't sound at this point that is
sounding like Christmas morning, right, because the other one, it's
forty six hundred, forty five ninety is what I paid
just for the implant, none of the crown.
Speaker 1: Wow, this one was going to be three grand all in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's they're going to take your tooth out, they're
going to do the implant, they're going to make the
crown all that, And I'm like, wow, that's super reasonable.
But now I'm suspicious because I'm like, why is this
guy like doing everything? Everybody else is like the Endodante's
the half a root canal. Ladies like I can't take
your tooth out on that right, Because I was at
that point, I'm like, I'm all mombed up. Can't you
just take my chick? I would have said, yeah, right, oh.
Speaker 1: No, I don't do that. Don't tell me you didn't
do it in dental school, bitch, you know how to
do it, right.
Speaker 2: I'm already crying.
Speaker 3: How much worse could it get? Like I can't feel anything.
I already had the palette shot, I take the tooth out? Yeah, no,
I don't do that, okay, But now suddenly this kittens guy.
Speaker 1: Is like I'll do everything. I'm like, what kind of
horror show is this? Wait, he's going to take the
tooth out. He's going to do surgery because it's the implant.
Speaker 3: Is like they put a screw in your jaws and
they have to do like a bone graph.
Speaker 2: To get like right, okay, just bone graph alone just
sounds just terrible, terrible.
Speaker 3: So she's like, oh, yeah, they'll do that, and then
they do the then they do make the crown, then
they place the crown, all this stuff, and I'm like,
where do you go to school?
Speaker 1: I'm like, he does all that, and then I said, okay,
but is it.
Speaker 3: How much more is it the anesthesia that's where they
get you give me had a sleep? I'm like, well,
so how much is it for the putting you to sleep?
Is that included in there? And she's like putting you asleep?
Speaker 1: And I was like, uh, yeah, yes, yes, why are
you sounding surprised?
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, I.
Speaker 1: Was all excited about this guy. She's like, we know,
we don't put you to sleep for that.
Speaker 3: I was like, hold on, lady, are you doing meth?
Speaker 1: Because that's crazy talk.
Speaker 3: And she's talking to me like this is a normal conversation,
like like.
Speaker 1: I hate that too, Like don't you now do you
go to Dennis?
Speaker 3: Like I'm at a French restaurant trying to order nachos.
She's like, oh, why would we do that? I'm like,
why would anybody have a freaking bone graft awake?
Speaker 2: Who's doing that? What kind of people are.
Speaker 1: You dealing with? And she's like, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3: I go, well, my oral surgeon who did my first one,
has never heard of anybody being awake for it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even a question. They put you to sleep.
Speaker 3: You're a sleep for forty minutes and then you wake
up and VOI, La, you weren't aware of any palette
shots or tooth coming out of your mouth phone wraps,
like as God intended it. I was getting so frustrated
and I was like, well could he do that? I
was like, I have no plans at all, not even
in pencil of being awake for any of this. Right now,
I'm already mad. I haven't even booked an appointment. So
she's like, I mean, I guess I could find out.
I'm like, okay, could you find out? I don't know
if she ever did. I call a couple more and
it's like, I'm getting so many different stories.
Speaker 1: Well, this person does this part of it, but they
don't do that part of it.
Speaker 2: Sounds like they make up their rules as they go
along these days. No, I don't want to do that,
so I'm just going to say I don't do that.
Just send them to someplace else, you know what I mean?
That's all percent. When does that ever? I mean in
one other field, I don't even think, I mean yet,
doctors have they're specialties, but come on, like you don't
go to and like you know, your your doctor's appointment
and they want to draw blood, except they send you
to the lab.
Speaker 1: But it's like, there's just you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean, but there seems like it draws
your blood. Somebody blood, right, It's not like we don't
do that and go like I'm sorry, I don't look
in your ear, right, that's just you gotta go to
only an ear, nose and throat.
Speaker 3: They'll look in your ear. They won't do surgery in that,
but they'll check it out.
Speaker 1: Right. This is so crazy, so weird. They make up
their own rule totally.
Speaker 3: And another one is like, you know, you could come in,
but oftentimes if he doesn't do blah blah blah, he'll
send you to an oral surgeon. I'm like, okay, yeah,
after I've paid like two hundred dollars for the consult
and then he's gonna be like, yeah, I can't do it.
I was like, can he do it? But even the
cheapest consult is like a hundred bucks. So anyway, this
is this is the end of the story. I'm like,
you know what, I'm just gonna call my dentist who
knows my case and just ask her what I should do,
Like yeah, because luckily she's not going to try to
upsell me to have her do it.
Speaker 1: Because she's one of those people that say, I don't
do that. I don't take teeth out, I don't do
I don't do any of that shit.
Speaker 2: Do you do.
Speaker 3: I'll do an X ray, I'll look at your teeth,
and I won't recommend a night guard.
Speaker 2: I think she's a gay.
Speaker 3: I think she wants me to lose all my teeth.
She's jealous of me and all my beautiful teeth.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I call her and she calls me back, and
she's so sweet. But she's like, you know when they
just do not sound like an expert. Yes, Like it's
almost like you're talking to like your mom or something,
and they're just like, oh, that sounds hard.
Speaker 1: You know, you're you're my dentist. I'm like, not my therapist.
Speaker 3: Yes, I picture, you're old, you're older, lady theist.
Speaker 1: Then you talk to your car while draining you remember
that that sounds hard totally.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the my dentist says, I was like, but it's
going to be like it's another forty.
Speaker 1: Five, Oh, she says.
Speaker 3: I say, what's with all these people that are like
a jack of all trades. They want to like not
take your tooth out, build your build you a new
what they want to do everything? And she's like, yeah,
she says, which I agreed. She was like, not really
a fan of that. Like she goes, there's it is
a specialty, like I don't That's why I don't do
it right. And she's like, I wouldn't go to somebody
who says they do all of it personally. I think
you should go to unless they're specialists in that field.
She's like, if I were you, She's like, because, plus,
I would not just let anybody put in an implant.
It's very difficult and if it's placed wrong at all,
your info down the road tons of problems, like and
I've seen it done wrong. So she's like, I would
go to the oral surgeon and have them do the
implant if you're going to go that route. And then
I said, well, what about the bridge I go? Could
I just be toothless?
Speaker 1: And she's like, I wouldn't because your teeth could move,
you know, she's telling you.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, then she says, well, here's what I
would do, And then she gave me some actual useful
information was which was to call UCLA or USC there's
schools of dentistry.
Speaker 1: You don't get a student.
Speaker 3: She's like, they have these programs where actual dent practicing
dentists who are already have gone through school are doing procedures.
And she's like, and they will help you from beginning
to end and you can save a lot of money. Wow,
and she but it's hard.
Speaker 2: But apparently during COVID a lot of them are not
taking any new patients. So that's what I'm going to
be looking into today. Okay, wow, Stephanie, Jesus, what a pain.
Speaker 3: A lot of this is my own a brokeness. While
I get I mean just not having you know, eight
thousand dollars lying around to buy a new tooth. Yeah,
to buy and it's fun and it's not like a
fun expenditure now I know, of course. And then I
got really paranoid that I was going to start losing
more teeth, you know. I started having anxiety, like every
night I'm grinding my teeth, like, what's the next tooth?
Speaker 2: Is? This is what hurt? Maybe my bottom what hurts too? Right?
Speaker 3: Maybe that one has an infection. I'm freaking out. And
John's like, we have to get you a mouth guard.
Speaker 1: Oh yes.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, though, my dentist is like no point in getting
a night guard until you know if you're because you're
going to spend five hundred dollars on that and then
have to get a new one because you have different.
Speaker 1: Teeth, right, you have to have it fitted right. So
I went to Target and got like a temporary one.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 1: Remember you were telling me about the one that like
just does the front teeth.
Speaker 2: Well, I found when at Target that was thirty bucks
that you mold it and it does your back teeth
and it keeps This thing is genius for all you
guys out there who are having relating to my problems,
and by the way, I think a lot of people
are because there was a long thread about it. People
losing teeth right because a grinding. Yes, Jesus, this thing is.
Speaker 3: It only covers like your middle molars, but it keeps
your teeth apart. It keeps you when you sleep, It
keeps you from grinding, okay, and it molds to your teeth.
You dip it in hot water, then you make a mold,
and then you dip it in cold water.
Speaker 1: It's like a little process. Right.
Speaker 2: It felt a little bit like I was, you know,
I'm breaking.
Speaker 1: Bad fourth grade and doing your cooking mask.
Speaker 3: Yeah, get the get the hot to cold right the
right right?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I made a mouth guard and I've
been I've been using that. Okay, it seems fine. No
money saver, right, it's where they freaking get you the
mouth guard?
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's a whole processes you have to Yeah,
I mean, why are these people to just put a
popsicle stick in your.
Speaker 1: In your teeth?
Speaker 2: Yeah, popsicle sticks save up for that implant.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So this was all a long way to go to tell.
Speaker 1: You guys that I'm doing a bake sale. You're gonna say.
Speaker 2: You could swing by.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got some baked goods for you, and yeah, hopefully
I'll come up with eight thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to your raising money for the school? Oh
you're not at that school anymore? For crying out loud show?
Speaker 1: Oh so yeah.
Speaker 3: So when I was moving over to the News school,
I wanted to do it for them, but.
Speaker 1: Then COVID happened, Right, I got you? Yeah? Wow.
Speaker 3: Then I offer to do for my new school the
show online the way I'm doing it, like just for
my writing class, as a complete benefit for the school
and the principal like never got back to me. I
followed up. I was like, listen, I could do this show.
It's super easy, and you can just promote it within
the school and it could be parents from within the
school doing the show and doing them for years.
Speaker 1: It's really fun. It goes well on zoom. Yeah. Uh
what no, nothing? No, Maybe they don't have a sense
of humor. I don't know, it was weird. Maybe they
don't want money.
Speaker 2: So how how else was your week? So I didn't
have to go to the Dennis right? Yeah? I mean
I just kids still, you know, plugging along at home.
We just got the whole I just saw in the news,
yeah today that our band might be getting getting lifted
this week. At least we can have our outdoor dining back,
which'll be nice.
Speaker 3: I mean, isn't it sad that that's like the height
of luxury at this point?
Speaker 1: And could I eat outside at a restaurant right in
the freezing cold? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it really put a damper on things
when they and also my kids, uh can't put more
than two kids, can't play tennis even if they're across
really each other. You can't do with the shutdown, So
now they will be able to have outdoor sport.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Sunny, you'll hopefully maybe be able to
hook up with his friends now because you know, when
it was all it's shut down, so usually during school time,
he would after school go at least meet up his
friends on a Friday, right and hang out at the
town center or whatever.
Speaker 1: And now there's like they can't do that.
Speaker 2: But now hopefully because that boy needs to be with
his friends, because all we do is argue.
Speaker 1: Really, yes, I've surveen more this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just little things, you know, like just these little
stupid things. Like he was telling me about the super
Bowl and it's going to be playing it. They're going
to do where's the super Bowl at? And he's like, yeah,
it's uh in Tampa, and Tampa's the very first time
that they're going to be playing a game is playing
at their home town or whatever. And he's he was
saying because every year in the beginning, anyway, I mis
understood him, and I thought he was talking about because
of COVID, they haven't picked the city. So now they're
gonna let one of the teams that win get it
at their hometown. That's what I thought he was saying,
so I said, how did they choose Tampa Bay? And
he goes, they chose it in the beginning. And then
he's like like as if I'm asking him something insanely crazy.
Speaker 1: And I go what he goes, what do you tell?
Like he just does that, like what are you doing?
Speaker 2: When he was trying to make an argument where he
can simply go, oh, I see what you meant, Ma, No,
I didn't mean it that way. I meant it this way. No,
he just has to argue, just arguing for the sake
of arguing.
Speaker 1: What I think that is. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think it's a combination of living with Adam
probably and also yeah, he's he's got that.
Speaker 1: The testoster.
Speaker 2: All his his hormones are kicking in and they're going whacky.
Speaker 1: His voice is all out of whack. He's got hair
on his.
Speaker 2: Like little lip and stuff like, I mean, I guess
I'm used to bitching, you know, girls, I guess.
Speaker 1: But Sonny's the sweet.
Speaker 2: One, Like why can't he be you knows Sonny Bunny? No, No,
not so much anymore.
Speaker 3: He just try calling him sunny Bunny and being like, Hi,
do any bunny, I do.
Speaker 2: What does he do? Does he bristle or does he No,
he doesn't. He doesn't mind when I call him that. No,
he just doesn't. He just he's he's not. He mean,
he's fine, still the same guy. But he just loves
to argue with his mother, that's all. Loves a nitpick.
Speaker 1: Does he do that without him?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yes he does, Yeah, yeah he does. He wants to
argue without him too, He just wants to He's The
thing is is this kid loves like he loves to talk.
He's got the talking Jean, and he wants to talk
about things in life and sports and politics and whatever
his little brain comes across. But then nobody wants to
argue and talk. I mean, he doesn't have his friends
to do this with. You know, he doesn't have even
like Natasian Hell John, Yeah, I know they should talk.
They should get on the phone because John likes to
tell me things all the time. Mm hmmm, even like
when I'm about to leave for here, right hey, Mark Meadows,
I don't totally Soon as you hear a specific name,
you know you're not getting out of there, and i'mer like,
oh a minute, God, that's just that's sunny like I
was talking to him last night and say good night,
and he was telling me I go. So he was
watching the game all day with Adam, and I said, said,
Jef fun watching the game, and blah blah blah. And
then he starts going into it like Patrick Mahomes this
and Tom Brady that and this, that, this.
Speaker 1: Guy's injured and then this guy.
Speaker 2: It's like I zone out and I just sometimes I
think to myself, oh my god, you're still talking.
Speaker 1: What have I been doing? Us five minutes in your bedroom?
Where'd I go?
Speaker 2: Then listening to what he's saying. I could sit there
and play Fortnite while he talks, and he wouldn't even well,
at least.
Speaker 1: Like him, he doesn't care. Adam.
Speaker 2: If I'm on the phone for one second, ah wait,
I'll wait to put the phone down, you know, and
then he has to stand and then I have to.
Speaker 1: Then it prolongs the agony of talking.
Speaker 2: You know. At least with Sunny, I can just put
on Fortnite, just zone out. Uh yeah, And I feel
like I feel like, you know, I can leave his
room at night and feel like I accomplished, you know,
look at me parenting listening to my son talk, well,
I play Fortnite now.
Speaker 1: Does Sunny still play Fortnite? Not as much? No, not really.
Speaker 2: He'll play with his cousins. He plays at the shit
out of that PlayStation, which he better because Xander's really
into it now. Fortnite, yeah, it comes in waves.
Speaker 1: I didn't play for a while now I just picked
it up again over the weekend.
Speaker 2: You did well because sometimes they have sometimes they have
these modes that I like and it's only for a
day or two and then it goes away again. Oh okay,
you can. You always play the game game, but I
like those special modes, special games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thanks Thanksgalen. All right, your parent now,
don't f it up.