I have a few things to say about plastic surgery.
First- STACIE- you need to contact medicaid in your state and fight for the removal of your teeth due to the potential for endocarditis and other infections. This is not a dental issue, this is a medical issue. If you still cannot get this done, you need to call a University based hospital where they have a dental resident program. Call the nearest hospitals until you find a dental program. Ask if they have a dental clinic- that's what you need. Ask for the head of the program, and write or email that person directly. Show them pictures of your teeth, and explain that you have a potential for endocarditis from this. Teaching hospitals with dental programs are interested in rare and different cases, and hopefully you will find one that will take your case. As far as other things, have you gotten a case worker with the county where you live? You need to find all the resources you can get to get yourself back on your feet. Sign up for housing, sign up for anything and everything you can get. Career link, food stamps, heating assistance etc etc. anything, but you need somebody to help guide you through the system, and that's a case worker. have you gotten help from MHMR for your child? call the local county office and ask for the number.
SECOND- I have had plastic surgery. rhinoplasty and abdominoplasty. it was the worst mistake ever. It is extremely painful, they don't tell you about the lifelong problems you will have from this, or the potential problems. when they cut off all that extra skin you are worried about, they pull and cut and sew. when I scratch my belly button area, I feel it about 6 inches down. Most of my mid abdominal area is numb, and apparently will be forever. Because of the extreme disruption of my lymphatic system due to the cutting, pulling and reattaching, my upper body does not get rid of fluid the way it should. This has resulted in my chest growing about 3 sizes, my arms looking like a dock worker when I always had thin arms, and my blood pressure increasing. I have horrible heartburn due to the work they do during the surgery- which I never ever had in my life. do you know that for about 4 weeks after a tummy tuck, you can't even stand up straight because of the pulling and cutting they do? at 3 years post op my abdomen still hurts daily. now my rhinoplasty. after the first one- I couldn't breath through my nose. they collapsed the inside of my nose by taking out too much bone. after 2 years- they redid the rhinoplasty telling me that I would be able to breath after this procedure. well I can't. one nostril is bigger than the other, my family literally laughs at my nose at the dinner table, and I did this to look better? they do not, and I repeat, do not tell you about how painful these procedures are, and how awful they are. I now consider it legalized maiming of women because of all the surgeries being done. think 300 times before you do this.
