I have a painful tooth that must come out (plea for help) [View all]

[TorchTheWitch]

For several weeks now I've had a rotting tooth causing me a lot of pain, but I've been out of work since the beginning of March, and I've used up what little I've been able to save for all these months of temp work. I'm down to my last $20 and last roll of toilet paper. I haven't been able to pay my landlord for four weeks now. Worse, the one temp agency where I'd been getting jobs since November hasn't had a damn thing for me. Of the eight of them I'm signed on with, they're one of two that has even been trying. Last week they had a job for me (another low pay idiot job, but so what) but they wouldn't give it to me because of this tooth. They won't give me ANY work until it comes out and I can give them a doctor's note that all is well.

The first thing I did when I finally figured out this pain was a tooth (it had been root canaled many years ago, and until recently I've not had any pain in or around the tooth) was call on the dental school in the city. This tooth has been a mess for a long time, and with most of it broken off and rotting away below the gum line they won't have a student do it. They'll do the work, but a regular oral surgeon will do it, and they want a lot more money than the private oral surgeon near me who pulled the last of my teeth for my upper denture. Even finding this out took over two weeks.

This has been a problem tooth for a very long time, and I've known for a few years that it isn't likely to come out in one piece which makes me scared to death of getting a dry socket. I've had that twice before in the distant past and NEVER want to go through that agony again. It's a possibility though. The gum has receded so much around that tooth I don't even think they could put in a stitch. But if there's still infection they won't anyway.

I've been on antibiotics for almost two weeks now, but they don't seem to be doing much of anything, and now my cheek is a little swollen in the area of this tooth. The antibiotics are also making a mess of my whole digestive tract.

My regular oral surgeon will do it ASAP as an emergency visit, but I HAVE to pay him first, and there just isn't any way other than begging for help to scrape up the money. It will cost at least $400 or $450 to get it out, and I don't know what else they might charge like for x-rays or whatever.

I so desperately need work and had hoped that any day I'd get something from one of these agencies but there's been NOTHING. They've sent me on a few interviews, but nothing ever came of them (these days you have to compete with their other temp workers and interview for temp jobs).

Please, please, if anyone can donate for me to get this damn tooth out and a little something for more antibiotics (I have only two days left of them, but I can get a refill) and some toilet paper, more Advil, gas for the car or whatever until I get money coming in again I will be so grateful. I've put off asking for help hoping a job would materialize, but it hasn't, and now the pain is so bad I don't think I could even fake my way through one. And now the only agency I've been getting any work from at all for months won't even talk to me until this tooth comes out and I'm "fit to work" again. Yoshi also has food for about 2 or 3 weeks and I have a little food stamp money left though it never gets me through the whole month.

I think my old gofundme account still works...

https://www.gofundme.com/slumlord-escape

And my paypal is:

[e-mail]

Btw, my internet is shit since we switched to Xfinity, so I hope I'll still be able to get back in here. It's not been too bad the last few days since the wind has calmed down. Still, sometimes I just can't stay connected or it times out trying to get anywhere.

After all these weeks and weeks of nothing a job just HAS to come up soon for me!

Thank you a million times for any help anyone can offer!