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The Wisdom (Teeth) of Adulthood

I had just had ‘one of those weeks’ at work. There was nothing really bad about the work week (luckily it wasn’t one of THOSE weeks), but I was on the heels of large event that our agency was organizing and that resulted in many late nights in the office. Some nights I tiptoed into my house at midnight, using the light of my iPhone (so as not to wake my sleeping beau) to help me find pajamas in my dark bedroom. Yep, it was one of those weeks.

It was also a week that I had a toothache. It started as a dull ache, near the back of my bottom left jaw. It was that kind of nagging ache, rooted deep in my tooth, which could be minimized by throwing back a few Advil. My busy days in the office didn’t have time for the ache, and I didn’t think much of it after the Advil took hold. My ‘work adrenaline’ was on high, and my bandwith already too full to worry about a tooth ache.

The event came and went successfully, but as I drove home from the event that Friday night, I realized I had taken 12 Advil that day to manage this pain in my tooth, which had grown from an ache to a persistent and acute throbbing.

When I went to bed that night, the pain was so intense that I could not fall asleep. I took two Aleve this time, half of a valium that I had left over from my recent international trip, and willed myself into a numbed sleep.

When I woke up on Saturday my face was swollen. In fact, my left cheek was so swollen that I couldn’t open my mouth very wide. But what was extremely troubling on this day was my left neck gland was so swollen that I couldn’t turn my head. Slowly, I began to panic as a startling realization swept over me: I did not have insurance….
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Coming Up: Adulthood and the Uninsured

Hi everyone,

Sorry I have been MIA for a while. After my dog bite, I had another traumatic medical incident. In the haze of the subsiding pain and antibiotic cloudiness, I had an idea for an interesting entry that I think may add another nuance to our ongoing conversation of adulthood.

Stay tuned.

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Wordless Wednesday: Adulthood is Risky

Notes on Adulthood: October 04

Everyday we learn something. That is how we grow! Here is what I learned this week.

1. Freelancing = hustling.

2. When friendships feel like work, you’re not doing it right.

3. The best part of being a food writer is getting free dessert(s)!!!

What about you? What did you learn this week?

-Morgan