Yugo,
TY. I look back at myself after the accident and only now comprehend how impaired I was (STILL AM?!). Lingering stuff is minor. My hands shake. I sometimes stutter when what I want to say is very clear in my mind. I'm easily overstimulated, so lights and sounds bother me. The trauma surgeon gave me a referral to see a speech therapist. Their specialty is cognitive retraining after TBIs, but my insurance won't cover it, and it's too expensive for me to pay out of pocket
There's other stuff, but this support group has given me tools to deal with obstacles in ways that mean I don't perceive the small stuff as an urgent crisis anymore. Take care of today and tomorrow will take care of itself.
I did get my teeth fixed! A huge blessing. The fall broke my left front tooth (T9 for the dentists). Insurance denied covering a crown because only half of it broke off and that's not enough to justify a repair?! However, I'm currently extremely poor so have been riding the Medicaid train, and that made my medical bill a grand total of $18 out of pocket. $18!!!!! After I woke up in the middle of plastic surgery on my eye!
So I was NOT going to complain about them not covering the dental work. But then the dentist said don't worry, they will offer me a drastically reduced out of pocket cost for the crown. Less than 1/3 of the normal cost. So I asked my brother for help and shipped it. To say I am grateful would be putting it lightly.
There is a slight concern in that the trauma damaged the root. It has already deteriorated quite a bit. But there's no way to guess how far that will progress. It might stay the same now until I'm old. Or it might continue and in a few years it'll get loose, then the tooth will just fall out
No way to know though. We'll just cross that bridge if we come to it.
BGP,
TY!