The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

OK, the guy who hit our car. We got quotes at the garages he recommended but he is obviously finding it too much so is no longer offering to pay. What option do I have but to go to my insurance company, pay the excess and wait for them to recover it from his insurance company?

You can issue a claim very easily using MCOL. Get your car repaired and sue for all your costs. That’s the MSE way to deal with it.

ukmaggie45

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ivyleaf

Ooh, thanks for the tip, Maggie! I'll let OH know too.

SingleSue

Got a stressy day today, James is going in to have an operation (4 x wisdom teeth removal under GA), already been cancelled once as the anaethetist was not happy and ordered further cardiac tests. Any operation is risky but a dental procedure for someone with EDS is right up there for risk, especially as he has cardiac involvement and an unrelated heart murmur.

To give an idea of how risky it is, no dentist will touch him for even a filling, let alone an extraction (or 4!). The most they will do is look in his mouth and then refer him to the hospital if any treatment is needed....

Joe is also coming home for the weekend tomorrow...he is missing the cat.

Pyxis

SingleSue wrote: »

Got a stressy day today, James is going in to have an operation (4 x wisdom teeth removal under GA), already been cancelled once as the anaethetist was not happy and ordered further cardiac tests. Any operation is risky but a dental procedure for someone with EDS is right up there for risk, especially as he has cardiac involvement and an unrelated heart murmur.

To give an idea of how risky it is, no dentist will touch him for even a filling, let alone an extraction (or 4!). The most they will do is look in his mouth and then refer him to the hospital if any treatment is needed....

Joe is also coming home for the weekend tomorrow...he is missing the cat.

That sounds difficult, Sue.
Presumably they are impacted, are they? Otherwise I'm assuming they'd do them under a local.

Not relevant at all, but I had my four impacted ones removed under GA when I was about 19. They weren't causing me any trouble, but in those days, it was recommended that they be removed in case they caused problems later.... abcesses, etc. Nowadays, I believe they don't remove them unless they are problematical or likely to be for that particular individual for some other health reason.

ukmaggie45

Just found that FMP is doing free access to military stuff too, it started yesterday, until sunday.

Sorry didn't let you know sooner, have some sort of infection so spent nearly all day yesterday asleep.

Pyxis

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just found that FMP is doing free access to military stuff too, it started yesterday, until sunday.

Sorry didn't let you know sooner, have some sort of infection so spent nearly all day yesterday asleep.

Hope you're feeling a bit better today, Maggie. :A

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Just found that FMP is doing free access to military stuff too, it started yesterday, until sunday.

Ah, I'd not spotted BOTH are doing it - I'd seen flashes of adverts saying "free" but hadn't twigged I was seeing different adverts for different sites. I'll go and check out FMP today then.

Cheers.

SingleSue

Pyxis wrote: »

That sounds difficult, Sue.
Presumably they are impacted, are they? Otherwise I'm assuming they'd do them under a local.

Not relevant at all, but I had my four impacted ones removed under GA when I was about 19. They weren't causing me any trouble, but in those days, it was recommended that they be removed in case they caused problems later.... abcesses, etc. Nowadays, I believe they don't remove them unless they are problematical or likely to be for that particular individual for some other health reason.

Any extraction, even a simple one, has to be under GA as a local doesn't work for quite a few with EDS, before his diagnosis he had to have some dental work as a door came flying back into his face and caused damage, he had 8 injections with no effect...and then got an infection in the injection sites (one of the dangers of EDS and dental work) and ended up in hospital quite ill. There are also issues for those with EDS around excessive bleeding and poor healing.

But yes, they are impacted and causing issues elsewhere within his mouth, he'd had left them well alone otherwise.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Not relevant at all, but I had my four impacted ones removed under GA when I was about 19. They weren't causing me any trouble, but in those days, it was recommended that they be removed in case they caused problems later.

They nicked mine, again under GA, when I was about 14/15 I think - I don't think it was O-Level year so was at least the year before.
In my case it was because they suspected that they would impact and push the other teeth forward, particularly since my inner two top incisors were already slightly behind the outer two - and still are but have given me no trouble.

The main thing I remember about it wasn't so much coming out of the GA but the "meal" they gave me for breakfast - dunno if it was a result of the op or the GA, or was the standard fare at the time. Scrambled Egg on Toast was what they said it was - seemed more like suede on leather, certainly in texture