We're officially $30 over $4000. So just another $970 an I'll have the braces paid for! Of course, it's the $10k worth of surgery needed one year into treatment that I'm really saving for. I've always figured I could scrimp along if it were just braces, but that surgery has always been the real roadblocker. Where the hell is a young person starting out on her own supposed to find $10-20,000 in one year? I don't know, but seeing how many people have donated already (thank you, thank you), I have hope that it can happen. At the very least, I'm able to sleep at night without my eyes popping open every fifteen minutes and my heart racing.
It'd be really great if I could get all of this, braces and surgery, done for $15,000, but I have fears that they're going to want to widen my upper palette, too (ow). I'm not going to know until I start. And I don't want to start until I know I can swing the bare minimum. And stopping half way is worse than not starting in this case.
I'm going to a different orthodontist for a second opinion on March 19th. So far the consensus has been that the correction will run $15-25,000, but I might as well check. Maybe they will know something I don't, like a school or a program for low-income folks. It can't hurt. (Well, it will cost $30 just to see them, so it hurts just a little bit.)
Okay, enough babbling! My mother came into town. I must go feed her corn bread.
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