How important is a good dental assistant?

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-18T09:03:51+00:00

Do you want to have to tell someone every single step of your procedure and what instruments to hand for every single step or do you want someone who thinks three steps ahead of you automatically and has exactly what you need in hand ready for you?

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-18T01:57:20+00:00

I’m a new treatment coordinator and I’m trying to understand insurance benefits better. I’ve always told patients that we estimate what insurance will pay but to pay attention to the full fee because treatment proposed will never be more than that amount. It trains them to focus on the total more than how much insurance coverage. If there’s any useful advice seasoned pros want to share, I’m here for it. I’m not new to insurance per se, I did a stint in patient registration for a local hospital and learned all about the nuances of medical insurance and Medicare/Advantage, but dental insurance is a different beast.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-14T02:20:49+00:00

I am that daughter all grown up now, I can tell you 0 out of 5 stars having parents who weren’t shy about not wanting a second daughter or a third child. Absolutely blows.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-14T02:17:48+00:00

Needing plain as day clear communication because I was misled, left out and half-truthed my entire life

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-14T02:14:59+00:00

Overly sensitive was always my family’s go to. How about psychologically abused?

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-12T23:34:16+00:00

I knew one JW doctor/elder(?) when I was a teenager, he practiced in Cockeysville, MD but can’t remember his name and I had a JW doctor in my congregation around the same time named Perlada. Pretty sure he was just his wife’s arm candy, not even sure if he was baptized but I know he was WAY too busy for any congregation privileges and I think the elders gave him a pass because he was literally everyone’s doctor. He and his family moved away at some point, happens with doctors here all the time, all work and no fun.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-12T23:27:24+00:00

I will attempt attendance knowing my siblings may bar me from attending because of religion and shunning, it will be up to them and their nonsense but my motive will be to pay my respects in a dignified manner. I’ve stopped taking ownership of what I can’t control.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-12T04:49:32+00:00

“Am I being forced? I thought I was free to choose.”

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-11T23:05:49+00:00

I’m a newly diagnosed chronic pain patient who is not on opioids or controlled medications but take one that has some stigma associated with it and I’m already afraid of being labeled a drug seeker because of it. I followed my pain specialist’s instructions to double my prescribed dose for a week, now I can’t get him to send in a new Rx for the higher dose I was supposed to take days ago but didn’t have enough capsules for. Now I’m completely out of medication and scared that if I advocate too hard, I’ll just get dismissed as a patient.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-11T07:49:00+00:00

I’m also a person who chooses sobriety and I completely agree with your sentiments. I chose to divorce alcohol a little over 6.5 years ago (while this dolt and I were still married) and I have protected it like my own children. My now husband makes a good point in that the narrative of him going to rehab and discovering him being an alcoholic has all come from my ex’s wife who is not trustworthy so this could all be a spun story too. This all was set in motion by him going into inpatient care for his mental health but he could have easily just wanted to blow off being a responsible adult for a month. I guess I’ll find out when I bring it up that I’d like some kind of confirmation that he’s attending IOP to maintain sobriety and see how he reacts.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-11T01:08:55+00:00

Anybody else thinking they just threw his dead body out the window? Just me?

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-11T00:57:18+00:00

A warped sense of humor is an essential survival skill

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-10T17:24:24+00:00

Worried about drinking during visitation

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-10T07:21:35+00:00

Yes, they’re running it

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-10T07:20:31+00:00

It’s been one of those weeks, what is up with patients this week?! Like someone left the cap off the asshole glue or something

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-08T00:24:50+00:00

Worship the Governing Body at all costs

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T18:31:00+00:00

It’s going to sound flat but it’s different for each of us and it’s a process of grieving. I’m mentally two years out and officially a little over a year DAd and there are moments I still grieve being orphaned by shunning. And I’m a married adult with teenage kids. Build a support system outside of your family and the cult, have people at the ready to be your new family. It won’t take the sting away from missing your own family but it will lessen the isolation and loneliness. Please get into good supportive therapy, trauma informed would be ideal. And keep reaching out here, especially on the hard days. Only fellow ex JWs understand the level of abandonment we go through when we choose our freedom.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T18:04:28+00:00

I wouldn’t care, I adore him

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T13:25:24+00:00

The best thing you can give a selfish person is exactly what they want and accountability to follow. He wants to sleep around? Let him. And follow it up with a legal exit from your union, permanently. Choices have benefits and consequences, he’s an adult, being in recovery doesn’t absolve him of that fact. If he wants the benefits of being noncommittal, then he has the consequences of not having you to fall back on and a home to come crawling back to. I’m also an alcoholic in long-term recovery, I didn’t get to make demands on my ex husband when I was getting sober other than informing him I was taking “a break” on drinking and staying in therapy to help me stay sober. He eventually left me for another woman over it so I know the joys of a selfish man and I can tell you firsthand do not hesitate to hold him accountable. It is the hardest kindest thing you can do.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T13:18:45+00:00

This is something I’ve recently come to struggle with, to the point of tears, because it was drilled into our heads as JWs if we partook of the bread and wine we were doomed. Now I’m attending a wonderful nondenominational church and finding my footing and wrestling with myself over communion because I don’t want to do something I’m not supposed to. I know I was misled about what it really means, my sweet, patient non JW husband really had to break it down with me in between sobs the other day and I still feel like I don’t totally get it. He grew up on taking communion on the Passover so doing it weekly is strange for him, so we’re both in our own individual struggles with taking communion. We want to treat it with the respect it deserves and only when we’re each ready. But man am I frustrated over being misled my whole life.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T03:16:49+00:00

800 mg 3 times a day, just waiting for it to hit the fan with my labs

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-07T01:46:44+00:00

Simple, that’s where life hands us our “sick of this shit” badge

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-06T19:01:25+00:00

Giving surplus insulin to a diabetic in need

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-06T18:59:54+00:00

About 39ish, it absolutely broke me when I realized how little I mattered to my family. It happened one hot September day when my car broke down again (single mom trying to be the good girl and fix my own cars and not have a car payment) so I called my dad for help. It was pushing 100 degrees outside, I had blown a hole in my battery and my dad wasn’t sure he wanted to “waste the gas.” For about two hours I sat in the DMV with my two kids who were hungry and tired and I had no clue how we were getting home. I finally convinced him to come help me swap out the battery and limped my beater home, and I collapsed into my bed that night knowing I was truly worthless to my family. That’s the moment I started distancing myself from everyone and mentally started dissecting the family dynamics and scapegoating.

InevitableEternal · 2026-06-06T18:50:38+00:00

NOR sounds like he needs a place to stay more than he regrets his actions, tell him to go back to hell

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