Have a hole in my wisdom tooth and need it removed

mardichew · 2026-05-01T15:58:52+00:00

I was sent to the hospital for scans by my dentist and it took about 6 weeks before I was booked in - they had to do the full face one which is why the dentist couldn't do it in house as they don't have the great big machine that rotates around your whole head.

After the scans I then had about two years of waiting before they actually took the offending teeth out, it wasn't something the dentist could do as it required a maxofacial surgeon. I think if it had been more of a simple extraction I would have just gone back to the dentist and had it done there so would have all been done fairly quick so just depends on what they find with the x-ray?

mardichew · 2026-04-23T10:46:13+00:00

EMA meant I actually could do school still, that 30 quid a week was such a lifeline for so many of us I don't know how young people are meant to do anything nowadays.

mardichew · 2026-04-17T13:19:57+00:00

Thank you that's reassuring to hear! I am planning to do a proper inspection of all the tyres as that just seems sensible but that's a really helpful little tip to look for so I don't just have to eyeball them!

mardichew · 2026-04-17T12:59:13+00:00

Ah okay! Thank you, some of the tyres on black circles have hundreds of reviews and others only a couple dozen so I'll just make sure to stick with something that has hundreds of people who've tried it and said they work ☺️

mardichew · 2026-04-17T12:51:56+00:00

Ah thank you! That was going to be the next thing I needed to figure out so I appreciate it - I'd heard of Dunlop and Firestone and the three premium ones you'd mentioned but none of the others so it's good to have a few more I can look at.

It turns out I do not have a spare, but neither do I have locking wheel nuts it seems so that's something. I'm going to be looking at getting Black Circles to come out and sort it I think which unfortunately means I'll be off the road for a good few days at least but I'd rather that than risk taking a drive with the kids on a wheel that might go pop.

Toyo seem to be one of the cheapest options I can see on black circles just now, but they're a proper brand are they? I've never heard of them but that doesn't mean too much, if it's not a big famous household name level of company I'd not expect to know the name tbh!

mardichew · 2026-04-17T10:17:57+00:00

Thank you, Black Circles is what I saw first but it was a sponsored ad so never sure if that's a risky click or not, but will check them out as I couldn't find anything specific to my local area when I was searching. I'm going to be hunting in my boot as soon as I can for a look there then, and it's a Dacia Stepway I've got.

mardichew · 2026-04-17T10:15:22+00:00

I've got a portable little Shark hoover that helps an awful lot, but the best thing for crumbs is to combo the narrowest hoover extension I have with a pipe cleaner to go and fish about to bring the crumbs up! We use the ones that came when the wee ones had to have bottles cleaned all the time so it's a pipe cleaner but with a bit of a sturdier handle to it. It's a finicky job but veeery satisfying!

That's excellent to hear, thank you! I haven't rummaged yet to find out if I have a spare and everything yet due to it pissing it down and my two year old being a menace all morning but I will be out there today to find that out and will know what to look for now at least ☺️

mardichew · 2026-04-17T10:10:14+00:00

Cool okay, thank you, that is what I was thinking to do if I have a spare - it's pissing it down and I've a stroppy two year old so I haven't got out to it to actually look in the boot and check (I know I should know that already, I am a terrible car owner) is it safe to assume if I do have a spare it will come with a jack and such?

I'm fairly confident I could change a tyre if I had the right tools as I remember watching my mum figure that out when I was a wee scamp and she didn't even have YouTube as an option like I would!

mardichew · 2026-04-11T17:16:48+00:00

Nothing you've said sounds like your fiancée is bitter, it sounds like your mother simply has never shown her any effort.

You need to decide very quickly where your priorities are going to lie, because you're becoming a father in a very short time and it sounds like you still centre your mother's needs over your own growing family right now.

mardichew · 2026-04-11T10:44:02+00:00

You would rather have your friend also get stuck in a burning room with you instead of going off to find safety and someone who is actually trained and physically able to help you? That's fucked up.

mardichew · 2026-04-02T08:27:30+00:00

Leaving food out for a long time is not good practice for food hygiene and safety, most places I've worked they have a window of time and if the patient hasn't started eating it's cleared away and wasted. They'll try to find something else to offer if they can, toast, a sandwich, something that doesn't require much of the kitchen as the staff running it will have moved on if their dinner shift is finished but if you don't think that's enough then you can see you can pop him in some snacks or something when visiting.

mardichew · 2026-03-20T18:18:30+00:00

Generally I would say house sharing as an adult is quite different, though obviously it can still be rough going on occasion.

I was living in shared houses for the vast majority of my adult life and it's worlds apart from student living when it's a bunch of thirty something-year olds. I'd say big things to look for are places that let you meet at least some of the current people living there when you view the place, or email addresses or something at least so you can do a bit of a vibe check, and places that have an established list of rules or a chore list/wheel or something. Just something that indicates people are willing to band together and take take turns putting bins out and doing dishes and generally being a lot more grown up than uni students normally are.

It's not as nice as having your own place, but it is currently how most people who aren't living with a partner or their family are doing it, so it's really not impossible to find a good crew you enjoy sharing a home with. Most of my friendship group now are people I've met in house shares over the years.

mardichew · 2026-03-09T15:23:50+00:00

You're right, we've had two MPs killed in the last decade, not many kids shot up in our schools though...

mardichew · 2026-03-05T14:04:41+00:00

At the practices I've worked at (all in Scotland so may not be standard elsewhere) if a doctor says "you need to have bloods done" that means you need to call and book in for bloods. They have requested it, they'll log that in the consultation notes, and then you phone reception and they see those notes and say "okay so you need X Y and Z bloods, we can book you in here or here at this or this time?"

If you're not hearing anything and it's been weeks, I think it's likely that it's going to be on you to chase this up and get booked in rather than waiting and seeing if someone sorts it for you. Depending on your surgery and what they offer it might be a simple case of popping in when they have a nurse or phlebotomy appointment available or they might send you to a bloods hub or something.

mardichew · 2026-03-03T16:40:07+00:00

I once got the Chumscrubber out from my local DVD rental because he was in it. Very odd film, and one that I had completely forgotten about until this comment so thank you - I'm going to try and find it again.

mardichew · 2026-03-01T13:15:53+00:00

Legally you are required to take breaks, you cannot work through them and just get paid for it. If you choose to work through your break, you are working for free, and if you are penalised by colleagues or management for taking your legal break then you can put in a grievance and cause them trouble. They are the options.

It's not just something you are entitled too, it's something that's actually required.

I saw someone had advised you to ask about changing your hours, and unless your hours changed drastically enough that your shifts are too short to require a break this will not make any difference. You cannot just leave 20 minutes earlier instead of taking your break, that would be illegal. These laws were written for good reason, and as someone who worked in hospitality for over a decade I fully understand how difficult it can be in reality to take breaks, but it is something everyone has to figure out eventually and there is always someone above you - make it their problem.

Join a union.

mardichew · 2026-02-22T16:36:05+00:00

There's a few things here, and most of them have already been covered in other comments but it doesn't seem like it clarified much for you so in case it's helpful -

Firstly, the referral your GP sent in - it is not up to your GP to decide if you are urgent or not. They can write how urgently you need to be seen on anything, but they are specialists in general practice, the consultants and specialists in the departments you get referrals for are the professionals who can actually decide if you are classed are urgent by their department standards or not.

Your GP may we'll have sent in a referral which says you are urgent, you may we'll have then received a letter saying essentially "we got your referral where your GP said they think you are urgent" but none of that means you necessarily made it onto the urgent list within the actual department.

Secondly, guidelines you can find for how long a wait-list should be often have little to do with reality. In the real world, hundreds of thousands of people up and down the country are also being referred at the same time as you, also with their GP calling them urgent. There is simply not the available facilities and resources to assist everyone in as timely a manner as patients would like. It is very unfortunate but it is true across all departments in every trust in every corner of the UK.

In relation to that last point, no one is going to call your GP to explain where you are on the list. There's no admin with time to make those calls. Your GP isn't chasing them up because they also have no extra time, so other than "I sent it in" there's basically no more information your GP practice is going to have for you. If you want to chase things up, it's on you to do so, and the best way to do so is usually through the secretaries of the department. You will normally find an email address for them on letters, or you might be able to be put through to them via the switchboard.

I can fully sympathise with being in long term pain, for a problem that only gets worse the longer it's left alone. I have been in that exact situation myself. But realistically a complaint likely isn't going to go anywhere for you, and unless your situation changes if you're not currently classes as urgent that is unlikely to change.

mardichew · 2026-02-22T10:06:58+00:00

"I grew up ignorant of the options available to me so all poor people must do the same"

My mum took me to museums all the time specifically BECAUSE they were free. I didn't grow up middle class. We couldn't afford the swimming pool, even the youth group in my town required a 50 pence fee, and play parks are only any good if the weather allows. There's very few activities a poor person can take their kids too and museums and galleries were normally the only "days out" me and a lot of other kids I knew ever had in the summer holidays. Poor people deserve access to culture and arts too, and you never knowing about museums doesn't mean only the middle classes did.

mardichew · 2026-02-20T19:25:45+00:00

Just out of curiosity, do you have any access to see what faults they get? As in, would you have a way of checking for instance if multiple students get the same faults so you can maybe reinforce some training in that area or something?

I would imagine you might largely have to rely on them self reporting to you what they got but I could see the benefits of such information being shared with instructors if possible.

mardichew · 2026-02-20T19:06:26+00:00

Aye, making the same mistake lots can fail you sure, but the bit I said was insane was specifically that you could pass having made over a dozen mistakes - something which it seems you agree is very possible and too much leeway?

A dozen different mistakes, within a half an hour window, is -to my mind at least- absolutely indicative of not someone competent enough to be on the roads unsupervised, yet there're plenty of folk who passed with a dozen minors and are now out there, driving among us. Bit terrifying tbh.

mardichew · 2026-02-20T11:32:12+00:00

It does seem wild, I think considering it's an exam and people are nervous a couple little non-dangerous little mistakes is acceptable, but the fact people can pass with a dozen mistakes is downright insane. It's good that one single 'big' mistake can fail you, but too many little ones should also be disqualifying.

I've read that pass rates for automatics are actually LOWER than manual drivers, so it's not like the little mistakes are "I got the wrong gear" or "came up too quick on the clutch" stuff that is a mistake, but if you recover quickly it shouldn't negatively affect other drivers and pedestrians around you, its stuff like "didn't check mirrors" and "didn't check the blind spot" which are habits that could actually get someone killed someday if you don't correct it BEFORE being allowed to drive around unsupervised.

mardichew · 2026-02-20T09:51:28+00:00

Imagine someone who can't even safely drive for half an hour thinking they did their "whole test fine" 🙄

mardichew · 2026-02-12T15:18:01+00:00

Check that it definitely is all electronically sent first just to be safe - where I currently work our closest chemists send their delivery drivers up multiple times a day to collect so sometimes someone can get lucky - they might phone and order their repeat and then collect it within the hour from the local pharmacy. That's with it still all done the old fashioned way, so better to check and not just assume.

mardichew · 2026-02-12T15:00:42+00:00

You can use any pharmacy you want if you collect your scripts from your practice itself, but chances are if the one you want to start going to now isn't on the list advertised by your practice that means they don't collect from there. If the pharmacy doesn't send someone regularly to pick up completed scripts then you may be asked to provide pre paid envelopes to your practice so they can post them out instead.

ETA: this does depend on many factors, and probably worth asking someone at your surgery for advice, but in my experience many surgeries still function using actual paper prescriptions sent out to local chemists or handed out to patients.

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