We had just a week between my adult foster son's stage 4 diagnosis and immunotherapy starting (which, don't get me wrong, I'm really happy it's happening soon) but god I wish I'd known that a dental check was so important before the treatment starts.
I managed to get him in today (Monday), with treatment starting tomorrow (Tuesday), and explained the situation to the receptionist. She was brilliant, really caring and understanding, exactly as I expected because I've been going there a couple of years now and they've always been great. She said they'd do any treatment on the same day, she'd extended the appointment.
But when we got into the appointment with the dentist - not one I'd ever seen before and not one I'd care to see again - he was so cold and awful. He snapped at us that it was only a checkup and "no dentist would do work on the same day" - I'm SURE I've had fillings done, at least? Thank god, the lad didn't need any treatment, but I can't stop thinking about the "what if", what if he'd needed it and I couldn't have got it for him? And I told him that I had it sorted, that he would be okay. I feel like I let him down. I trusted that dentist, and they could have left us right up the creek.
I feel like I fail that boy every five minutes lately
