If you give a man in pain a keyboard...he's going to type some shit...badly

 As a human...

I discuss this with only the hope of helping someone 

make a decision

for the better. 

For years

I have had tooth 

and gum issues. 

A minute after brushing my teeth 

I could eat and drink anything

with no change in what it was supposed to taste like

since I was about 13. 

All my relatives smoked or chewed

I think

but I had an Aunt that died

because her teeth went bad

and it turned to cancer

at least that is how it was explained

as I remember it

when I was young

( It was a closed casket)

I didn't smoke or chew

(but I was around it my WHOLE life)

never did it

never did any narcotic

Anyway, teeth and gums are in quite the disarray

very painful, sometimes

apparently, many are all to be removed

because the same infection destroying the teeth

also destroys the heart (?)

and I, unfortunately, am looking at an aortic aneurysm

an aortic root, and aortic valve  replacement ( born with bicuspid valve?) , repair

or whatever, 

many or all of my teeth removed by executive order, 

oh....and a pacemaker

because, they find, the heart doesn't respond well 

after they chop it off and replace it with....

Anyway...I carried forward the pain and incredible expense of my horrible teeth

by chewing garlic ( a painful but effective and powerful antibiotic that I have dared others to try) and cashews( same story, different reason), 

It worked well for decades

But in the end...

I still wouldn't have paid a dentist the extortion rates they were charging in the 90s. (tens of thousands) 

Fuck experts. Don't pay for their shingle. Die with some dignity.