This is just one of several sore subjects for me concerning growing up in the toxic cult known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
Health Care. Specifically, dentistry. For a little background, my parents studied in the mid-70's, and were baptized in 1982. I was born in 1979. My mother had obtained her RN license in 1971, and had good health care benefits. I always had my shots, exams, fluoride treatments, etc. However, one thing my parents refused to fix for me as a child were my crooked and turned teeth. Why should they waste the money, when "The End" was just around the corner? Why, my teeth would correct themselves into perfect alignment just like our bodies during the 1000 years of the New Order.
Guess how that dumbass attitude has worked out for me? Not well. Especially the last 10 years. See, your teeth will keep getting worse, moving, wearing, etc. Your over or under bite will worsen as well. Finally, at the age of 44 I've had enough. I provided braces for my own son years ago so he wouldn't suffer the same fate. Now, it's my turn damn it!!
I set the appointment with the Orthodontist. (same one my son went to) Got the xrays, got the 3D imaging inside of my mouth. The verdict? A minimum of 2 years of corrective Invisalign, paired with 5 minute per day ultrasonic treatment, and possibly a couple veneers for the 2 lower front incisors at the end of those 2 years. Hopefully, no extractions are necessary.
For anyone not familiar, Invisalign are custom made contoured trays that snap onto your teeth, and you switch them out every 5-7 days with a new pair. The move and align your teeth until all in place. However, they're a pain in the ass.
You have to take them out to eat, anything! Floss and brush before putting them back in. And if your teeth are bad like mine, it's kind of painful snapping them in and out. They epoxied little knubs to my teeth that they snap onto. They remain in all the time except to eat. The benefit is that you don't have metal wires, flossing is easy, and they are supposedly less painful. Oh, and they're clear so basically invisible.
I look at this way: I could do nothing and in 2 years my teeth would be worse. Or, I can do this and in 2, 2-1/2 years my teeth will FINALLY be straight, and my bite corrected. So what's a mere $7500?
All this bullshit, on TOP of the fact that my parents never taught me about proper nutrition or how to eat properly or exercise. WTF do that when "The End" is just around the corner? So what if I was 292 lbs by the time I was 30, and looked like the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man? I just fit in with half the Elder Body and looked at home in the Governing Body!!!
To that I say........FUCK YOU WATCHTOWER CULT!!!!
At 31, I decided I'd had enough. I got serious about "bodily training" and went full-in on the gym, got personal training, and then finally also hired a certified dietician who trained bodybuilders. I went from 292 to 172 lbs, and was 5% body fat for a time. I'm up to 210 for a few years, only because at 6'-1" I looked emaciated at 172 lbs and people asked me if I had cancer. At 190 - 205, I look like a mini-Hulk. I'm asked once a month when I'm out and about if I'm a PA State Trooper. (it's the hair cut and Ray-Bans as well) Don't even get me STARTED on that, because as a child I always wanted to be a Trooper or US Marshall. Of course, wasn't allowed in the JW's.
So my body is pretty decent at age 44, except for this crooked-ass teeth that have been hurting me sometimes when I eat, and also chipping because of the bite, etc. No more. FUCK YOU WT!!! In 2 years my teeth with be straight. "The End" might not be here but I'll at least have straight teeth, but you'll still be a greedy, pedo-protecting, CULT!!!
I only wish my parents were still alive to not only see my progression into a healthy adult, but also to see the absolute train-wreck and clown-show their religion has de-evolved into. At least my RN mother was POMO a couple years before she died. I salute her for ordering Ray Franz's books and reading them, and then passing them onto me! I'd also like to point out, that WT HQ didn't get one red cent of $300,000 I inherited from my parents estate. Not even 1 red cent. Take THAT, you selfish greedy FUCKERS!!