Letters to Dentists
By Scotty Weeks
I’ve decided to start sending unsolicited letters off to the email addresses of professionals. If I receive any responses I’ll be sure to post them. The following email was sent to a dentist surgery
Hi,
I am after dental information, see it’s been a long time—perhaps seven years since I’ve been to a dentist. I have just come off of a very long “bender” where I have been drinking during all waking hours for several days straight. During a bender it is not unusual for me to wake up in closets, alleyways, and super market store rooms. My clothes may be quite dirty and I am often savaged by young delinquent toughs. I was once stabbed in the leg with a screwdriver.
Now, when I’m not on a bender I won’t even touch the drink, I mean not even a glass of red with dinner. In fact I tend to skip beer and wine advertisements on television and cut out the alcohol ads from popular magazines, I keep them in boxes under my bed. I have six now. My psychiatrist says that I have mild Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, luckily it doesn’t seem to interfere in my day to day life.
While I am a generally healthy person and only go on these benders during paid leave from my job as an insurance adjuster I was feeling somewhat the worse for wear after a particularly well executed run. I remember waking up that afternoon having been thrown into a cardboard recycling dumpster the night before and noticing a large pool of blood around my face, smeared on the cardboard boxes. Shrugging it off I climbed out of the dumpster and made my way back to my house. I assumed that some rough bastards had beaten me severely.
Strangely enough though after I returned to my house and cleaned up I found no tell tale bruising around my mouth and I wasn’t sore at all. Could this be from a lack of vitamins?
-SDW
