Help to get Teeth

Hi guys, I have been asked by a few friends to do a go fund me as people would like to help, in no way am I expecting the total of the target I just set it for what it will cost for the treatment.

 https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/excruciating-mortified-craig-loses-teeth-25619572 

So I know that this may sound pathetic to some people but having to deal with my situation is absolutely awful, I won’t lie I have been in crisis for a while now, I would not ever get to the stage that I would end things but it does pop into my head from time to time. I’ve needed to get some help from my mum, dad, family and friends recently & I can’t thank you enough.

I put up a tiktok video recently Tiktok video part 1 Tiktok video part 2 to do this video absolutely broke me. I am someone that can speak via text or email quite easily as the person sees the text & not me. I knew I was needing to do something, all I could think was I don’t want someone that is in the same situation as I that doesn’t have support not be able to stop themselves considering the going ahead with suicide.

To give you an explanation I was born without a cleft palate (roof on my mouth). I had surgery to correct this at 9months old. I have had speech therapy & other aspects that go alongside having a cleft. I had surgery in 2013 on my spine, my spine was fused & cages put into place to protect the spine from future damage.

Unfortunately the surgery has left me with chronic pain needing a wheelchair although I am able to walk a short distance with a walking stick.

Because of the pain I take quite a lot of medication including morphine, nerve blockers etc.

Two of the medications actually react with each other, this information is not in the patient leaflet nor was I given the information when I was supplied with the meds.

Because of the reaction I was noticing that I was getting some uncomfortableness in my teeth so went to my dentist, my dentist looked at my medications & informed me that they react together causing pain. We had booked to get some work done to help with the pain. Unfortunately the appointment was booked on the day that the restrictions were imposed for dental practices meaning that I was unable to have work completed.

During lockdown I got worse & worse day by day then 3 of my teeth just snapped exposing the nerve leaving the root in place. Over the rest of lockdown it just continued until I was able to visit my dentist again.

By the time I was able to visit the dentist I had only 4 teeth but they were in pretty bad shape also. My dentist told me what I already knew they would all need to be removed. I was very concerned that my cleft would make it difficult but I was reassured that there would be no problem whatsoever. 3 times I asked & each time I was told not to worry then when I went for my dentures they just would not stay in.

Mat this point I was informed that nothing further could be done.

I have been referred to the dental hospital but the response I got was there are a couple of tiny areas that the dentures would adhere to but there is no guarantee. Knowing how I feel if they are tiny areas at the rear then nothing would be holding them in place at the front.

I can’t explain how difficult it is for me right now, I have secluded myself because of the pain & embarrassment. I try not to look at myself because I just see the disgusting thing looking back. I had issues with my body anyway how I look etc & I am extremely careful what & how I eat. I have a huge issue with food but it’s getting worse, I cannot eat hard foods so I tend to eat a lot of soft foods & that’s mainly crap food.

I am fed up being stuck home unable to do much, I need to have something better in my life. I want to help people & give back to those that need help. If I can get the work needed I plan to work with our homelessness, starting in my local region but hopefully implement things in the UK. I believe that we have given up on our people that are living in awful conditions, people tend to treat the homeless as a person lower than low but we don’t know what they have done, why are they homeless? A lot of ex-servicemen that fought for our safety are just left & nobody cares. Where in the budget is the support for homelessness? Where is the security that our soldiers who cared for the UK?

I want to give back & a person I know from discussions he’s had or advice he has given one thing has been completely forgotten so he is showing how we need to think.

One hashtag it’s

#givewithouttake.

So that is what I want to do, my dream is to have a halfway house/ hostel that the homeless can call home for a short period whilst their accommodation can be found then support them back into a happy life.

There will be those that are happy where they are but there will always be a hot meal & a cuppa available for them.

Thank you for reading through this, please take a look at the video I done for TikTok.

This is the hardest part for me asking for help so here we go….

If you are able to help no matter how small I promise to give back.

Thank you

Craig. xxx