<p>should i have it done before going to westpoing? doc says they can wait a year or two. comments, suggestions?</p>
<p>My dentist has been telling me to remove mine for 20 years now. All four in and going strong. Depends on whether there is room in your mouth for them to come in without "re-arranging the furniture".</p>
<p>Don't bother with them now, you can have them yanked here. Get it done on a Thursday, so you'll have Thursday, Friday, and the weekend to recover. Anaesthesia kills me, and I needed that time to recover.</p>
<p>i thought they dont do physicals?</p>
<p>how will they know?</p>
<p>? That you need your wisdom teeth pulled? There's a dental exam as part of the first three weeks of Beast. They'll check your teeth out and look for cavities while they fit you for your mouthguard. If you need to have them out, they'll tell you to come back in the fall.</p>
<p>If they need to be pulled I'm getting them out this month. I don't even know if I have them, but I guess I will find out. My teeth are in good shape, but I've never taken care of em. Suppose I am just lucky. Never brush em on a regualar basis or anything, but they are pearly (yellow when I haven't brushed em in a while) white and solid.</p>
<p>is there an eye exam during beast?</p>
<p>Not that I remember. There may have been a quick one of stand on the line, read the chart, great, thanks, but if you want a full up, dilated pupils, bright lights, puffs of air and everything, you're going to have to wait until the academic year starts</p>
<p>do they make you do that? or is it optional?</p>
<p>The full up one during the academic year? It's mandatory once a year, new Army policy. I wouldn't suggest refusing anything you're told to do during Beast.</p>
<p>what if you just dont go?</p>
<p>Then you're going to come up on the lists and deficient and you'll be written up. Do not blow off mandatory medical stuff. You'll be on the area, your COC may well be on the area, and you're still going to have to get checked.</p>
<p>what happens if they discover something in your eye that is disqualifying? will they kick you out?</p>
<p>Like what? If they can, they'll fix you instead. They've already expended a LOT of resources to get you there, might as well keep you. What did you do, scratch your cornea?</p>
<p>i didn't do anything. but what if a cadet got a tumor in an eye or something?</p>
<p>yeah i guess i'm a little paranoid. i really didn't think i could go to wp given my background, and i'm determined as hell to try to make the most of it. i've just been a screwup my whole damn life, i just wanna cover every base...</p>
<p>If you come down with a serious medical problem here at the academy, the docs are great, and they will do everything they can to help you out. If they think you've become uncommissionable, then you're sent before the medical board to see if it's true. Sometimes they send you home for a year, on full pay, to get better. Then you come back, and they reevaluate. If you're not commisionable, then they send you home permanently at the end of the semester. If the Army is the one that jacked you up, then you should prove that and get benefits from the VA, so hold on to your current medical record. ADA, stop running circles in your head. Come to West Point, do your best, and don't be shady. You'll be ok :)</p>
<p>you're up really late. je t'adore.</p>
<p>I just got back from TEE leave. I finished my finals on Wednesday, drove home for a day, dropped some stuff off, and came back. My sleep schedule is all out of whack, so I'm just going to stay up and be productive until tonight, and then I'm going to crash and hopefully shock myself back onto some semblence of a schedule before grad week kicks off on Monday. I still have to - pack, do my DIY move paper work, get my car weighed, change the oil, have the brakes looked at, do laundry, and send my greens to the cleaners. I also have hair appointments to book, and I need a manicure. I should put all my uniforms together for this week, and give away all the stuff I don't need anymore. I GRADUATE IN A WEEK!!!!</p>