Ok, if you want to see me cry, take me to the dentist.
My poor mom knows this more than anybody, I think. :)
I had my first cavity in a couple years filled today. I was dreading it, but being a mature, worldly girl that I am, I figure that I had grown out of my fear.
Ohhhh, so not so.
I was sitting back in the chair, and BAM! He didn't even warn me! One minnute he was numbing my gum with that vasiline stuff, the next I feel a prick and open my eyes to a saringe in my mouth!!! AHHH!!!!
After he was done, I told him he was tricky. That seemed to make his day.
Bastard.
Then, he LEFT me to go talk to some old lady who wanted every dark spot on her x-ray explained.
So there I was ,FREAKING out, slowly loosing feeling in my gum, and I don't know what hit me, but I started to cry.
Luckly, no one was around me.
However, when he came back in and started drilling, I started right back up again. After about a minnute, he stopped the drill, and told me I had to be still. That I was "shaking like a leaf," he called it. Well, it was scarry!!!
Then he had this vibrating thing he used before he filled the cavity, and then WHILE he was filling it, my other tooth had this "tooth trap" around it,and it was pinching my gum!!! Poor teeth. I bet it will hurt once the numbness wears off.
In the mean time, I can't eat till I can feel everything again, and I am hungry!!!
1 comment:
My last trip to the dentist (which was longer ago than I'd care to admit), I was crying, too. Needles don't really bother me--I get shots just fine--but this time was different. I didn't realize how far into the gums the needle went to numb you, and when it came back out, I saw it was covered (not dripping, but it was there) with my blood! Seeing my blood on the needle made me FREAK OUT. The nurse or whatever left me all alone for about 10 minutes, so by the time the doctor got in, I was mostly fine. But ohhhhh man, I am closing my eyes from now on!
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