Friday, 30th May 2003
Numb
I've just come back from the dentist who has given me a new filling. Before he started, though, he managed to ask one of the most unnecessary questions I've ever heard: "Would you like me to numb it for you?"
Oh, no thanks, I'm just dying for you to drill into my tooth with no anaesthetic after I saw the dental torture scene from Marathon Man yesterday. (One of the only scenes in a film to actually make me cry out and look away from the screen.) Fire away.
So I currently can't talk properly and I'll have to wait another hour to eat lunch. And I keep trying to sing along with Winamp and stopping abruptly as I remember why I shouldn't be singing at the moment.
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maybe he was giving you the option to numb it yourself? if it was a private practice, you might have saved yourself a fiver? ;)
just about the only good thing about the experience of having teeth extracted is the short time afterwards in which you can flare only one nostril. [provided you can flare both ordinarily.]
Ouch! May you recover quickly and never have to go to the dentist again.
You know, my mum never gets anaesthetic, because she has a really high tolerance for pain, and she *hates* the numb feeling. I didn’t inherit her pain threshold but I do hate the numbness, and I always get paranoid that I’m accidentally going to bite a big hole in my cheek and not notice because it’s numb...
My last experience with the numbness left me on the verge of tears. I hadn't realised that I would need the pain killing ness, and even when I was told i was going to need "an injection" I didn't appreciate what it meant. Slowly losing control over your face is one of the most horrible experiences ever. Especially when your trying to smile at the cute baby in the waiting room that's looking at you with googly eyes and you can't get ay expression to form on your face *shudders*. Never again thankyou.
p.s. sorry for the atrocious spelling...
Okay, it seems like I'm one of the only people to appreciate having no feeling in my gum when painful things are done to it... maybe my dentist doesn't use as much anaesthetic as yours does, Clair, because it was only my lower cheek and the right side of my lip that was affected. Oh, and some of my tongue as well, which made swallowing interesting for the first hour or so.
Gosh this is going to make it interesting if you show up at the Swan Inn today...
I am Cathy's secret admirer.
Wow, a secret admirer... I'm blushing :)
Unfortunately my parents have ruled that I'm not allowed to go, on the frankly ludicruous basis that the two A-level exams I have coming up this week are more important than a meet-up... can you believe that?
Maybe next time :(
Oh I was just trying to emulate one of the characters in one of my favorite books... everyone should read it.
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