What possesses anybody to be a dentist???? Or a gynaecologist for that matter? They are both very strange professions and i'm sure they must have some sort of pathalogical disorder.
Today I have to return to the dentist and I am really cross, cos I am reasonably anxious. And it started last night. And I don't feel too good. What is it about dentists? I didn't feel this bad when I went for my biopsy.
Last time I went for a check up he noticed that my already filled wisdom tooth had started to “leak” or something, and that some of the remaining “healthy” tooth had got some decay.
How does this happen? I clean my teeth at least twice, if not three times a day, I don’t eat sweets, well not everyday anyway. I’ve got some of that glittery two tone mouth wash that tastes of cloves. I love my teeth and hate the dentist, but still they do this to me.
Anyway, I am maybe a little justified about being anxious. When I originally had the tooth filled, it took over an hour. It was not pleasant to say the least. Since then my dentist (Fred) has retired and we have a nice young man (as my gran would say), who is terribly patient and very kind when I come in going I’m going to be sick. I need the toilet. Fill me now. (Written down that doesn’t sound very good. Maybe I should look at rephrasing that)
Anyway he is really nice, but keeps insisting that I might need an injection. So far he has done three lots of replacement fillings (nobody told me when I first started having them that you had to keep having them replaced. I thought a filling was for life, not just for Christmas). I haven’t had an injection for any and I’ve been fine (I hate needles. I hate injections. I hate waiting. In the ten minutes that it takes for an injection to kick in, he could have drilled out whatever he does and started filling the hole.)
However, having looked in the mirror today, I think I may just have to have one. It is very near the gum, and even I can see that this is not going to be comfortable without some pain relief. And if I flinch at a twinge, well that’s just going to be good by gum in a ****** mess isn’t, unless he is very quick at taking the drill away. And you are talking to the girl who decided to move her tongue across her mouth during her last filling, and wondered why her tongue bled.
I didn’t realise how bad it was actually. Since he told me he needed to do some work on it, I have avoided looking at that tooth in the mirror. I don’t know why. Probably some bizarre mentalist reasoning that if I don’t look it will get better / go away all together.
Anyway, I busied myself last night at work catching up with four weeks of book keeping, enough to send even the most wired person to sleep, I had no beer, but two hot chocolates instead. I went to bed listening to Megs relaxation CD and doing reikei on myself. I still managed to keep waking up, but I just kept putting the relaxation CD on. I think that I might take it with me today. Is there any reason why you can’t listen to a CD Walkman whilst having work done on a tooth? I’ve only go little ear phones that go in your ear? Hhmm
I have a campaign of action, which is to eat as much as I can manage this morning, as I know from experience I won’t be able to eat later, and will then be feeling ill cos I’m hungry, and I won’t be able to eat afterwards anyway.
I’m going to work, and have spent ten minute preparing my arsenal of survival gear - Bach flower remedy, charcoal tablets, peppermint tablets, lavender pulse point aromatherapy perfume, ditto for positivity and bravery, nut mixture, water, Walkman, extra batteries, CD, tissues, and just in case codine phosphate and propranol, some mints, and my JFDI t-shirt.
I have also decided that I am going to walk straight into the dentist, explain that I am really not looking forward to the filling, that I do not really want him to explain what he is going to do and why. Instead I would like to get on the chair thing, do NOT want my head lower than my feet, and would like him to inject the area he thinks will need an anaest
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