Ohmygosh!!


I just had the root canal.

My mom lied about how easy they are. It WAS as BAD as I thought it was going to be. Maybe a little bit more.

The novocaine didnt numb me up quite to the point where the dentist (and I) wanted it to be at. My ear is numb (inside) and feels weird and itches and everything else seems to be numb, but that tooth is a little flaming ball of pain. The infection wouldnt let a lot of the novocaine thru to the nerve. She gave me the total amount of novocaine allowed and it still hurt!

I'm just going to curl up into a fetal ball and cry now.

I know why I'm claustrophobic now. My childhood dentist when I was 4 or 5yrs old had put fillings in my baby teeth, and he used to use the rubber dams and he'd use the big clamp thingies to keep my mouth open...and he'd tie me down to the chair. This was probably around 35 years ago, before parents started to accompany their kids into the rooms with the dentist.

When the dentist pulled out that dental dam and was getting ready to put it on the tooth, I had an actual flashback to when I was little at the quack dentists office. I'm actually shaking, and it was all because of that stupid piece of rubber.

At least this dentist didnt tie me down. But, that rubber dam just triggered one heck of a memory for me.

Well, now at least I'm pretty sure why I'm claustrophobic. Wish that quack dentist was still alive so I could go smash all his teeth in.

ok, time to go curl up into that fetal ball in the corner and cry.