so, my dentist adventure wasn't too exciting, but i'll blog about it anyway. so, i first went to my dentist several weeks ago after being recommended to his office by several of my coworkers. and by "several" i mean, like 6 or 7. it is on the 5th floor of our building which is quite convenient. when i got there, i was shocked. none of these coworkers, who are all females, mentioned the fact that the dentist is young and attractive. maybe that's not noteworthy in portland where everyone seems to be artsy or attractive. but my dentists have always been middle-aged, kind, and parental (cue the SNL theme song to "Middle Age Man!"), so it's worth noting.
so my attractive dentist gave me two shots in my jaw and the bottom of my mouth wasn't really getting numb. i came in paranoid because the last filling i got was in spokane and i could actually feel the drilling through the novacane. so i was a little leery and told my attractive dentist about this and asked how numb i was actually supposed to feel. my lip didn't feel numb, so i had to get a third shot to numb myself up. i was still terribly nervous, which is weird because i have had a ton of work done on my mouth, metal shoved in, wires sticking out, etc., but that last filling really threw me. so at one point, attractive dentist said "can you feel that" and when i said a sort of huh-uh, he said, "you can relax your fingers then". i am a totally high-strung dental patient now.
all this happened and made me forget i even was getting over a cold, so i didn't even think about coughing. i'm sure my muscles were so tense in my throat that a cough wouldn't even have been able to come out.
so, my mouth was numb until 1pm that day and today my jaw is still sore. lucky me!
1 comment:
I feel your pain. I had a similar sort of thing with a filling last summer which eventually had to be taken out in January for a rip roaring good time - aka a root canal.
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