Well I went to the dentist as promised. It was not as good a visit as I had been hoping for. It turns out that I broke my tooth down below the gum line and it was not savable. So with just a local, the dentist grabbed my tooth with a pair of pliers and yanked it out. It took a full 20 seconds from start to finish. It took longer to give me all the shots to numb the thing up than it did to pull it out. Now I have a gaping hole in the very back of my mouth. Tomorrow I get to go back to the dentist to have the 1st of 4 legs of oral repair done.
The worst part of the whole visit was the anxiety. I am terrified about the dentist and by the time he was done I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Thankfully they noticed my intense anxiety and offered to give me a mild sedative for future visits. I find out tomorrow if it works. The only downside to taking this sedative is that I cannot drive myself to the appointment. That means that Melinda has to take the time off to drive me there and back. Bummer.
However, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing tomorrow. She got a little jealous of all the attention I was getting and decided to go ahead and break one of her teeth. I’m not kidding! It was the night before last and she bit down into a meatball and there was something hard in it, possibly a bone fragment or a tough piece of gristle, and her took just snapped. It broke the entire side of her tooth off. So she is not going to just have to sit there, she' gets to be a patient there as well.
So much excitement, so much drama, so much fun. But that’s a day in the life of Jasen and Melinda.
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