Thursday, August 16, 2007
Tuesday's toothday
I went to my dentist on Tues, whining about the pain caused by the ulcer and Aidan was like, "Are you free? I can remove it for you now". And I was like, "NOW?!?" And he went, "Ya, now"...in the typical nerdy doctor tone. So I was like "Erhm, oookkkkk......Give me 5 mins to recollect myself." Then I headed to my office, drank some water, went to the toilet, said a short prayer and slumped back on the dental chair.Shortly after, his friendly nurse Jia came in with a cotton bud coated with a lump of cream. I must say that it really helps when nurses are friendly.
"Erhm, what's that?"
"It's numbing cream."
"Oh, numbing cream. That's good. Put more hor."
You know what numbing cream feels like? Strepsils. And it tastes like that too.
5 mins later, Aidan comes in with a needle. "Ok, I'm going to inject the LA now." And he sticks the cold needle into my mouth and into the gums. Thank God for numbing cream - It was a virtually painless experience.
5 mins later, he returns with a plier-looking instrument.
"I'm going to remove the tooth now. You're just going to feel a bit of pressure, but no pain ok?"
"O-A..." (Ok...)
Plier-looking instrument goes into my mouth, tugs at my tooth while I admired the ceiling.
"Huh? Ho-harst?" (Huh? So fast?)
"Yup, it's done. See. This is your tooth."
"Ooh. Woah." (Ooh, wow.)
"That's a huge tooth for a small person like you."
"Ya han..." (Ya man...)
So anyway, this is the idiot that was causing the ulcer. (Ggrrhh...blame the stupid phone camera)
Believe it or not, this is the easy part. It's merely a temporary relief of the pain. I'm still going back on Monday to remove the rest of the gang. And by that, I mean 5 more teeth to be extracted - 3 of which are minor surgery. Apparently, I have 34 teeth, (which makes me special!) because most people only have 32. So ok, remember to pray for me because it's quite a major-minor procedure and I'm probably going to lose quite a lot of blood... =(
