Dribbles and Novocaine

My alarm rang at 4:45 and I couldn’t remember why it was alarming so early in the morning. After a bit of ringing, I finally realized that it was my alarm to wake up for my dental visit.

Dragged myself into the shower wishing that my appointment was a bit later in the morning.

Anyway, I got to St.Vincent at 7:30 and practically no where was open yet and I was a bit hungry, but decided that since I was going to the dentist, I would simply have some orange juice instead of a sandwich ( didn’t want to have bread and food stuck in my teeth ).

So, while waiting at the pick-up side of the line, I noticed a girl who lives very close to me also waiting for her order. The way this restaurant works, is the person who is preparing your order asks you “would you like milk with you tea misss, how about sugar”, in a sorta loud voice.

The girl from my neighborhood responds, “yes milk” and so the woman asks ” how much sugar” and she responds ” four”.

Four? lol….That got a bit of looks from a few people who were close by

I was standing there thinking, maybe since she is with her husband, maybe its gona be like two-two, but then the woman then asks the husband, “sir, you want ice with your drink?”

I mean if that’s how some people start their day, with four spoons of sugar…..wow. But anyway moving on.

I finally waste enough time ( for once, i didn’t mind standing in line while the workers moved really slowly because they too were still trying to get out of sleep mode) and walk over to the dental office, where I am the first patient of the day! Yea Thanks to my uncle who made them change my appointment.

While waiting for the dentist, in strolls ‘four spoons of sugar’ and her husband. Humm….will say no more. Who knows, her teeth may be better than mine.

Anyway, I was finally called in to the room, where a very pleasant assistant was arranging the room and chatted with me while waiting for the dentist.

Just to let you know, I don’t remember having any fillings. I’m sure when I was a kid, I had a half rotten tooth and didn’t want to do an extraction and got them to fill it and a few days later the stupid thing fell out on its own..haha..

I wasn’t sure what it was going to feel like. I guess the assistant noticed that i was a bit fidgety ( or maybe it had to do with the very large injection next to me) and tried to calm me down.

So, got past the dreaded prick and soon couldn’t feel my left side of my face.

They are working on my tooth and well what can you do while they are drilling away. I really thing they need to put a tv or something on the ceiling so while you are staring up at least there will be something to distract you. But since there was nothing for me to do, I found my mind wandering off.

There i was thinking ‘so, if a dentist has a cavity can she fill it herself? Or can she give herself a cleaning’.

20minutes later, after having my mouth open for so long, they asked me to spit and then rinse and I was all done.

You would have thought spitting was so easy, but not after you got a shot of Novocaine and your mouth is numb and you sorta lost control over it.

So, i did my best attempt at spitting ( more of a very bad dribble ) and most of the water ended up on me or on the chair and tried to say thanks as they reminded me of my other appointment.

For some strange reason, when I spoke, my mouth moved in the opposite direction. I looked like a gangster. My lip was twisted and my cheek puffy. I went into the washroom and checked and I looked as silly as I felt.

But since it was a Saturday, I felt better knowing that I stood a good chance of avoiding people who I knew.

But that didn’t mean that it was going to be easy. So the dentist said that it would be about 2 more hours before the horrible effects of the ‘gangster drug’ wears off.

But at the time, I was really hungry and needed to eat, so went to a fast food place to get a burger and dang! I forgot that I needed to talk. So, tried my best to ask for a Tex Supreme..which came out sound liked I wanted to fedex something..the girl was watching me like.,.huh…so I stuck to just gimme number 1. So, tried to eat fries, which was one of the hardest thing I have done in a while, not because it was painful or anything, but just that my mouth was not cooperating. so i didn’t try to bite them, I simply shoved them into my mouth and chewed with my front teeth…which seemed to be the only teeth i could use to chew.

I tried to take a sip of my juice, but when I sucked on the straw, all the juice went flying down my chin and out the side haha..sure that looked funny to look at ( me dribbling ).

After that long battle with my food, I went around shopping for the things mom asked me to get and stepped into a dep store. A girl comes up to me and starts telling me about how to make my hair look better and they were watching me ( not a stalker, but a sales rep). And I’m thinking Omg, please don’t ask me anything as I simply nodded.

So she asked me my name in the end, and she couldn’t figure out what I said. So, she asked Fhay? Shay?Layne? so had to finally spell it for her and apologize for sounding crazy.

Got my moms nuts ( which, might I add she asked for NUTS on her list and so I bought peanuts and then was chastised for not buying cashews, cause apparently I have no idea what nuts are), caught the ferry, felt groggy all the way home and finally crashed on my bed where I had one of the best naps I have had in a looooooong time.

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