Yesterday at eight am I plunked my butt into my dentist's chair for a root canal. I'd wanted him to pull the small crooked lower tooth, but he convinced me a root canal would be better and not leave a gap. I didn't care about the gap personally, it being tiny and insignificant in my estimation, but I went with his preference.
After an hour-and-a-half in the chair with him drilling and poking and grinding, he told me we'd finish it up at the next appointment(!?) He also said I might feel some discomfort, which could be mitigated by Ibuprofen or the like. I made my next appointment at the front desk, a little worried that it was more than two weeks away, but confident that I could handle a "little discomfort" since the tooth had been providing that for most of a year already. Well, I'm not sure what he would define as a "little discomfort" but this ain't it. It hurts like hell every time the Tylenol or Advil wears off (I'm alternating them at a shorter interval than I'd be safely able to take either alone - a method my doctor recommended when I had shingles.)
I'm trying to macho it out until Monday with the help of OTC drugs, but he may be getting a call this weekend. It kind of reminds me of a mantra we had in IBM, "Don't do any software updates on Friday, unless you want to work over the weekend." Maybe that holds for unfinished root canals.
After an hour-and-a-half in the chair with him drilling and poking and grinding, he told me we'd finish it up at the next appointment(!?) He also said I might feel some discomfort, which could be mitigated by Ibuprofen or the like. I made my next appointment at the front desk, a little worried that it was more than two weeks away, but confident that I could handle a "little discomfort" since the tooth had been providing that for most of a year already. Well, I'm not sure what he would define as a "little discomfort" but this ain't it. It hurts like hell every time the Tylenol or Advil wears off (I'm alternating them at a shorter interval than I'd be safely able to take either alone - a method my doctor recommended when I had shingles.)
I'm trying to macho it out until Monday with the help of OTC drugs, but he may be getting a call this weekend. It kind of reminds me of a mantra we had in IBM, "Don't do any software updates on Friday, unless you want to work over the weekend." Maybe that holds for unfinished root canals.
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