how do you spell relief?
no, i am not talking about rolaids.
so we went to the emergency dental place yesterday morning. first there was a clueless 2nd year who did an exam and filled in paperwork. he was basically worthless. he was so afraid of hurting us that he didn’t even tap on the painful tooth, just the ones around it. so consequently he told his supervisor that #10 was a lot worse than #11. #11 is the problem one.
so then he left to go to class. then we were supposed to have some random student to do the actual extraction. but somehow our student convinced them to let him do it. as soon as he took over we relaxed a lot. he stood up for us to the supervisor who thought we didn’t know which tooth was the problem.
he did a really good job. best extraction we’ve had. and he was so sweet…before he did anything, he said “so i brought my ipod. i thought maybe if you wanted to listen to music while we work…” that was so incredibly thoughtful. he is always aware of how scary this dental crap is for us. when he was done and we told him that the music helped, he said he would bring it every time.
so anyway…the intense stabbing pain is no longer. cold doesn’t hurt any longer. (yay!!!) but there is still a throbbing from the extraction. and we can’t bring our teeth together without pain. but i don’t think any of it is undue.
the only bad thing in the appointment was that some flashbacks were triggered. he was standing on one side of us, to do the work. a 4th year student, also male, was standing on the other side of us assisting. we started seeing and feeling two men pressed against us…with their penises out…touching us…
it was hard to get grounded in the present…to know that those things aren’t happening now. the music really helped. and knowing him helped. it would have been a lot harder if it was a stranger.
then in the afternoon we got to see linda! she is back from peru! we were, and are, very excited about that. we missed her a lot.
