My Start to 2014 ...
So ... I’ve been bitchy and mopey and snappy since the New Year started. It wasn’t the most ideal way to start the year but I found myself in the dentist chair on the 2nd of Jan. Now let me just say I have a very big fear (as most people do) of the dentist and I actually hadn’t been since I was in primary school.
My tooth was broken and I figured it needed to come out. I knew I had another bad tooth on the other side that would need to be pulled out even more than the one I was currently there for, only it has never given me any pain.
I was nervous as hell. The dentist tells me that the tooth is bad but they can save it with a Root Canal which will cost a minimum $2000.00. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t have $2000.00 just lying around. I opted to get it taken out. While I was in there doing that she as expected told me the other bad tooth would simply need to come out and that I had two impacted Wisdom Tooth that needed to come out. Oh and Plus a few fillings that needed to be done. I mean I guess it could have been worse considering how long I have not been to the dentist but this news did not make me happy. Not to mention the fact that the tooth that was pulled left me in more pain than it ever game me when it was still lodged in my gum.
It’s fine now. Well it’s still healing but I am getting use to eating on that side again and it is feeling less and less weird. But I have this sick feeling in my gut at the thought of going back and doing that all over again, not to mention having to be put under to get my wisdom out. Puts me in freak out mode.
But you know? This is life. It’s not all fun and laughter and sometimes it makes you go through things that you don’t want to do. And to be honest if going through with all this prevents even worse trouble in the future - which is kind of the point - I guess I’ll suck it up and deal because in the grand scheme of things. My life is still pretty good and going to the dentist and losing a couple of teeth is nothing compared to what some people are going through right now. I should be thankful that for the most part I am pretty healthy and can get even healthier with a little bit of effort. I know people that are facing down a death sentence and it breaks my heart. I need to stop moaning about it and just deal.
Besides, my 2014 hasnt started off all that bad. That very weekend I headed out on a Road Trip with 9 of my friends. We all met in Geelong at a friend’s house and then hit the road in three cars, visiting Torquay, Bells Beach, Light House in Aireys Inlet and Angelsea. It picked up my spirits immensely to be surrounded by these amazing girls that I am lucky enough to call friend. To laugh and joke and to see how beautiful parts of my country really is.
Now I’m looking forward to heading out to Ballarat with those same girls to go back in time to the Gold Rush and the Renaissance era :) Good distraction for my tooth problems.
My tooth was broken and I figured it needed to come out. I knew I had another bad tooth on the other side that would need to be pulled out even more than the one I was currently there for, only it has never given me any pain.
I was nervous as hell. The dentist tells me that the tooth is bad but they can save it with a Root Canal which will cost a minimum $2000.00. I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t have $2000.00 just lying around. I opted to get it taken out. While I was in there doing that she as expected told me the other bad tooth would simply need to come out and that I had two impacted Wisdom Tooth that needed to come out. Oh and Plus a few fillings that needed to be done. I mean I guess it could have been worse considering how long I have not been to the dentist but this news did not make me happy. Not to mention the fact that the tooth that was pulled left me in more pain than it ever game me when it was still lodged in my gum.
It’s fine now. Well it’s still healing but I am getting use to eating on that side again and it is feeling less and less weird. But I have this sick feeling in my gut at the thought of going back and doing that all over again, not to mention having to be put under to get my wisdom out. Puts me in freak out mode.
But you know? This is life. It’s not all fun and laughter and sometimes it makes you go through things that you don’t want to do. And to be honest if going through with all this prevents even worse trouble in the future - which is kind of the point - I guess I’ll suck it up and deal because in the grand scheme of things. My life is still pretty good and going to the dentist and losing a couple of teeth is nothing compared to what some people are going through right now. I should be thankful that for the most part I am pretty healthy and can get even healthier with a little bit of effort. I know people that are facing down a death sentence and it breaks my heart. I need to stop moaning about it and just deal.
Besides, my 2014 hasnt started off all that bad. That very weekend I headed out on a Road Trip with 9 of my friends. We all met in Geelong at a friend’s house and then hit the road in three cars, visiting Torquay, Bells Beach, Light House in Aireys Inlet and Angelsea. It picked up my spirits immensely to be surrounded by these amazing girls that I am lucky enough to call friend. To laugh and joke and to see how beautiful parts of my country really is.
Now I’m looking forward to heading out to Ballarat with those same girls to go back in time to the Gold Rush and the Renaissance era :) Good distraction for my tooth problems.