That's about what I sound like right now.
I got a double root canal done today--FOR FREEEEE!
My mom's dentist does a "community service program"/huge tax write-off each year where anyone and everyone is welcome to come in and get work done as long as they get in line before the cut off. So I went and sat in line starting at 6am this morning; saw the sunrise, had some coffee while reading the rest of "A Dance With Dragons" and sitting under a nice tree.
Six hours later I finally got called (they were organizing in an odd way--I was person #44 out of 100+), had a quick xray, waited 30 more minutes, got called back:
"You're here for an extraction?"
"Um, no..."
"Oh. Go back to the waiting room".
An hour later, I see the dentist for 2 minutes, long enough for him to go "Yup, you need a root canal. Go to this other place. You're going to be waiting another 2 hours."
I went home and had lunch first, because I was ready to kill someone. I'm not a patient person at the best of times and being exhausted, hungry and having run out of patience for the week last night, it was not a good combo.
However, once I got to the endodontic place, things were awesome. They did BOTH of my teeth and BOTH accompanying crowns are included in the freebie thingy, so I just scored $4000 worth of dentistry.
And as a testament to either my exhaustion or my ability to go to my happy place, I'm pretty sure after I stuck in my earbuds and turned on my iPod, I went to sleep or zoned out hardcore. Either way, I wasn't paying a lick of attention to what they were doing. Now my face feels like a blown-up bullfrog and I'm not entirely looking forward to when the lidocaine wears off, even though I've already popped 800mg of Advil.
I got a double root canal done today--FOR FREEEEE!
My mom's dentist does a "community service program"/huge tax write-off each year where anyone and everyone is welcome to come in and get work done as long as they get in line before the cut off. So I went and sat in line starting at 6am this morning; saw the sunrise, had some coffee while reading the rest of "A Dance With Dragons" and sitting under a nice tree.
Six hours later I finally got called (they were organizing in an odd way--I was person #44 out of 100+), had a quick xray, waited 30 more minutes, got called back:
"You're here for an extraction?"
"Um, no..."
"Oh. Go back to the waiting room".
An hour later, I see the dentist for 2 minutes, long enough for him to go "Yup, you need a root canal. Go to this other place. You're going to be waiting another 2 hours."
I went home and had lunch first, because I was ready to kill someone. I'm not a patient person at the best of times and being exhausted, hungry and having run out of patience for the week last night, it was not a good combo.
However, once I got to the endodontic place, things were awesome. They did BOTH of my teeth and BOTH accompanying crowns are included in the freebie thingy, so I just scored $4000 worth of dentistry.
And as a testament to either my exhaustion or my ability to go to my happy place, I'm pretty sure after I stuck in my earbuds and turned on my iPod, I went to sleep or zoned out hardcore. Either way, I wasn't paying a lick of attention to what they were doing. Now my face feels like a blown-up bullfrog and I'm not entirely looking forward to when the lidocaine wears off, even though I've already popped 800mg of Advil.
