Arggghhh...It's The Dentist!

I feel so lethargic…no matter how much I slept it just doesn’t seem to be enough. I have been working late these past few nights so the thought of going back and updating my blog was not something that entered my mind…well, it did but I just well, pushed it aside….hehehehe..After all, I am already facing the pc the whole day, my eyes are so tired!!! Gosh, and I have so many things that I want to write about…hmmm

Last sat, I decided to visit the dentist. Now, I don’t really fancy going to the dentist or the doc anymore than other ‘normal’ people do…I have been getting this ‘numbness’ on one of my back tooth whenever I drank some cool beverages so I figured there must be a hole somewhere in there….so I trotted off to the nearest dentist to my house…See, I don’t have a ‘regular’ dentist that I go to just like I don’t have a regular hair stylist, beautician or masseuse that I frequent. I just goto the nearest shop from where I currently am or whenever I feel like having a haircut, a facial, a massage or wat-nots. Of cos, the downside is when you do a walk-in, chances are you might have to wait….sometimes for ages!!!!

Don’t believe in sticking to the same ones like other people. Cos I guess sometimes, when you become a regular especially hair stylist, they are afraid to experiment new styles on you, or if you ask them to do a different haircut or colour, they are reluctant to do it, which is not something that I fancy. If there’s a new hair salon or beauty salon, I’m always game to try it out…Once I went to Cheras to makan with some frens. After eating, we didn’t have any plans so we decided to go for a haircut. So, we just went to the nearest salon and enquired. Sometimes, by talking to the stylist or the beautician, you can somehow tell whether they knew what they were doing and so, will not end up messing your hair or your face!!! But to be on the safe side, we still went around a couple more shops before settling on the first one! What was supposed to be just getting a haircut ended up to be a colour + highlight + treatment + haircut job!!! And god knows how long we sat there! More than 3 hours! We were the last customers to leave but we were so pleased with the results, I reckon it was worth it….After that, I went back to that salon a couple more times until they started pushing products to me which is another thing that I loathe….

Right, back to the dentist…I don’t know why I always get side-tracked into talking about other stuff all the time! Gees…Eyes rolling…anyway, I went to the dentist nearest to my house…the dentist was not in till late afternoon. I had planned on going to the gym after the dental visit so off I went to see the next nearest dentist that I used to frequent. What a bummer! The dentist was fully booked and so was the next one that I visit! It was exhausting running around trying to locate a dentist just to do a filling for me…I was practically drenched with sweat…fwuaahh…and I’m going to be late for my gym session….my last attempt was a dentist in a mall. It looks kinda expensive but I reckon since the company was paying for it and I badly needed to see a dentist…what the heck lar…I was ecstatic that I didn’t have to wait as a dentist was available to see me!!! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is the right choice!! The whole filling thingy took like less than 10 min…but when the dentist told me that I have another 2 tiny holes to fill, I told him I’ll come back another time…in my mind, I was already calculating the costs…My gawd…he’s out to squeeze me dry man!!! I reckon I’ll just go back to the dentist nearest to my house lar…at least that one is more reasonably priced!! Hehehehe…

In a past instance, I had to go visit the dentist at night…I’m not sure how true it is but people tells me that it’s not advisable to visit the dentist at night! Well, anyway, it was an emergency…I had a hole in my wisdom tooth and it was unbearably painful!! The dentist told me to extract it since it was pointless to do a filling as the hole was quite deep…hmmm…so I was like…yeah, extract it so I’ll have one less tooth to brush!! Har har har…So, he gave me some anesthetic and told me that I had to wait for 20 minutes for it to take effect…The dentist and 2 other nurses surrounded me and started yakking…sometimes in Tamil, sometimes in Malay. Anyway, I just felt like a dungu propped up on the bed listening to their hoo-hah, hoo-hah all around…hmmmph….when it was time to extract the tooth, the 2 nurses beside me grabbed my head hard, one on each side while the dentist used a dental forceps to grasp my tooth and rocked it back and forth to loosen it from my gums…man, my head was practically spinning from the rocking back and forth…no wonder the 2 nurses have to hold my head still otherwise my head would have been wrung from my neck!! Thank god, it was a ‘clean’ extraction otherwise would have to perform minor surgery to extract the tooth roots left behind!! Hmmm…do not fancy that…went home with my bleeding gums and a mild headache! Couldn’t eat, sleep or drink for the next few days!! Ho hum…It just seemed like a nightmare extracting a wisdom tooth…wonder whether it made any difference to my IQ level now that I’m only left with 3 wisdom teeth… hehehehe