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Are there any dentists who are not sadists?  I'd just like to know. 

I was supposed to be getting a temporary filling in one tooth, and then get another tooth yanked out.  I was not excited about this prospect.  I hate people messing with my teeth.  I don't go to the dentist as much as I'm supposed to now because I went to the dentist far too much when I was in my early teens.  My orthodontist was a jerk, and he made me hate all dentists.

Anyway, I got the temporary filling and it hurt kind of a lot.  Then she moved on to the extraction.  Or, as it turns out, the attempted extraction.  Apparently my tooth is not just rotted from the inside, but is also impacted and stuck in there hard.  She yanked, jiggled, twisted and tugged at my tooth for about 15 minutes before deciding that it wasn't going anywhere. 

I am going to have to get a hospital appointment to get my tooth removed, and I'm hoping there'll be anesthesia involved.

I was supposed to end today with a bloody socket instead of a broken tooth.  Instead, I have a throbbing stump of a tooth and yet another dentist appointment.  

Dentists always tell me that I don't see the dentist often enough.  Why would I when this is what I get for it?  Until dentist appointments end with hugs and puppies instead of blood and throbbing, I will continue to avoid them.

Alana

P.S.  In other news, Spike and Elvis are still getting along great.  Fudge is getting used to living alone, and is happier now that we moved him into the bottom cage so he can see what we're doing.