12 reasons not to go.......... (Dentists)

Member Name: millergirl

Product:	Dentists
Date:	30/08/01 (708 review reads)
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Advantages: He may stop the pain

Disadvantages: too many to put them in this header!

Just a few short hours ago I was chatting with some special friends and I made, one tiny mention that I had a slight tooth ache. I should have known that there is no such thing, when my teeth ache they do it in style!

So here I am sitting at my keyboard at 4am writing this op as sleep has just gone out of the window and I had to come downstairs anyway to root out (ouch) some pain killers. So what will tomorrow bring? Will I do the brave thing as I would recommend to any of you Dooyooers and visit the dentist or will I suffer and believe me it won’t be in silence? If you were me what would you do? Turn back the clock and treat my teeth with more compassion would be the best thing but I don’t think that’s an option.

I was lying in bed, suffering and wondering where I put the dentist’s number but these thought kept going round my head as to why I should not go.

1. I am really busy tomorrow. I’ve got some paint to watch dry and I really did mean to watch and make sure the grass is growing okay.

2. There are the children to think of. I mean it’s not as though I know any great people that would look after them for an hour and well they really couldn’t manage without me could they?

3. The way he put his fingers in my mouth. I just hate that and I know he will do it because they’ve done it every time I’ve visited a dentist since about the age of six! Fingers will go in accompanied by instruments of torture and then he’ll ask if I’ve been on holiday this year!

4. I know I’ve read that you can catch all sorts of things from the dentist. Infact I just read, right here on Dooyoo that a visit to the dentist can even result in death! Come on now that puts a bit of pain in perspective don’t you think?

5. He’s always late. I think it is a deliberate policy you know, just to make buying that compulsory fish tank worth while, keep ‘e
m waiting. Maybe they think the longer you wait, the more grateful we will be when they do get to see us.

6. Okay the pain is going now, really I’m sure it will be fine by the morning. I wouldn’t want to waste his time, I mean he is a busy man and there must be people needing to see him more than me (aaaaah why did I sip that cold water?), I’ll consider some more.

7. Then there’s the fact they I will probably need to remortgage the house to pay the bill. What ever happened to the National Health Service? I thought the whole point of paying National Insurance was so that when we were suffering we could get free treatment, not be ripped off again!


8. Then there’s the nurse, have you seen the way she runs her fingers through her hair? She spends the whole time flirting with the dentist, which if she wasn’t old enough to be his mother, or mine for that matter might not be quite so bad.

9. I have a needle phobia. Well at least I’m pretty sure I do and I’m certainly too much of a coward to let him start with the drill without an injection, so I just can't win.


10. I absolutely must stay by the phone. Did I tell you I am expecting a really important telephone call any day now and I’ve a feeling tomorrow is just when it will come. One day some bright spark will invent a machine to take calls for us when we are out, but hey that’s a long way off yet isn’t it?

11. He never calls when he says he will. It is so frustrating you phone for a cancellation and they say they’ll phone back, but no I’ll end up ringing them again. Not that I really wanted to go in the first place, but oh it really is hurting big time now and that’s after the pills should have kicked in.

12. I promised myself that I would read lots of peoples ops tomorrow, whilst playing with the kids, keeping an eye on the paint and grass and of course sitting n
ext to the phone.


That’s it then 12 reasons why I should not go to the dentist and only one as to why I should. It hurts and just maybe inspite of my whinging he might make it better.Maybe if I can think of 11 more positives by the morning I'll go. Wish me luck will you? One way or another I think I’m gonna need it!

Part 2!!!!


Okay, I thought I had 12 pretty convincing reasons not to go infact I convinced myself so well that I did not go yesterday.

It’s funny what pain can do for you though as by this morning I was desperately looking for the dentist number whilst swallowing down yet more pain killers. Oh no they could see me today 10.45 though I may have to wait, what did I tell you, (see point 5) mind you it is last minute so I suppose I should be grateful. When the pain stops is when I will be grateful and not a moment before.

I arrive on the dot 10.45 and didn’t have to wait long when my dentist, a quite presentable looking young chap actually, but I digress, appears. “Good morning Millergirl come upstairs and I’ll sort you out”! Now with the exception of the name I swear that is an exact quote, well what’s a girl to think! I mean I’m a happily married lady old enough to be his mot..mothe…big sister!

All right now, we’re upstairs I’m laid out on the chair and what does he have to offer? Drugs! Turns out I’ve got a bit of a problem under the tooth and yes you’ve guessed it, I‘ve got to go back in a couple of weeks when the antibiotics have worked (I hope).
I nearly forgot to tell you his nurse informed me, running her fingers through her hair, “You can pay then”!

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