Tooth Ache

So.......it's been a little while since i took my teeth to the dentist.  There, i confessed. To be honest it feels good to get that off my chest.  That said......for the last few months i have been having some aching in my teeth.  I noticed it most on a girls date night with Jennie and we went out for frozen yogurt.  The pain in my mouth was so bad i started rocking back and forth in the store.  But it passed and I let it go.  The pain would come and go, but more recently it was getting unbearable.  I couldn't eat, drink or breath in air without searing, shooting pain.  So last week I got up the nerve to call our dear friend Dr. David Gardner, I lived at his house growing up as a teen and young adult.  His daughter and I were great friends.  And I sucked up the nerve and went in.  Well, i was no joke, shaking in the chair while i waited for him.  Shaking when he hugged me.  And after some xrays.....sure enough.....i had an abscess from a cracked filling and I needed a ROOT CANAL.

I have never had one of these before so I thought back to everyone else I knew that had had one.  They didn't have good things to say about them, so my nerves were revving up.  I was setting myself up for some major trauma.

Um.....I didn't feel a thing.  I had no idea he was even giving me the shot, and he chatted me up the whole time I had no idea he had drilled a giant hole in my tooth and was sticking needles up to kill the nerve.  It was pure bliss.  Who knew the dentist could be that enjoyable.  I would take a root canal anyday over what came next.  

The root canal, cake.  The cleaning I got after was pure h#*!.  I thought on many different occasions during the cleaning i could just get up and run away.  It felt like the hygienist was killing my mouth very slowly.  I had tears streaming down my face.  I blame it all on that stupid CAVITRON machine that is supposed to make your cleaning faster and more effective.  Well, faster? yes i suppose but whenever someone is inflicting intense pain it feels like forever.  Felt like needles being shoved down my gums.  I feel like I tolerate pain fairly well but this was over the top.  NO wonder I had been avoiding the dentist, cleanings suck.   

I have to go back this week to finish my root canal and i am looking forward to that cuz no cleaning is happening.  but the thought of having to do this again in 6 months makes me very sad.