root canal

had my root canal today. it went pretty much like i thought it was going to go. the during part was fine...of course it was fine. why wouldn't it be when your mouth is totally numb? so that was fine. of course, now that the novocaine has worn off, it is not fine. in fact, i would say it's a pretty painful ache. nothing i can't handle, of course, but still. the dentist started writing me a prescription for vicodin but i regrettfully declined, stating that all that stuff did was make me throw up. as i walked out i realized that maybe i should have got some anyway to start-up my drug dealing business but i never have been to quick on the draw where that's concerned.

another bummer is that i have to go back in a week and that's when the clean out the tooth again and then fill it with this permanent cement stuff and seal it. so i have to do this all over again. dammit.

the only awesome part of the visit was when the dentist told me he was going to put a "dental dam" over my mouth. it's where you frame the one tooth you want to work on and then stretch this plastic latex over the entire mouth so that only the one tooth is visible. actually pretty genius but when he said "dental dam" all i could think of was 6th grade sex ed. good thing they don't still use laughing gas because i would have giggled my ass right out of that chair.