1 post tagged “losing my shit”

It's almost to the point where it's funny. Maybe.

Sunday night I bit down on a (stale) bread stick and immediately felt some pain. I pretty much broke one of my molars in half.

Ouch.

It's me, so you know... I lost my shit.

Frantic phone calls ensue. I finally get a dentist on the phone and he tells me to just try and remove the broken piece myself.

Um. Yeah. No. Your advice is that I perform my own dental procedure? I need a medical professional to see to this and by the way did I mention that I'm FREAKING THE FUCK OUT HERE?

He decided he would see me that evening. I think it was a good call on his part. He certainly didn't want my death on his hands. Not from the tooth mind you, but from the panic attack that would surely have ultimately killed me if I had to keep walking around with a tooth split in half.

My emergency dentist seems to think my tooth broke because of the poor man's root canal I had done on the same tooth year's ago.

[Sidebar: I swear to God, I have a mouth full of perfect teeth. Except for this one tooth that's from West Virginia. Heh.]

I have no idea why my original dentist went the cheap route on the root canal, because I know I had good dental insurance at the time. Definitely better than what I have now.

Anyway, the emergency dentist removed the broken piece (and gave it to me to keep - we'll be putting it under my pillow later, my son is super excited about that) and put in the permanent filling. It was a bad break, but he was able to save my tooth. And since it was my root canal tooth and the nerves were already gone, it really didn't hurt that badly. I'm good to go until I can go back and get the crown that I should have gotten years ago after the root canal in the first place. I think my emergency dentist is now my regular dentist because once we got past the little misunderstanding about just how bad the break was (there was no way I could pull that out myself), everything was super duper cool and my regular dentist is the crackpot who gave me a bad root canal, so I'm sure as heck not going back to him.

Never a dull moment, folks. Never a dull moment.