I have always known deep inside that there must be a good reason for my unusually strong dislike of dentists and generally doctors. Today I was proved right- I decided to have my teeth checked, "just in case", two days before leacing to Oxford. No tooth hurt me, everything was perfectly fine but people still warned me that if I go the dentist will surely find something. And so she did- a tooth which I thought was perfectly fine, and which apparently requires a root canal. I won't be able to have it done until December when I come back to Poland (and the insurance doesn't cover any dental treatment in the UK) so for now she just put some poison inside the tooth that is meant to kill the nerves, so that she can pull them out later. Yay, sounds terrific.
It hurts like hell, I've already taken 3 pain killers and they don't help. I just hope it won't be like that till December or I will literally take a pair of combination pliers and remove the bastard myself.
To say that I'm freaking out about that root canal is an understatement. I know it may seem like Im just panicking but seriously, I am incredibly bad at taking pain. I fainted when I had a blood test and today, when she was just examining the tooth, I got so pale, that she had to put down the whole torture chair. This is how my body reacts to pain or (Gog vorbid) blood- it shuts down and I black out.
So yeah, I was wondering if anyone could tell me just how badly the root canal actually hurts? I asked one person who had it done, and she said she'd rather give birth to another child than have this done to her again. Not very encouraging.
My mum said it was all my fault for not going earlier. But how was I ever meant to know that anything was wrong? She also said that if I'm so bad at taking pain than I should never have children. Great.
I just wish they could put me out for any medical treatments, really.
As for Oxford- I'm flying on Sunday, with my 15 kilos suitcase. Still haven't found the lacking money, will just have to look for a job there and hope for the best. I just hope I'm not making the biggest mistake of my life.
