i know it’s a very weird thing, but i’m looking forward to getting a root canal tomorrow morning at EIGHT A.M.
this weekend i’ve been staying up very late reading, and then sleeping really late, so getting up at seven tomorrow to get to the root canal will probably not be such a happy time.
plus, of course, there’s the ROOT CANAL, starting with a GARGANTUAN NEEDLE being poked deep into my gum. ok, i’m not looking forward to that.
but on wednesday night as i was brushing my teeth, i could feel a little…twinge…in my bad tooth. uh oh. i now have a deathly fear of any twinging going on in my mouth, sure that it’s going to lead to horrific, unbearable pain. so the next morning i called the endodontist who allegedly has me on a cancel list – if somebody cancels their appointment, they’ll call me – but they hadn’t called. the receptionist assured me that i was on the list, and she asked if i had pain and i told her.
she called just a couple hours later and i had to RUSH OUT THE DOOR for my consultation. i had been making muffins, a new kind, with a mixture of goat cheese, honey and lemon zest in the middle. i was carefully putting a spoonful of goat cheese into each muffin, then i was going to fill them up…BUT SUDDENLY, NO TIME! MUST GET TO THE ENDODONTIST!
i yelled KEVIN YOU HAVE TO FINISH MAKING THESE MUFFINS! HURRY UP AND LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO DO IT!!!
i pointed out where i’d gotten to in the recipe and hurried out the door. drove really fast in the rain even though i usually drive very slowly in the rain because of an irational fear that the car is going to slide all over the road when it’s wet.
got to the endodontist, got right in. he seems like a good guy, and i’m glad that my friend gena has been to him and she thinks he’s GREAT.
the only thing is, he couldn’t really tell anything because of the temporary filling in my tooth, put there by the dentist who did the partial emergency root canal two weeks ago. he did explain that if the crack in the root is really bad, yet another doctor will have to pull the tooth and i’ll have to have a bridge probably which means TWO MORE CROWNS, and i don’t want to think about all that right now.
i made another appointment, and he said he’ll remove the temporary filling and will finish off the root canal if the tooth looks ok.
the appointment was for february 15th, which seems like an eternity. but then, friday, the receptionist called and said i could come in at eight on monday.
HELL YEAH I’LL BE THERE.
if i had to wait till february 15th, i’d be worrying and dreading it. but this way, BAM, it’ll be all fixed before noon tomorrow.
by 10 tomorrow, hopefully.
everything will be good. all good.
the endodontist gave me a prescription for penicillin, which he said would make any pain go away. my dentist just gave me a script for antiobiotics a couple weeks ago, so i feel that i should now be thoroughly cured of any other infections or random bad things in my body.
good good good. plus all the snow has melted, and i’m pretending that it’s spring, even though it’s going to get a lot colder this week and it might snow, maybe some freezing rain, freezing fog, who knows what else. but right now, there are lots of cardinals out on the birdfeeder plus other cute little birds, the grass is actually kind of green, a good sunday. looking forward to that root canal!
ok then,
crazy sunday grace.