As it can not have escaped your attention I was experiencing somewhat of a dental crisis over the weekend. It all began last week when I was chewing a piece of chewing gum. I got rather ambitious in chewing it on the side of my mouth that I had had a crown fitted a couple of years earlier and I it started to hurt. I knew the crown had been out really close to the nerve and thought I must have disturbed it or something. The pain only lasted a couple of hours and then went.
On Friday the pain came back only this time it was really bad, it felt like a terrorist had dug a little cave into the side of my gum and was conducting nuclear missile trials inside my mouth. I am not exaggerating when I say I would rather go through childbirth again than experience the pain that I was going through that night. I went to the chemist and bought the strongest drugs I could find. Nothing was working. I called NHS direct to see where one could seek salvation in a situation such as this and discovered that there is no where in the entire city you can go with a dental emergency outside of office hours and even the so called "emergency" facilities we have only operate from 9-9. It was 9.30pm when I called, I would have to wait all night.
I was livid. How can a city such as ours expect people to have to wait 12 hours in agony. I appreciate there would have to be a private facility as the NHS wouldn't fund it but I didn't care I was prepared to pay and indeed i did end up paying heavily.
I was concerned because on Saturday morning I was due to go to London to commemorate what would have been my aunties 60th birthday. My auntie died last Christmas and my cousin had arranged this weekend, it was very sentimental and there was absolutely no way I could miss this trip. I was thankful therefore that when 7am came around I had been in considerably less pain for an hour and decided to risk the trip down south.
Fuck me
Had been on the train for half an hour when the pain started and by the time I got there I thought I can't fucking cope with this!!! My cousin had arranged a champagne trip on the london eye and I tried in vein to down as many glasses of champers as I could but it was just too much for me and in the end I had to get off the london eye and phone an emergency dentist down there. You see in london you can ring up 24 hours a day and arrange to be seen. AS IT FUCKING SHOULD BE!!! Within half an hour I was in the chair being injected with lots of face numbing anaesthetic!! Heaven!! They xrayed me and showed me my crown was sitting on the nerve of my tooth and also I had an abscess which was had now spread infection up my jaw to my ear, he said this had happened within about an hour of the pain first starting. I didn't stand a chance with no dental facilities up here!!! He offered me root canal but I told him to take the cunt out which he did. It cost me 350quid in the end which I was more than happy to pay because on my opinion you can't put a price on a pain free fucking gob!!!
Skipped out of the dentists numb and happy which lasted about 2 hours until the drugs wore off and I have been suffering with a very swollen face and sickly feeling ever since. I am on very strong anti biotics and have been in bed for last couple of days. Can not believe a fucking tooth can cause so much bloody trauma. Let me assure you I was in labour 37 hours, I have broken my arm twice, I have been through adult chicken pox, but THIS.... This my friends was something else. I do not get disabled easily, but this had fucking floored me I swear to god.
On a positive note I have lost 8lb during this ordeal, which I attribute solely to the fact I can't open my trap wide enough to chew food, so every cloud and all that.
Have decided I might be the other guys friend after all, if he doesn't want to see me that's fair enough, and a girl can never have to many friends haha xxx
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