Visit to the Dentist...

I had to get one of my new wisdom teeth removed… Going to the dentist isn’t something I am familiar with… But seen almost all in my family go & their painful experiences… So I was obviously scared due to the 2nd hand and the general 3rd hand experience.
I reached the clinic at the earliest possible. The doc came in and I took the “hot” seat. As I was already on medication for the past 3 days, I wasn’t in pain at that moment. The doc did a regular check up first… then I saw him fill a huge injection of anaesthesia… perfect time for my heart to skip a beat.
With as much courage as I could muster, I opened my mouth as wide as possible.
One, two, three… the doc injected the anaesthesia in 3 places. Within 5 minutes, the right side of my mouth had swollen and become numb. Then began the procedure.
The gums were pushed back… with sheer force the tooth was pushed and finally pulled out using a tweezers-like tool. All this took about 45 seconds !!
Thankfully I didn’t feel any pain, only the applied force. Ofcourse everything happened with my eyes tightly shut. So I just saw no tooth in the start and a huge blood stained tooth in the end.
I was on my way back home with a swollen face and a huge cotton bud in my mouth within 20 minutes of setting foot in the clinic. I didn’t know this was just the beginning. Soon enough I started to feel the anaesthesia spread… The teeth in the surrounding area couldn’t be felt… then the right half of my tongue turns into a stone, followed by right half of the lips. And before I know it, the entire right half of my face is without sensation… my speech wasn’t all that comprehensible, it was an effort to keep the right eye open, the ear seemed to have just dropped off and the effect was trying to make its presence felt even in my head.
A few hours of sleep and the effects evaporated as suddenly as they had dawned. There isn’t much pain because of the medicines.

Now after three days, it is just a slightly painful throbbing, which too shall pass… After all, the visit to the dentist wasn’t as excruciating as I was expecting it to be…!