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Drill, Baby, Drill

It was a hell of a day to be on the roads.

I went to my new gaming group last night, so I drove to work last night instead of the metro. On the way home, my usually clear against-traffic ride was snarled by a massive accident. Then I had to drive to the dentist's office. That usually clear against-traffic ride was snarled by a stalled truck and the remnants of a massive accident. And when I drove home? One stalled car, one massive accident (on a different freeway, but near enough to clog up mine), and debris in lanes. So much for fuel economy.

The dentist wasn't much fun either. Don't get me wrong, Dr. Chalian is a fantastic dentist. Anyone who can convert ojouchan from being rabidly anti-dentistry to fervently pro-dentist is pretty amazing. And he takes great care to make sure that there's no pain.

And I didn't feel any pain, but I did feel a lot of pokes and prods, more than he was comfortable with. He'd inject some anesthetic, everything would be going fine, then I'd start feeling the drill. (I guess, more accurately, I was probably feeling the debris from the drill. It never hurt, but, you know, I shouldn't have been feeling anything at all.) Dr. Chalian was apologetic, and a little flustered. He gave me a temporary filling with some sort of medicine attached to prepare me for next time.

As I was leaving, the other doctor told me not to eat for an hour while my mouth was numb. I told him that it was already feeling pretty hearty; as I got out of the chair it felt less like anesthesia and more like my a limb that was just waking up from being "asleep." He suggested that the anesthetic wearing off quickly might have been part of the problem.

So I'll have to go back in two weeks to see how things get finished off. A little harrowing, but for all the loss of anesthesia, no actual pain, so I'm counting it as a net win.