aug 21 2009

Today I suspect they might have pulled the wrong tooth. I think they were checking with me at the last minute to confirm that they were about to pull the right one, instead of the X-ray, and I wasn't at all sure. He tapped on this and that tooth and I said yes to the one I came into the office thinking it was, but what do I know?

I'm starting to remember the neighboring tooth as the root canal one now, and that one is a bit tender, and "tight" in that now familiar way. Pain from extraction fading, recent pain/pressure I meant to have treated still around.

I'm more than half asleep every moment of every day. I didn't think I'd be telling [i]them[/i] which tooth. I didn't think I'd be having one pulled, certainly not the same hour. Everything went by so fast. The dentist and I didn't understand a third of what the other was saying because of a language or accent barrier.

I'll call them tomorrow morning.