Dear Dentist, Don't Try To Make a Conversation With Me While Your Hands Are In My Mouth... Love, Chelsea

Okay, something is happening to me; and I don’t know if its physical or mental but something is definitely happening. I haven’t been keeping true to my schedule! What is wrong with me? It’s either I’m procrastinating or school is being brutally unforgiving. I don’t know if it’s because I’m taking three Pre-Aps (Honor classes basically.) and a foreign language... or, something! But I am so confuzzled. Yes, that is a word. It’s an epic word.

Anyways, I’ll give ya’ll a sit-rep since I’ve been gone for... a week.

Happy Valentine’s Day, Everyone! Your present is my love! :D <3

I had a dentist appointment this morning and that’s what I’ll be blogging about today. Now, I totally forgot about my dentist appointment on VALENTINE’S DAY! I know, the irony is setting in. Candy + Me = Cavities.

Our appointment was 8:00 in the morning and so, me and my sister, who is seventeen, walk into the place and we sign in. But we both get confused about what time our appointment is... We couldn’t remember if it was 8:00 or 8:30. So, this is what it looked like:

Emily (Insert Last Name), 2/14, 8:00
Chelsea (Insert Last Name), 2/14, 8:30?

Yeah, it ended up being 8:00. It was really awkward though, sitting in the waiting room. Our mom booked the earliest time she could so there is one other elderly woman in there, dressed in a matching red pants and shirt. She was browsing a magazine and me and Emily were spazzing out because we couldn’t remember. The lady, I’m sorry, she blew her nose REALLY LOUD. It took SO MUCH effort not to laugh. My sister looked like she was about to burst. It was hilarious.

Anyways, a lady enters the waiting room, calls our names and leads us to the little rooms with the chairs. I go in one and Emily goes in the other. So, I’m sitting there all alone waiting for my nurse-person to arrive and all I could really do was stare out the window across from me. There was this really... big tree with like fifty little bubbles on it. It was kind of gross...

My nurse finally comes in and I swear, I remember her face but I couldn’t find a name for her face. She was a really friendly nurse and knew a lot about me than I realized. She knew a lot. She knew my sister names, little brothers name, my mom, AND the church I go to... O_O Stalker if you ask me.

But other than that, she was really nice and friendly. And asks me all the questions, making small talk. She was real nice.

Then she started to clean my teeth. She told me to look at the wall and choose the flavor I wanted for... I don’t even know what it was. It was a little poster with a dude on it who looked like he was constipated, wearing this stupid, white ice-cream parlor outfit, cleaning this milk-shake glass with a rag... It was really weird. And in a little blue bubble coming off of his head, there were the flavors listed. I just kept to Bubble gum because Spazzing-Melon sounded kind of dangerous. I decided I didn’t want to test my luck today. And it said Spazzing-Melon. It’s spreading to the adults. *facepalm*

So, she leans me back in the chair and sticks her little knife-thing and mirror in my mouth. You see, I haven’t gone to the dentist is THREE YEARS. This isn’t a “norm” for me. So, she sees two teeth that could be cavities. Me: Oh, that’s is just about right...

To check if they were cavities, she brought up this little box with a cord coming off of it and a little rubber utensil at the end of the cord. I didn’t get a good look at the box because she put it behind me. So, she said, “If it reads over 25, it’s a cavity,”

She turned the little box on and it sounded like the intro to the old Tron, this little electronic chime. She sticks the rubber utensil on my tooth and this shrill shriek comes from the box. Not really sure what that meant at the time and she told me the number it read:

99

O_O

No joke, I thought she was just playing with me. I said, “Seriously?” And she said yes. Lol. I’m sorry, but that is just plain karma. And so she checks the other tooth: 64. -_- Like that’s any better.

Yeah, I have two cavities and I’m not at all worried to get them filled because I’ve gotten them filled before! It’s not like it’s the very first time. I’ve had four cavities in all. Oh wow, now that I think about it; that looks really bad on an application. Oh well, whose watching really? All you have to do is give me some laughing gas and I’m happy.

Speaking of gas, (teehee) I want to see someone who has sleeping gas AND laughing gas. Ooh, that will be soooo classic! XD

So, she cleaned my teeth. Before she started, she shoved this little circular palette thing underneath my nose and told me to tell it. I sniffed it and I didn’t smell anything. I just said, “Ooh, what’s that?” In a wondrous tone, acting as if I HAD smelled it when I actually HADN’T. She said it was cookie-dough scented!

O_o That’s a first. I didn’t even know they HAD cookie-dough scented cleaning gel... thing. Or whatever it is. It smelled pretty good when she smeared it on my teeth and tasted decent. I mean, it could have tasted a LOT WORSE. And I was thankful it didn’t. That’s just what I wanted in the morning, sweet, cookie-dough scented cleaning gel.

As she was applying the cookie-dough scented on my teeth – not to mention it was friggin’ BLUE. I really don’t see how that correlated – she decided to start to talk to me. SERIOUSLY?! What do you expect to get from me when you have your hands in my mouth? An answer? All I could get out were cave-man “uh-huhs” and “hmms” and “mmms”. I don’t know what she was thinking. She was like talking to me about her... car or something. About how it was broken and in the shop because she couldn’t go over 20 miles per hour. I had to laugh through my nose... -_-

That’s just what gets on my nerves about some dentists. They try to have a conversation with you AS they are cleaning your teeth. It’s like, “DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU’LL GET A GOOD ANSWER OUT OF ME!” It wasn’t a full-blown conversation or anything, just a bunch of random small talk.

She took what looked like an electric tooth brush on a cord and went to town on my teeth! It didn’t hurt while she was doing it but it hurt afterwards. So bad that I said, “Are my teeth suppose to hurt?” She said, “Well, not really, let me put (insert the words I didn’t catch because she turned on a buzzing instrument),” Me: Okay...?

She put bubble gum flavored foam on my teeth... What is that even suppose to do? I mean, it’s just like putting shaving cream on your teeth; only that it tastes relatively better than shaving cream. For one minute, I couldn’t shut my mouth or anything. I’ve learned to swallow with my mouth open because I use to have braces. And I would have my mouth open at MINUTES at a time. My tongue would shrivel and die by the time she was done. R.I.P Chelsea’s Tongue.

Well, the dentist trip was pretty... interesting. I always have interesting trips to doctors and such...

OOH! I didn’t tell ya’ll about my trip to the doctor last month! :D

Well, in a nutshell, my hearing is good, my eye-sight: I need to get better glasses, and the nurse said, “She’s a charming, young lady,” :D

Though! I’m only 5 feet 3 inches 5/8... -_- It is unbelievably close to 5’ 4”. And so, according to my charts, I’m not gonna get much taller. Actually, I’ll probably grow to 5’4” and the stop. Well, I guess my personality will have to make up for the lack of height.

I had a really good Valentine’s day. My mom gave me a hug and my dad’s in Corpus so he couldn’t give me anything. It doesn’t matter to me. As long as I have his love. <3 I got six of my besties some little heart-shaped boxes with chocolate inside and cool little cards. They’re pretty cool! :D They thought it was sweet and I’m glad. They have Christmas, I have Valentine’s day! XD

I got many hugs today! I like hugs. :) And my bestie, Caitlin gave me this bag with a friggin’ RING POP! Man, I miss those things... (Also, you know when you’re a 90s baby when you remember Ferbies! Tell me if you agree!) Also I got some sweettarts from Caitlin as well and a big, strawberry lollipop.

Well, damn, it’s worth it to get another cavity again! XD

How was your Valentine’s day? And has your dentist tried to make conversation with you while their hands were in your mouth? So I can conclude that I’m not crazy...

Lotza love,
<3~Chels