I hate local anaesthetic.

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Due to my mouth being asleep, I can't eat (& forgot to have breakfast => hello hunger PANGS) (isn't PANG a great word? sounds Martian) & my speech slurs - trying to get somebody at the library to get a book from the fiction stack, I found ". . . who was Thursday" botchalicious.

Blarg. Gimme global anaesthetic or give me PAIN!

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

what on earth is "...who was Thursday"? sounds like a chil'rens book. Do you think I will be able to find any Philip Pullman books 2nd hand??? probably not. I haven't read any yet. Don't worry people if you don't know what the hang I'm talking about but if you do please recommend me one to start with. Hey Ess, I have to go to the dentist first time since December 1997 and judging by the pain I've been in I think I will be having quite some of that local anaesthetic

― spectra, Wednesday, 2 October 2002 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I was trying to say GK Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" but it's easy to say "the man" when yr mouth is asleep. I think it's pretty famous (early 20thC detective fiction; he wrote the Father Brown books too) but I haven't really read much in the genre & only decided to read it after a Borges essay. & the title fascinates me, & er I think there was a visual reference in one of the Sandman books. I'm going to read the Thousand Nights And A Night (or The Arabian Nights or The Thousand And One Nights but they're not as eloquent as the first) before that.
& um I don't think Philip Pullman would be /that/ hard to find 2ndhand - if I'm up in Auckland in the next few months I can try and scour some used bookstores if you want. & there's quite a lot of online used bookstores but I suspect that's not v. useful to you.
(&, you haven't been to the dentist in five years? I wonder if it's one of those things you don't do after you leave home or something . . . do you brush yr teeth?)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I had local anaesthetic I tried eating lunch straight after and before I realised most of my food had fallen out of my mouth. I felt quite silly. Also I chewed up my cheek mainly because I was told to leave it alone and then I couldn't stop. My dentist keeps telling me there's nothing wrong with my teeth even though most of the time I eat my teeth hurt so badly, especially with sweet foods (duh). I don't think I'll be going to the dentist anymore due to the cost so I guess I'll just put up with it.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like the Father Brown stories... I always found local anaesthetic a lot of fun, though all I was lie in bed and dribble soup out one side of my mouth. GENERAL isn't so great, but interesting; I was under it for my wisdom teeth and vomitted blood for about an hour after I woke up. Sorry.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 2 October 2002 11:43 (twenty-two years ago)

YES I do brush my teeth, regularly! with red seal toothpaste! yeah it's one of those things you don't do when you haven't got much money.

― spectra, Friday, 4 October 2002 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

go the dentist that is, not not brush your teeth

― spectra, Friday, 4 October 2002 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

My parents paid for it, which is why I went. I didn't brush my teeth for years, though (haha I used to use my tooth-neglect as proof of my nihilism) but that's changing.

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 4 October 2002 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ive been under general a couple of times and both of those ive come out partially insane and blabbing nonstop for about an hour all of the things my parents really shouldn't know. HOORAY. but local is evil and i tended to drool all over the place when my mouth was numb.

― bri (bri), Saturday, 5 October 2002 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha Bri's general anaesthetic story is very funny - "Lucy is a slut!" Too right. I was given local I had about eight injections in my gums, and four teeth out in one go. The injections tasted horrible and my mouth went all numb and I had to chew on these cotton buds but I took them out too early. The dentist said I was really brave, like I was about 5 yrs old. And I never used to mind injections but now I really hate them and can't even watch them on tv.

― Livvie, Saturday, 5 October 2002 09:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Vomiting blood!! that's pretty damn rock n roll!

Novocaine tastes horrible and is horrible and my old dentist in Cambridge was an idiot who came up with such brilliant idiotisms as "oh c'mon, that doesn't hurt". I haven't been since 6th form. I went through a year of not even owning a toothbrush too [yeah, i'm really PUNK ROCK] so they're prob riddled with holes.

General anaesthetic is kinda fun. When i had my op a few months back i woke up to a string of expletives that i was shouting at passing nurses, for which they promptly scolded me and gave me a self-admin morphine drip. It made me feel itchy and yuck for days afterwards tho, which wasn't so great, come to think.

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 7 October 2002 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

at the dentist when I was a teenager, he had a portable personal cassette player with headphones for while he drilled and a list of tapes you could pick from and I always picked Elvis Presley and the dentist was surprised 'cause it's old fogey music and I discovered that latex gloves are sexy

― spectra, Monday, 7 October 2002 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Elvis remind you of the dentist now?

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

This thread is DISGUSTING! How could I misspell "vomited"?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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