Khilood

Khilood is my dentist. A few weeks ago, I went to The Dental Care Centre in Lower Hutt because they advertised in the yellow pages for $35 initial consultation and xray which is pretty darn cheap. I thought I would go there and check it out and if I liked the dentist - I would get them to take my wisdom tooth out which was extremely sore.

Aunty Marilyn graciously wheeled Eden around the Queensgate Mall while I visited. Unfortunately, my initial visit was a Tuesday and I had a music practice that evening for Eden's dedication service - so I delayed the extraction and got put on a week's worth of antibiotics for the abscess.

Meanwhile, Eden got sick, then I got sick, Duncan was away for a week, so I finally showed up for the extraction yesterday!

I freaked out a bit when the injection came - I thought I was relaxed but apparently not and I found it difficult to stop crying. Oops. While the dentist was out of the room, the nurse was trying to reassure me and told me with dramatic gestures (which in my state was not actually helpful) how good Khilood is, that she was an oral surgeon in Iraq but in NZ she is only allowed to be a dentist etc.

Well, she is real good. Honestly, in a matter of seconds, the tooth was out. "That will be two hundred and fifty dollars thankyou" she says. I was in and out in less than 20 minutes!

I was a bit exhausted afterwards but I think that had more to do with the crying thing. It is now the next morning and it is not sore at all. I took paracetamol before I went to sleep last night - just in case - but I don't think I actually needed it. Compared to the initial tooth ache when I could only open my mouth one inch....