glad i've never done that before

I've always been a strong believer of laughing gas over the anesthetic shot at the dentist. I don't know why, but the idea of a GIANT shot being used to get rid of pain sounded ridiculous to me. Every time I've been to the dentist and it gets to the time where they try to point this massive needle in my mouth, I've always cried like a baby and asked for something much more easier.

Well, I am glad I have always cried like that baby and asked because today I had the worst dentist experience of my life.

About a week ago I was munching on a gummy candy. Sort of similar to peach rings back in the States, when I felt something extremely not gummy in my mouth. At first I panicked and assumed that I had just ate a bug or something. But no, I realized it was a piece of my tooth.

Yes, eating a gummy candy cause a filling in my lower tooth to come out. Thanks Israel.

So today I woke up, after a lot of refusal, and went to the dentist to get it fixed. First, the lady cleaning my teeth actually broke a part of my tooth off. Then my mouth bled more than I've ever seen. These people were crazy.

After I went to the next room to get this cavity cleaned. Now, since I've never had the shot I've just heard that usually they put some Novocain on your mouth before they do the shot. Regardless, after finding out there was no laughing gas, I had to rid my fear and understand I was going to have to get that shot.

I honestly felt that I was getting tortured. First, no Novocain was put before this shot. Second, the shot lasted for 15 seconds ( I counted as I tears ran down my face). And third, it was the worst experience of my life.

After waiting ten minutes, All I felt was puffyness and that my face was ten times big, he started to poke. But no, after all this needle business, it still hurt!!!

He finally just said he was going to start and to raise my hand if it killed. Well, basically I could have raised my hand the entire 30 minutes, but I didn't just to get out of there quicker.

I don't know why I got the shot, it did nothing. All that happened was my lip looked fat for two hours, but that was it.

I came home to find my roommate saying how proud she was off me for going to the dentist, followed by the words "Why the hell would you ever go to a dentist in Ramla?"

I'm not sure, but I'm never going again. Ever. And back in America, every time I go to the dentist I will cry like a baby until I get laughing gas.