3rd Root canal

11th july 08
The 3rd root canal in the same mouth. I don’t recollect the one that happened when I was 14, but today’s was the worst for sure. The doc drilled into my nerve with that terrific sound making device and all I did was shut my eyes real deep, crumbled the plastic cloth in my left hand and tightly grabbed the handle on the right with all the power I cud, rubbed my toes over one another and prayed. M not very sure whats wrong with me, but it seems 2 shots of anaesthesia did not manage to do any wonders on my tooth.
After a while, half my mouth was all numb, which was great. Finally! But root canal is a complete horror. There are these tiny files that they insert into the root and clean it. It actually feels like carpentry work is being done on your tooth and u can not feel the pain but the movements and the noises create a super frightening experience. It took one hour for the cleaning. My month was stuck open. The corners of my lips were paining badly. Lastly, she (dentist) asked me to rinse off, which was a task coz I cudnt feel half my mouth. So most of the water spilt out and I managed to ‘rinse off’ with the little left. I was bad. Anyways, she then laid some fibre-like thingys into the root and filled it up. I cud see with one half eye, but the instruments dint look nice so I decided to keep that half eye closed too.
All done, I’ll get my tooth cap on Monday evening. And I’ll also get the bill that day! Earlier she used to send it to mum straight away, but now since she isn’t here, I’ll have to pay it from my account. Dentist’s bill always digs a big pit in pocket, and with teeth like mine… even the doc made fun of me saying- every year one root canal, by next 30 years, all ur teeth wud be fake! Duh!
Anyways, staying here with aji-ajoba is the most relaxing part of all this. Aji is the best cook and she is so happy that I am here! She says, now we can make bhel and pani puri at home, which otherwise she doesn’t coz its only the 2 of them. But aji loves such food. We also made ‘amba barfi’. it tastes awesome! The colour and sweetness is just perfect..yummy…