Good news: Today I'm going to see my friend Heather.
Bad news: She's works for a dentist.
She's going to clean my teeth and promised me after one of my posts about dentistry (and I seem to write about it a lot despite the angst/because of the angst) that she'd take good care of me.
Yesterday I mustered my courage and made an appointment.
For today.
Good, I thought. I'll get it over with.
Then I remembered the death-bed-repentance-flossing that I needed to do. Rats. Now there's no time for that. Yesterday when I sent Heather a facebook message telling her/warning her that I was coming to see her, she kindly wrote back that I should let her know what she could do to make me feel more comfortable.
I didn't answer, but now that I've thought about it:
Dear Heather,
Please pretend like I DO floss. Please ignore any problems that need attention. Please just hit me over the head with a shoe so I can be unconscious the whole time.
I love the comedian Mitch Hedberg as much as I don't like going to the dentist. Here's what he said about it all:
I can't get into the whole flossing thing. People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.
"You seem jittery."
"Yeah, I'm about to floss."
I'll let you know how it goes.
Assuming I survive.
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7 comments:
I know how you feel. Flossing is hard (espesially with braces!)
I HATE flossing. I do get a break when I'm pregnant because whenever I brush my teeth or try to floss I throw-up and well it's super fun....
The bad part is Ruby is 5 months old and Tabor keeps telling me that I won't throw-up so I need to floss.
I hope that I passed....you did awesome, by the way :) I feel flattered that I actually got to be featured in one of your wonderful posts....that being said, I give you leave to vent over how terrible it all was! Ha ha!
How do you sleep at night without flossing?
How do you sleep at night without flossing?
I am sorry I sent that twice. I'm not much.
I agree with Tabor (and thought he must have meant to put it twice--it was worth repeating). Flossing is just something I must do before I go to bed. Still cavity-free after all these years. Unfortunately, I'm not as consistent with my children's pearly whites & Lili and Ru have both already had cavities.
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