because i am a big girl now…

i have decided to conquer my fear that traced back way back when i was i a kid.  And i have a speech deficiency(temporary) to prove it.

Yes world, and yes friends.  I will confess that I am afraid.. terrified of dentist… and his dentist chair… and his hand-held drill(with an awfully annoying sound)… and.. and…

But, not suprisingly, i came down to haunt me.  Not only did I have a tooth alignment problem, I developed a far more seriously case that requires an orthodontics expertise. I have a TMJ DisOrder or at least its sympstoms.  And after months of thinking, and talking myself out of it(read as ’scaring myself’), I decided(was forced) to do something about it.

I searched for a TMJ Ortho and a few months later, we agreed on giving me a splint.  I am too scared to get braces, because he to planned to ‘rip off’ my THREE wisdom tooth out of my gum. Ok. My dentist warned me that it will be awfully painful, it will be annoying, and it will be quite a work (with a mocking mad scientist laugh after). I thought i can handle.. But.. i was in for some surprise.

Aside from speech deficiency that I now have, my dentist said i will get used to it in about two weeks, wearing a splint has other ‘baggages’.  It is literaly an ‘effort’ to eat.  The slippery surface of the splint wont hold the food in place, so my upper jaw is doing all the work.  Cold drinks is also a drag. As if its adjusting my teeth, making it super painful.

And to top it all, I gives a ’shooting pain’ especially at night.  What the h*ll is ’shooting pain’?  Before this, I was asked by my dentist if i was experiencing ’shooting pain’.  And i thought… huwat?! for me there are no ‘types’ of pain… they are just PAIN. PERIOD.  But I was so d**m wrong.  SHOOTING PAIN, bloggers, feels like someone is digging an electric drill, on my case, on the sides of the forehead, in short, consecutive frequencies.  Or like someone is poking a pointed steel rod on your head.  That is SHOOTING PAIN.

Taking it off and putting it on, for brushing is also a lot of work and.. you guessed it right. PAIN. I should perfectly snap on my biters so that it wont hurt that much.

Im such a whiner… please bear with me.  I cant talk that much, and I am in pain.  I have to come back again next month for splint replacement.

I hope this is all worth it…

On the other news… malapit na birthday ni Jeremy David “Papa Je / Otik” Chua.. kaya… Ahem..

Happy birthday to you.. Happy birthday to you.. Happy birthday, happy birthday….. Happy birthday to yyyooouuuuu…