I made it ! I can smile now !

I gathered all my brave genes and went to the dentist today. Unfortunately they made me wait so I got more and more nervous as the minutes ticked away. Then a nice looking lady said my name and I followed her into the depths of Hell. Okay, it wasn't that bad. Actually my dentist was very non-talkative today.. I am guessing it's because it was right before lunchtime and she couldn't wait to get out of there! I heard her stomach roar quite a bit.

Anyway, she said 'So you chipped a tooth'? I said ' Yes I bit down on something hard' and she said 'Let's take a look'. And then she proceeded to fix it. It took her 15 minutes and I didn't feel a thing. The weird thing was that she didn't check for cavities and she didn't send me to the special 'Why don't you floss properly-lady'. What's that about? I believe.. this is just my suspicion.. that the whole dentist office has given up on me because I keep cancelling appointments due to my anxiety. So now they just figure 'Let her teeth rot, who cares'.

It's just a guess, of course. They might care. In any case I am so glad this is fixed and I can now smile very widely and talk freely again. I have been so terribly self-conscious during the past two weeks because I couldn't open my mouth without someone pointing out to me that my tooth looked funny.

I am one brave woman.

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