Tuesday, March 21, 2006

I must love pain

"You must love pain!" – RJ.

Well, it's not so much that I love pain as that I'm used to it. I got my first really bad toothache when I was nine or ten, and my parents were in no hurry then to act on it. The first abcessed tooth came not long after that.

So I know what to expect.

I grew up with what I think is probably the typical poor person's attitude about dentistry -- too expensive and too painful.

After getting past that first dentist -- the one with the huge hands -- I've never had a really unpleasant experience with a dentist. But old mindsets are hard to change.

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