According to my girl, root canals rock. The procedure was no problemo. The girl bounced back into the endodontist’s examination room, leaving me in the waiting room. I was not prepared to be left in the waiting room, but the assistant told me I had to stay there, which kind of freaked me out, because it made it seem like REAL surgery. The only times I have not been in the room with my kids when they’ve had ANY kind of examination or procedure was when they had one of their several ENT surgeries (ear, nose, and throat, for those of you who aren’t parents or doctors).
So, while I chewed on Lifesavers and ripped recipes out of old copies of Food & Wine, the girl giggled with her endodontist. Half an hour later, the endo, an attractive young woman, comes to tell me that the procedure was successful and the girl was a star patient.
Then the girl appears and says: “I mastered root canals.” Though she pronounces “canals” like “ca-nalllls.” Which is damn cute.
We headed home and she ate a soft dinner of mac & cheese and then went to softball practice. No pain. No fear. She’s slept in the T-shirt the endo gave her every night since. She rocks.
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I tell you what, have a dentist or dental professional who knows effective pain management techniques makes all the difference in the world.
Glad she came through it with a smile!
Great to hear the girl is doing well.
I’m a little jealous however because my endo didn’t give me a tee last year when I had my root ca-nalll.
Ah, the soft food diet, or, as my son still fondly says, “Do you remember that time I fell on my teeth and could only eat sweet things?” Mmm, ice cream and chocolate pudding.
Wow, I feel like such a wuss. I cried like a baby when the novocaine wore off after my root canal last year.
so glad she did so well!
Breaking news is that I found out this morning that I might have to have a root ca-nalll! Age, not trauma. But you can bet I’m going to the girl’s endo. And I want a matching Tee!
Thanks for the update. I was worried for nothing. That’s the mom in me.
love that t-shirt.
Send her up to Chicago. I need a stand-in.
Abby had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled with much the same aplomb.
These lovely daughters!