Friday, January 14, 2005

Novocaine Nonsense

This morning I had a temporary speech impediment.
I decided to test out several things:
1. Spitting. A ridiculous act in which I stuck out my tongue and pushed air out from the sides of my mouth. At the same time, I spoke to myself in the mirror about how funny it was that I was attempting to spit.
2. Smiling. My bottom lip felt like a rising loaf of bread. I can't tell whether that sensation was from the perspective of the lip or my hand.
3. Leaving messages on my mother's work answering machine. Completely unintelligible. And I was laughing because at that point, I was not yet in pain.
As DDS filled my FOUR CAVITIES, he occasionally stopped to tell me about his progress thus slowing it down and increasing that brow-knitting, gag-inducing awareness of metal-on-tooth taste.
As for my progress, I'm currently experiencing the pain and the lack of bite togetherness I felt in my former life as a cavity mouth.

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