First time … in Denmark

Some tortures are physical
And some are mental,
But the one that is both
Is dental.
~Ogden Nash

For two days … I have started to feel a tooth aching. Last night it was as worse as it could get. I don’t know if I slept, or if was awake, all I know is that it hurt like hell and I just couldn’t think at anything. I think I swallowed last night a fist full of pills … painkillers, nerve calming pills, painkillers  … and in the end, antibiotics. Unending pain and half a face swollen like a balloon.

Soooooo … scared, in pain and extremely tired … I thought calling someone. But not my mom, as she would have become worried, scared and she wouldn’t have had how to help me. So I called someone else, half cried, my dear friend … and she with her husband managed to find me a dentist, next to me.

Dress fast, take the bike, find the location and gooooo. On the way … I still felt pain, but being closer and closer to the dentist … fade it a little bit. There … they got my name wrong: Theodora Boaca. I know, I don’t like my name either … at least when I was younger, but this is too much. Don’t like it either.

I was invited to sit on a chair, very new high tech devices there. Automatic X-Ray with display directly on the computer, automatic program for prescriptions and invoices. Pretty cool. I was jaw open not only because I was at the dentist but with everything that I saw there =)).

The dentist lady was very nice with me. And when she looked at my X-ray she said that I have two options. Either to have it removed (NO WAAAAY) … or to have a root canal. It was a much better option. But the hypothetical price to have it done was a months payment. So I was frank with her and told her that I can’t afford it. But as I am going home (now it’s for sure) in three weeks, I will do it then. So she prescribed just some antibiotics ( I am glad that I started taking this morning too) and painkillers.

With the receipt in hand, I was very happy to find out that it was very cheap. Also … in apothek, they have a very interesting system … where the people at the counter send an order to somewhere, and the pills come automatically from somewhere: I asked the guy, and he said that it’s from the basement. Interesting, isn’t it!?  

I started taking the pills, the pain is still there, but not as last night, my face is huuuuuuuuuge and I just can’t concentrate at anything. It took me 1 hour just to write all these.

I wanted to go to the gym today … I am not sure if I’ll be going. Also if the night repeats itself, I won’t be coming to school tomorrow either.

Kisses and biiiiig thank you to my friend and her husband! :*