Dental Drama! I Can't Be Enlightened With A Toothache!

A "Dental Monitor" - They Exist and They Make Things Worse, Much Worse!

Hello Fellow Travelers!

This is why I always try to be prepared for the next disaster!  Zombie spider invasion?  Not likely but you never know.  Dental visits gone wrong?  Much more common but just as painful.  I had a dental emergency, I cannot begin to handle another source of pain or stress.  I'm tapped out!  So I called my regular provider and readily agreed to some services.  Tedious, expensive, nothing cosmetic, boring infrastructure stuff, right?  Wrong!  Not even close!

I went to my regular dentist and was told she was "out" and there was no indication of when she was returning so her "partner" would be treating me.  OK, fine, let's move on.  In other words, "whatever".  "Dr. Mengele" kept me waiting for 90 minutes and proceeded to drill (Through the planetary core?  To China?  For oil?).  Two hours later, "Dr. Do-very-little" announced I had a tooth requiring "a lot of work", and his partner "could figure it out".  Fine.   I'd had enough of "Dental Monitor Dude".  I came back a few days later, as scheduled, to find "Dr. FeelBad" would be treating me.  Oh joy.  He fired up the drill and I held my breath.  Many hours later I was battered and bruised but finished!  Or so I thought...

There was a lot of pain, money spent, time elapsed.  For what?  For nothing!  My PS and I discovered that "Dr. Strange" didn't do a lot of the work we had paid for!  I have to go back!  In the meantime biting is blindingly painful, so I can't eat - it's like having your jaw wired shut.

The PS isn't pleased either so I've addressed the situation like a Japanese Mob Boss in a Quentin  Tarantino film ("Kill Bill").  I didn't decapitate anyone but I think I made my point.  Using a translator (the PS) I communicated my dissatisfaction to my dentist.  My physical losses were addressed, the finances adjusted.  I don't care about pain.  Hunger is irritating, nothing more.  But the most important loss cannot be repaid, never can be adjusted, and that is the loss of time.  I feel the passage of time acutely, once time elapses you lose it forever.

Time is the one commodity that cannot be negotiated, bought or sold.  Time is both infinite and finite.  Dental visits are no way to use it.