A Day In The Life

Happy Merry Christmas 2009 - The dentist

I awake on Friday aware of an acute pain in my head, no my eye. Hmmmm, more eye cream? Yes, loads, I have a dentist appointment in an hour and a weekend of poker planned. Sitting in the waiting area of the dentist is when things first got noticably worse, something like tears was streaming out my eye down my cheek (under the trusty eye patch which was becoming saturated), I was running out of tissue paper. My appointment was due any second, should I leave?, the pain was increasing too, felt like a piece of rough sand paper was caught between my eyeball and lid, rough side facing in.

'Stuart Thomson please', fuck that's me, too late to leave, ok lets just do this, only a check up. I remove the now pesky eye patch and open up the spectacle for the world to see, I can tell it must be bad due to peoples reactions. The nurse, although smiling looks concerned as she asks, 'are you ok?', followed by a nervous laugh. The dentist too, after a brief explanation, immediately asks, 'are you ok to do this now?'. Well I had come this far, so after a few awkward minutes winking at the ceiling, mouth wide open, it was over. She did have some advice though, 'I think you should go straight to the hospital'.

posted by mrwhatshisface @ 8:19 pm