I am not particularly fond of pain. Sure, I can handle it, I’m not my husband, after all. But, if given the choice, I’d just rather not. I enthusiastically received epidurals with all three kids, not for a moment having any desire to brave the pain of labor. It was a no-brainer for me.
Lily had a cavity filled yesterday. I felt horribly for her, but selfishly, was a tad excited for the blog potential. I brought my video camera and was armed and ready to document my daughter’s first introduction to drugs. Like any good mother would. Remember David after the dentist? Lily would put him to shame. She acts like she’s on drugs half the time anyway, so this was going to be good.
But she refused them. The Novocaine needle scared her and the laughing gas mask was not going to happen. {And, no, the dentist didn’t seem to appreciate me asking for her share instead} So, my kid did got her first filling sans drugs. She gripped the chair and flinched a bit, but that was it. What a disappointment.
And she insisted on going back to school after her appointment instead of shopping like I suggested.
I’m beginning to wonder if she’s really mine.
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Wow. She’s Superwoman!
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Wow I can’t even get my teeth cleaned with out the gas! She is so brave!
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I am in awe of your little girl! I could not have done that. Even as an adult, I would take the gas if they’d give it to me!
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My teeth actually hurt, right now, thinking about her doing it without drugs. What a brave girl!
The shopping thing though, that jus makes me wonder if she wasn’t already on something! (kidding of course!)
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OH MY GOD. I am flinching right now, just reading about it. HOW could she do it without any painkillers? The horror!
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Scary Mommy Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
The poor kid has watched Little Shop of Horrors too many times and the idea of the mask terrified her. Poor kid!! And, it wasn’t a bad cavity. But, still.
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Wow, your daughter is very brave! I don’t blame her, needles scare me too…however, the thought of a dentist drilling on my teeth w/o pain meds makes me curl up in the fetal position. OMG, what a trooper you have.
I was supposed to go to the dentist yesterday (haven’t been since early 2007) but I chickened out! Perhaps I’ll gain the courage to pick up the phone and reschedule my cleaning!
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Wow…she’s tough. I cry just walking into the dentist :(
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what a girl! sorry for your lack of footage!
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Holy cow…..that is one brave little girl. There is no way on gods green earth that I would ever do something like that.
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Wow. That’s just crazy. Baby Girl keeps asking me when she is going to get to go back to the dentist. These kids are nuts.
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Um, that ain’t right. Sounds a bit like a book I read too :)
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Wow! Tough kid – no blog fodder after all.
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Really? No drugs? Oh boy. We’re going back for fillings on Monday. Shall I see if I can get the blog-worthy video for you there?
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Gasp! What’s up with kids liking school so much they would skip shopping?
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Scary Mommy Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I know, right? So fucked up.
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That’s one brave little girl. Or one exceptionally good dentist. I HATE the dentist. Hate him. Still brush my pearly whites though. :)
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She’ll learn soon enough, drugs are good. Then again, maybe you don’t want her to know that.
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–>WOW, I’m impressed. I am going for a scheduled cleaning tomorrow and am already dreading it. The worst is that my hygenist carries on a conversation the whole time and I can’t respond except with a grunt or an extended eye blink.
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Wow – good for her!
I just got a cavity filled myself, the first one in 20+ years and imagine my surprise to find that they still used a novacaine needle. My girls’ dentist uses some sort of gel stuff that numbs their gums and teeth if they have a cavity! So I asked for the same stuff and my dentist just looked at me with pity and reminded me that he was not a pediatric dentist. Apparently, grown up dentists use needles. Wow – like that’s supposed to be something to be proud of?
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You sure you didn’t coach her to go without novocaine – you know, for the blog potential?
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Scary Mommy Reply:
November 19th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
LOL, no. Kids on drugs are way more entertaining.
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Sure, I can handle it, I’m not my husband, after all.
LOVE IT.
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Color me impressed! My oldest daughter had to have VERY minor oral surgery last year, and freaked out so much about the shot and the gas mask, that I had to reschedule the appointment. The oral surgeon wrote a rx for Valium and suggested she take it an hour before the procedure.
I thought you’ve GOT to be kidding me. It’s a shot and three stitches! She’s got to learn to cope here. We talked over the procedure, exactly what would happen, how it might feel at great length. And she was FINE! Calm and brave and totally FINE.
In spite of the lack of fodder, aren’t you thrilled with Lily’s bravery???
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Wow. That is very impressive. I have a feeling they are going to have to hit Bram over the head with a shovel to knock him out. And I will be using the laughing gas…..
Lily doesn’t know what she is missing out on! (is that wrong to say that? she is a little girl and all.)
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What a champ!! I don’t even have my teeth cleaned without asking if they can just knock me out cold.
And no shopping?! Maybe she didn’t hear you right haha. :)
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Like my middle boy. He can take stitches and is just interested. Psychos.
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When I got my last filling, the dentist asked me if I wanted novocaine and I was like, listen, you can just put in my file that the answer to that will ALWAYS be yes. What a trooper. And to go back to school, too. I think she might be a changeling. Sorry, but your real child is being raised by fairies.
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no drugs no gas? is she human? do you and the dentist still have all your hair? wow.
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Wow! That is seriously impressive.
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Such a brave little girl! That’s amazing! And the dentist went along with it, too? But turning down a shopping trip? That’s just wrong!
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No drugs AND no shopping. Yeah, she wouldn’t be mine either! ;)
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Holy Cow! What a trooper!
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Wow, what a little TROOPER!
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Oh my gosh! So funny : ) Kaish and I had a little Dentist Adventure this week ourselves. I am also NOT the mother of the year, let me tell ya! Definitely not the freaking mother of the year…
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Oh my! My doctor won’t even give Novocaine for fillings. :( It sucks. Funny I can’t handle a filling, but I insisted on going natural for my delivery. It hurt like an SOB, but I’d do it again.
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I am thoroughly impressed!
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Impressive indeed! I am the first one to run to the epidural, pain meds, whatever I need when I need it! And I also hate the dentist.
Good for her!
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Devil child. I mean, she LOOKS like the other two, but now I’m questioning it too.
If she starts relinquishing control over EVERY LITTLE EFFING THING in her life, then I’m gonna start a conspiracy theory blog about your pregnancies.
Bravo, little Kanye artist. Bravo.
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No drugs? Seriously? Wow, I am IM-PRESSED! Go Lily.
She’s not “scared” of you either, is she? ;-P
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WOW! That is insanely brave of her! Although the shopping thing? Is a little bit crazy ;)
Go Lily!!
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Not your hubs after all. Oh, you’re so bad. But brave little gal you got there.
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Man, that is some pain tolerance!
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OMG! The kid is amazing! I would have to have extra helpings of novocane.
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Wow! What a kid! I, on the other hand, can’t even get my teeth CLEANED without that numbing gel smeared all over my gums. A couple months ago, my 7 year old son had THREE small cavities drilled and filled with no novacaine. He was so terrified of the needles that he insisted they work without it. My her0.
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Wow! How old is your daughter? Mine is just about to turn 4 and then her dentist wants to give her the laughing gas and novacaine – not sure I want either … She doesn’t have cavities – they just want to put sealants on.
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