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Unread 2 Jan 2006, 22:27   #1
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Tooth ache.

Tonight I went to the emergency dental clinic to get my teeth looked at. Since friday night I have had an enormous amount of pain across the left side of my jaw, this has resulted in bugger all sleep for the last few nights. Last night was no different with me finally getting to sleep at roughly 4am, great, except I have to be up for work at 6am. So 6am arrives and I think bugger this and phone in to work, explain the situation and blag the day off before returning to bed. Upon re-awakening at 9am I resolve to find a dentist to get myself checked out. I haven't been to a dentist for 5 years, this could be tricky, finally after trying all sorts of emergency lines I find somewhere I can go. The appointment is set up for 7.30pm. Me and my mothers boyfriend arrive at the dental clinic as he needs to have a tooth pulled, we go in, the dentist prods, scrapes and does god knows what to my teeth all the while asking if this or that hurts. It doesn't, I've been in agony for days and with this man poking and scraping it doesn't hurt for some reason. He decides to take a couple of x-rays as he can't see anything wrong. A little while later after he's treated a few other people he calls me back in, after looking at the x-rays and having another poke around he still cant find anything wrong. This is the story of my life, I am in pain and there is no cause to be found, so he prescribes me a course of anti-biotics and tells me to call back in a week if there is no change.

This is not the first time this has happened.
A while ago I knackered my elbows up in mosh pit, effectively smashing the edges of the bone off. I went to the hospital to get it looked at, I can feel 2 new gaps where the bones used to join, I can also feel loose shards moving around where the gaps have formed. The nurse looks at my elbows, bends them this way and that before proclaiming that nothing is wrong with them as I never screamed in pain. So I leave the hospital with 2 elbows that are still playing up to this day.
A few years previous while I was in the air training corps I dislocated my knee cap. Extremely painful, when i straightened my leg again it popped back into place. So off we go to the hospital in Pershore where we were doing the training exercise. The dostors asked what had happened, I explained, they asked if I'd ever dislocated my knee cap before, I hadn't so the next thing I was told was that it couldn't have happened. I felt my knee cap slide half way around my leg and move back into place, and they tell me it couldn't possibly have happened. So I hobble from the hospital with a still knackered knee cap.

There isn't really much point to this post, except maybe to vent some frustrations that it seems I must have blood pouring out of a wound before it is recognised as a real injury.

Please feel free to add any hospital stories you may have.

Oh, and my teeth still hurt.
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