No, I have never had braces, as my child repeatedly pointed out. I offered hugs and ibuprophen.

The conversation went like this:

D:you can't imagine the agony, you never had braces!
Me:True, but I had a few other painful experiences. Ibuprophen will help some.
D: you are not allowed to tell stories of tonsilectomy without anesthesia!
Me: i wasn't thinking that, i was thinking childbirth
D: childbirth doesn't last 2 YEARS!!!
Me: you are correct, it is more like 20. Now, do you want ibuprophen?
D:I just want to whine, O.K.? And pancakes! WITH ibuprophen.

yeah it's not generally a sharp pain. it jut feels like your whole head aches, centered in your jaw and teeth. but there's nothing you can do about it. it makes you want to roll around on the ground and thrash and rub your face against something like a dog but instead you just have to sit there hurting.

I would not-eat for days after every time i had mine adjusted. not even joking, I think it delayed me entering puberty because I was already so skinny and pretty much not eating for 5 days a month for two years did not help that at all.

Cloud Tower? Nice! That thing is high on my to-do list, for some reason it always appealed to me way more than Rainbow Wall, even.

Or Punks in the Gym Day.

(if anyone gets that reference I will be very impressed.)

yikes! Don't tell the loyerette! I'm trying to sell the pink cowch.

I don't want to unload it, but it won't fit through a doorway into the extra room, and we got the big sectional from the tenants who moved out of our old place. No place to put it.

RIP pink couch. So many good times.

now that I think about it though, I don't recall my parents ever noticing. and it would have never occurred to me to ask them for help.

weird the stuff you think is normal until you try and tell someone else about it and you realize it sounds bizarre.

Not sure what my mother will do when she comes to visit, on account that I don't have a sofa at all now. I doubt she'll be thrillen when I tell her she needs to climb up to the mini loft behind my training wall.

yikes! Don't tell the loyerette! I'm trying to sell the pink cowch.

I don't want to unload it, but it won't fit through a doorway into the extra room, and we got the big sectional from the tenants who moved out of our old place. No place to put it.

RIP pinch couch. So many good times.

first 5.14?

Yeah, OR didn't feel much more than 11+ to me, at least the variation we did that skipped the hard first pitch.

Did ewe gheys zend it?

No chance you could have the pink couch magically transported to Canada?

Oh well then, you sleep in the loft, and your mom gets your bed, problem solved?

A couple of my old fillings had to be removed because a cavity started to form at the edge of them. Not sure if it was shoddy workmanship in the first place or what.

But because of that I think I only have a couple of my old metal fillings left. They now fill them with some white epoxy or something now.

yeah it's not generally a sharp pain. it jut feels like your whole head aches, centered in your jaw and teeth. but there's nothing you can do about it. it makes you want to roll around on the ground and thrash and rub your face against something like a dog but instead you just have to sit there hurting.

I would not-eat for days after every time i had mine adjusted. not even joking, I think it delayed me entering puberty because I was already so skinny and pretty much not eating for 5 days a month for two years did not help that at all.

Braces are the suck. I was a gap-toothed little bastard, so I am kind of glad I had them, but they were still miserable.

That's what my dentist did, except when she got the old fillings out, she claimed that one of the teeth had a crack under where the old filling was, and if she didn't put a crown there, she'd have to miss a boat payment. Oh wait, no, that's what I heard. I think she said something like "blah blah has to have a crown or your tooth will snap in half blah blah."

Course I could've told her to fuck off, but then I'd have had a nice naked half a tooth with a huge hole it until I found another dentist to get a second opinion. So now I just look like a russian mafia's scrawny nephew with a mouth full of bling.

GO

I am honestly surprised that a dentist would put on a gold crown these days. I have a crown on one tooth, and it is the white epoxy/ceramic stuff, whatever it is, the same thing that they make implants from. I don't think there was even discussion of whether to make it gold, or not. And it was really cool to watch it being made from the imprint.

you watched? I was sobbing quietly with my eyes closed, after that sadist ground my tooth down to the root with a dremel. The other dremel.

Some masked chick squirting water on it so it didn't melt, while burnt tasting tooth dust fell down my throat.

teh suk.

you watched? I was sobbing quietly with my eyes closed, after that sadist ground my tooth down to the root with a dremel. The other dremel.

Some masked chick squirting water on it so it didn't melt, while burnt tasting tooth dust fell down my throat.

teh suk.

I think I mentioned a few months ago how I had to get a minor filling put in on my upper incisor. It was weird, having that whole upper lip/nose area numb, but after the appointment, I took advantage of the numbness to do an EPIC nose hair pulling sesh. It was very satisfying.

drup. pretty much my zentiments.

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