My family is insane.

Mar. 29th, 2004 at 7:25 PM

Was talking to Mom today, and found out something interesting...

Apparently, her great-grandfather (my great-great-grandfather) had a career as a South American mercenary. I kid you not. But he didn't die on the field of battle. Oh, no. He actually committed suicide.

Because he was afraid to get a tooth pulled.

Insane.

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elyscape

Mar. 29th, 2004 07:27 pm (UTC)

.......WTF?!?

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sabyr

Mar. 29th, 2004 09:05 pm (UTC)

Ever had a tooth pulled?

I had a bad wisdom tooth taken out with just a local anaesthetic. Oh baby! That hurt.

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elyscape

Mar. 29th, 2004 09:40 pm (UTC)

I've had 4 teeth removed with local anesthetic, and a wisdom tooth removed with knock-you-out-you-dead-now anesthetic. None of them were too bad.

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brentdax

Mar. 30th, 2004 01:10 am (UTC)

Just baby teeth. My baby teeth were obscenely late in falling out, and sometimes forgot to do so before the new tooth erupted in the wrong place. Thus, lots of tooth-pulling when I was little. Plenty of anesthetic, though, so it didn't hurt much.

In fact, I'm short adult molars, with nary a wisdom tooth in sight--I'll need to have a pair of bottom molars implanted in a few years, or I'll lose the corresponding top ones.

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ph00tbag

Mar. 30th, 2004 05:57 am (UTC)

Your dentists must not be very good. I've had one tooth pulled, and I didn't feel it at all. Apparently it bled a lot though, because I could taste the blood.

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