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Monday, September 29, 2008

It's not wise to keep Wisdom Teeth

You can never believe what has happened to me today, I went to National Dental Center. You can say it's one of the worse day of my life, literally. First, I spent a total of 7 hours all together with all the waiting, treatment, consultation, etc. Hey, that's totally waste of time.. Wasted my Monday just like that, in the most dreadful and fearful way some more. But then, to think again, may be the opportunity cost can be richer if I can get to enjoy all the nice foods and drinks again...

Secondly, I had the most terrible-tasting shredded chicken porridge in Chinatown! It doesn't even have visible chicken shreds, it's more like chicken skin and some big-pieced chicken chunks. And the worse part about this is that they tasted salty.. just salty. The porridge itself doesn't really tasted very well already. Geez.. sometimes, I really think why did people who don't really know how to cook, to sell food? No brainers..

Thirdly, I had to extract my right side wisdom teeth eventually. The part regarding this is that, I had swollen gum. Thought of consulting dentist on last Saturday, but unfortunately made a wasted trip down. And apparently my gum grew out of place and covered-up my right side wisdom tooth. It sure is my darkest nightmare of conscious to see a dentist and extract teeth alright. Long time feared it, never thought I would eventually still got to remove it surgically someday, and that day is today.

Lastly, in the eventful day of mine, guess how much I spent in total.. Let me calculate a bit [All dollar is referring to SGD]:
Lunch = $2.50
Transport = $2.60 (approx)
Dinner = $1.50 (approx)
Surgery (incl. medication) = $1,020.51 ($808.38 from Medisave)
Dental Consultation Fee = $98.95
Grand Total = $1,126.06

It's like WOAH!!! And it's like I only extract two teeth and it's this? In fact, I still have two more wisdom teeth to extract someday.. Goosh, I guess I got to spend more time recuperate this wound first, Hari Raya is here... I only wish now is that I can eat my delicious food when the time comes. It's really such a torment to see and not to consume them.

Oh, and after the whole thing, I spent around 1 hour waiting for the senior dental assistant to assure that my wound is ok and doesn't need further attention and then can send me away. After that, spent another 15-30mins waiting for the payment of surgery.. bla bla bla. After that spent another 30 odd minutes just to wait for the slow-poke pharmacy to issue me my medications. And I was so "turned-off" like a 'woman having mood swing' like that, what an unbearable state I was in. And it's the exact same state I was on the trip in MRT train home and got home. (the anesthesia said will last approx 2hrs)

Who would take care of me? :"( I guess the only reliance now is myself. Gotta put myself to bed now...

1 comment:

Jaded Jeremy said...

Awww come, come. Let me take care of you ;-)