1. Ask your contact for help the night before.
2. Wake up at seven in the morning to the words of, “You have an appointment in 30 minutes. Eat quickly.”
3. Grab entourage (three other people. Krystle is behind the camera).
(The balcony of the dentist office)
4. Head to Jolibee, the local fast food restaurant to meet your new dental surgeon.
5. Arrive at office, and get comfy with a complimentary blanket.
(Colorful blanket not pictured)
6. Get four shots of Novocaine, wait five minutes, then the drilling begins.
7. Two hours later, your entourage leaves to go to Starbucks. You are jealous. But they bring you a cookie you cannot eat.
8. After three hours in the chair, you find out you need to come back tomorrow morning for a few more hours of drilling and Novocaine.
9. You make your way back to the base, all the way smiling lopsidedly.
(See his hat? Both Krystle and I’s families have gone to Washington State University. He did not know what or where that was.)
10. Repeat steps 3-9 the next morning.
I love picture blogs, don’t you? What you don’t see here is me awkwardly chewing food for four days after this day (I still was doing it yesterday) or my funny facial expression when I could not feel my lips or the right side of my nose.
And in the end, it cost me less than 20,000 Philippine Piso, which is equivalent to about $450 for a root canal, two fillings and four ex-rays (about a $2700 bill in the States.)
More blogs to come! Sorry I have been so slow. Thailand updates will be coming soon.
