Last night, Roan and I had appointments at the dentist. I was there for a cleaning and he was there to get a tooth pulled. He went in first and wanted me to come with him. He was okay at first, but you could tell he was terrified. The whole procedure took probably 20 minutes (maybe more), because he kept asking them to stop because it hurt too bad. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t hurting as much as scaring him. He had lots of Novocaine, and I think he expected to not be able to feel anything at all. He stopped her once and said “Wait, wait, wait… I can feel the outside of my cheek. Should I be able to feel that?”.

While I was watching him squirm, and the dentist yanking at his tooth, I was reminded of all the times I had surgery or broke bones or whatever, and my dad was never able to watch, or sometimes even be in the room when they worked on me. I had a rough time watching him in pain, and I even had to hold his arms down at one point because he kept trying to grab at the dental tools when it hurt him. I felt terrible, but I knew it would be okay. By the time he was done, I was sweating profusely. I can understand now, why my dad couldn’t watch me get my appendix cut open while I was awake – it’s not necessarily the blood or what is being done, but more the feeling of not being able to do anything to help such a sweet little kid who is terrified and in pain.

He was supposed to get a metal spacer put in, to prevent the teeth from shifting, but since it took so long they had to rebook him. I also missed my cleaning, but got all the preliminary “new dentist” stuff out of the way (x-rays, measuring). We have to go back on Monday afternoon to finish what we didn’t have time for. Hopefully putting his spacer in goes a little easier.

This morning before school, Roan and I were talking about his tooth and how he can’t lose it today, or Holly won’t give him the $10 she promised. I told him he should start a bidding war, since he’s already been offered $10, and who knows… maybe he’ll get enough for the Nerf gun he wants. We came up with a plan to drive up the price, and he decided to rehearse before trying it. There’s a video of the rehearsal above.

I figure if Holly doesn’t bite, we can put that sucker up on ebay!