I took Hila to the dentist this morning. She had a lot of cavities so the dentist had suggested sedation. I won’t go in to how bad my kid’s teeth are because it makes me feel like a failure as a mother. Her first appointment wasn’t going to be until February, but they had a cancellation so Hila got to go in this morning. First of all, let me just say, seeing your 5 year old on drugs is creepy. It is so weird how fast the drugs take hold. And then its bizarre how they disconnect your mind from your body. She couldn’t walk or talk and her head was wobbly like a newborn. If you didn’t know she was on drugs, you would probably have assumed that she had severe cerebral palsy or something. It made me think about how primitive we must be in medical science. We can unplug the brain but we can’t put it back together. If it is so easy to disconnect ourselves from our brains, why can’t we connect it back up in children who are born with brain damage? I’m on a tangent. Anyway, I got to go back with her since she was out of it and watch the whole procedure. She was only having 1 side of her mouth repaired today. Two crowns and 2 fillings. Yeah, I know, its horrible. Anyway the other thing that I was amazed at was how fast all those procedures happened. I’ve been to the dentist for a crown before and not only does it take more than one appointment, but each one probably lasts at least an hour. Hila was in and out of the dentist chair in about 20 minutes. (That included strapping her down to a restraint table and getting her to respond, verbally to a question afterward.) The whole appointment was 1 hour and most of that was spent in the waiting room. Why can’t the dentist be so fast when I need something done?
On the way home from the Dentist, Hila was still pretty out of it. She insisted she wanted to go back to school. She can’t even walk, but she wanted to be at school. And then she kept batting at imaginary strings in the car. She is home now watching TV with some milk. She asked me a while ago, “There are two of everyone on TV, do you see that?” Poor thing. She still can’t walk strait. They said she should be back to herself by lunch.