at the dentists office

[Penguin]

If they're dental assistants, do they have to be A-cute angles?

Argh, caught again by the spelling nazi.  Perhaps it was a Freudian Slip, since I've been doing geometry problems all day. 

The dentist's office is a place where even angels fear to tread.

-Penguin

[fbWldcat]

they certainly know their trade Sir and my argument is merely based on the pain they cause me. But veterinarians have a longer training session, and I have had the experience of a dentist allowing my cousin to bleed out after operating, because he had republican sympathies in Ireland, my cousin nearly died from liver and kidney damage, caused by swallowing blood, agter being deposited in a waiting room in a Belfast hospital for 14 hrs

I didn't mean it in a derogatory manner.

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ok cap heres a crazy one, not about a dentist......13 years ago I had severe stomach pain, could not even walk, so I go to hospital, (that in itself is strange, had an alligator rip my hand up never went)  anyways come to find out I have accute pancreantitus so im in the hospital tube fed through my chest, no food for four months....at one point I am sleeping on morphine and demoral, I wake up and look over to some idiot male nurse who is about to switch on the pump for my TPN, I look at the tube and there is over 6 feet of tubing with nothing but air in it......I yell HEY.....real loud Right before he switch's it on..he jumps and turns around....I say wanna get the air outta that tube first......lol what a friggin idiot, I told the head nurse, I dont ever wanna see that guy again...I never did. I awoke literly seconds before he switched it on.......I dont know but seems like someone was watchin out for me.        ~Paul

[CAP1]

they certainly know their trade Sir and my argument is merely based on the pain they cause me. But veterinarians have a longer training session, and I have had the experience of a dentist allowing my cousin to bleed out after operating, because he had republican sympathies in Ireland, my cousin nearly died from liver and kidney damage, caused by swallowing blood, agter being deposited in a waiting room in a Belfast hospital for 14 hrs

dam! sorry to hear that sir. i've never heard of that over here yet......might get to that quality though if certain things happen in a couple of years..........and glad your cousin is ok.

[CAP1]

Sissy, try having open wrist surgery to remove glass out of it for over an hour without any anethesia or pain killers sometime.  Priceless was the look on the doctor's and nurse's faces when they realized they had given me none after the procedure was finished. 

Nurse - "Want more pain killers for the pian?" 
Me - "I haven't had any yet, but I'd love some."
*dead silence and blank faces for 5 seconds by the three nurses and doc in the room*
Doc - "Give him a full dose of morphine."
*couple minutes pass as a nurse goes out to fetch the morphine and the rest of them quickly leave the room.  the nurse returns with it and checks my chart.*
Nurse - "Now you're sure you weigh 280 pounds?"
Me - "Last I checked, probabley a little more."
*huge grin emerges on the nurse's face as he draws the morphine into his syrynge.  As he is injecting it into the IV line he tells me this is the largest single dose of morphine he's ever administered, and for me to relax and enjoy... that I did*

it's funny you say that.

 a few years back, i had to go to the emergency room, when i sliced my arm open. it literally poured blood, like someone turned on a spigot. got to the er, and they did(thankfully) remember to give me a local while they cleaned it, and stitched it. what was amazing, is that i have trouble looking at stuff like that. yet i could not look away. partly because i was amazed to see them repeatedly sticking that dam needle in my arm, and i couldn't feel a thing.

[CAP1]

ok cap heres a crazy one, not about a dentist......13 years ago I had severe stomach pain, could not even walk, so I go to hospital, (that in itself is strange, had an alligator rip my hand up never went)  anyways come to find out I have accute pancreantitus so im in the hospital tube fed through my chest, no food for four months....at one point I am sleeping on morphine and demoral, I wake up and look over to some idiot male nurse who is about to switch on the pump for my TPN, I look at the tube and there is over 6 feet of tubing with nothing but air in it......I yell HEY.....real loud Right before he switch's it on..he jumps and turns around....I say wanna get the air outta that tube first......lol what a friggin idiot, I told the head nurse, I dont ever wanna see that guy again...I never did. I awoke literly seconds before he switched it on.......I dont know but seems like someone was watchin out for me.        ~Paul

dam dude!!!! that's not even close to funny!!!!!

 and yes, you definitly DID, or do have someone looking over your shoulder.

 my guardian angel is my grandmother. 

and seeing as she can see more of the crap i do now than when she was alive......she had it easier when she was alive.

[Penguin]

ok cap heres a crazy one, not about a dentist......13 years ago I had severe stomach pain, could not even walk, so I go to hospital, (that in itself is strange, had an alligator rip my hand up never went)  anyways come to find out I have accute pancreantitus so im in the hospital tube fed through my chest, no food for four months....at one point I am sleeping on morphine and demoral, I wake up and look over to some idiot male nurse who is about to switch on the pump for my TPN, I look at the tube and there is over 6 feet of tubing with nothing but air in it......I yell HEY.....real loud Right before he switch's it on..he jumps and turns around....I say wanna get the air outta that tube first......lol what a friggin idiot, I told the head nurse, I dont ever wanna see that guy again...I never did. I awoke literly seconds before he switched it on.......I dont know but seems like someone was watchin out for me.        ~Paul

You, precisely.  It's called survivor's bias, if you hadn't survived, you wouldn't be here to tell us the story.

-Penguin

[grizz441]

is now. 
this was the other night at around 830pm eastern time. it got up to 40 at one point, outnumbering those in the mw arena.
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a 109f mere seconds before he succumbs to the guns of my p-38g. 
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Well played.

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Penguin~ I was dead asleep....I awoke completly aware even though I was doped up hardcore......it wassnt me bud, it was "the man upstairs" or an agent of his.

[Denholm]

Don't bother, Ink. Penguin is a pure slate of logic. One day he'll realize logic isn't the source of life or advice. Unfortunately, I feel that will be after the butcher ignores a warning on his 5lb cleaver which reads, "WARNING: May permanently damage slates of logic."

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Den~that's more sad then anything else....

[Penguin]

Don't bother, Ink. Penguin is a pure slate of logic. One day he'll realize logic isn't the source of life or advice. Unfortunately, I feel that will be after the butcher ignores a warning on his 5lb cleaver which reads, "WARNING: May permanently damage slates of logic."

Which is also illogical, not to mention stupid, dangerous, and unlikely since modern butchers use stationary meat cutters, not cleavers.

-Penguin

[grizz441]

Argh, caught again by the spelling nazi.  Perhaps it was a Freudian Slip, since I've been doing geometry problems all day. 

The dentist's office is a place where even angels fear to tread.

-Penguin

Geometry? What class.

[Chugamug]

When the subject of dentistry comes up, all I can think of is the movie "Marathon Man".

Is it safe?

[Babalonian]

it's funny you say that.

 a few years back, i had to go to the emergency room, when i sliced my arm open. it literally poured blood, like someone turned on a spigot. got to the er, and they did(thankfully) remember to give me a local while they cleaned it, and stitched it. what was amazing, is that i have trouble looking at stuff like that. yet i could not look away. partly because i was amazed to see them repeatedly sticking that dam needle in my arm, and i couldn't feel a thing.

I get a kick outa that too, I'll fondle my lip after a dentist visit until the numbness goes away.  I traditionaly look away when I get a shot or something, just makes it go quicker with less discompfort I think, but kinda similar experience with me in the ER that day.  I guess I was used to the pain by that point from the accident because I was just entranced by watching and "feeling" the doc work inside my wrist.  I thought the last bit of stiching it all back up was the worse of it though, but not the needle part itself surprisingly, I grinded some teeth when he was stiching it back up and doing all that pulling/stretching, and feeling the thread run through the skin, made the salamanders and probing seem like... well, just salamanders and probing.

ok cap heres a crazy one, not about a dentist......13 years ago I had severe stomach pain, could not even walk, so I go to hospital, (that in itself is strange, had an alligator rip my hand up never went)  anyways come to find out I have accute pancreantitus so im in the hospital tube fed through my chest, no food for four months....at one point I am sleeping on morphine and demoral, I wake up and look over to some idiot male nurse who is about to switch on the pump for my TPN, I look at the tube and there is over 6 feet of tubing with nothing but air in it......I yell HEY.....real loud Right before he switch's it on..he jumps and turns around....I say wanna get the air outta that tube first......lol what a friggin idiot, I told the head nurse, I dont ever wanna see that guy again...I never did. I awoke literly seconds before he switched it on.......I dont know but seems like someone was watchin out for me.        ~Paul

Lucky catch.  Would that of lead to complications or just a lot of gas though?