Tomorrow (Tuesday), I'm off for my first dental appointment at the clinic located on Smoo's campus. The clinic is pretty scary looking: patients have no privacy and you get two people hanging over you while you lie there like a sacrifice with your mouth wide open. They don't remove teeth, either; very likely, the dentist will recommend a nearby clinic for the extraction. I'm going to request extraction of only one tooth: my nasty, upper-left wisdom tooth with the cavity on the side.
The Smoo clinic is located in the basement (!) of the campus main building (bon-gwan). Lovely. Because I'm faculty, I don't even have to make a formal appointment: I was told simply to walk in tomorrow at 11AM.
This will be my first dental appointment since... when? Since 1992, I think.
Holy shit, that's thirteen years!
No wonder I think I have several cavities. They say you're supposed to visit your dentist every year, but that shit is expensive in America, and it's been a while since I had actual insurance.
So now I find myself in Korea, at the mercy of Korean health care. I'll be sure to give you a report of how it goes.
If the dentist asks for a feces sample, I'm outta there.
But before I make my escape, I'll leave a sample. Oh, yes... I'll be sure to leave a big ol' sample.
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Monday, June 20, 2005
Kev finally hits the tooth doc
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