Went to the dentist this morning.  It’s been a reeaal long time since I went.  It wasn’t good.  In fact it was real bad.  Xrays showed an infection in two teeth.  The dentist prescribed antibiotics. Another pill to take.  Actually, the gist of this blog is my inordinate fear of dentists.  It goes back to when I was a kid when novacaine was an option.  I never got it.  I’ve got the smell of a drill boring into a tooth etched into my sense memory.  Added to that a high tolerance for novacaine.  I need two or more shots to deaden the nerve.  I know, be a man. Bull.  I hate pain.  A root canal performed by a dentist who was losing his cherry…