I would NOT have made a great dentist

I have an irrational fear of wiggly teeth and pulling teeth, and looking at the gross bloodyish spot that the tooth used to be in before it came out.



I am not even kidding guys.  This makes me want to throw up.  Like, right now.

Let me rephrase that.  Touching a wiggly tooth will most definitely make me retch.  You know, the pleasant feeling you get when you almost throw up.  Incidentally I had the spits the other day for no apparent reason.  TMI?

So yeah, pretty much the majority of my fears are irrational.  Probably one of the only rational ones is sharks/swimming in the dark in the deep end.  That is very rational, obviously.

So the whole 7 year old losing the teeth thing isn't exactly the stage that excites me too much.  Or my eleven year old loosing a BIG FAT MOLAR recently.  Ugh.  Seriously feel queasy as we speak/write/read.

It's funny because when I was in nursing school and on surgical rotation, I totally enjoyed watching several pretty bloody and gross surgeries being performed.  Like a hysterectomy.  So cool!  The doctor's hand was so deep inside this lady's belly, it was crazy.  Remind me never to get a hysterectomy.  And I saw an old man get a circumcision once.  Which was pretty gross, because like, Grandpa penis, but other than that, it didn't make me want to puke or anything.   I remember changing a dressing on a bed sore that was the size of a dinner plate.  I am not even kidding guys.  I actually really found it more interesting than puke-worthy.

I really wish I could have seen my C-section.  If I was less scared of my immanent death and the immanent death of my littlest peanut, I might have requested to somehow be able to watch.  I mean, how cool would that have been to see??  Since it wasn't exactly a planned c-section, I didn't have time to even think about it though. 

Anyway, I always thought it was kind of funny that teeth are the thing that get me.  Wounds, gashes, bloody trips to the ER?  No problem at all.  Wiggly teeth?  I'm so out of there. 

I guess it's safe to say that becoming a dentist is definitely not in my future.