>>>Did it hurt much.
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>>>I recently had some minor surgery on the sole of my foot. They had to give me a local anaesthetic so they injected it into the sole. The doctor said beforehand "this is one of the most painful places to have an injection" and he was right.
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>>GNNNNNG! I squeam at the thought of that! How about the dentist's novacaine needle in your gum above the front teeth, right next to the vegus nerve?
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>Since childhood dental trauma ( they used stone drills in those days ) have made me dentophobic, my dentist understands he needs to give me full novacaine before he can even clean my teeth. and he further understands I get one hour of max mix nitrous before he shoots me up with novacaine.
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>I don't mind the dentist so much anymore. Sometimes before he gets to the novacaine I tell him I just remembered a previous commitment and leave ...

Aye but you don't even have to put up with all that hooking and scraping anymore, now they have those ultrasonic gizmos.

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