What is something that you will never forget?

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I will never forget that Dentist drills were designed by a sadist :face_holding_back_tears:

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The old ones on articulated arms with the black drive bands certainly were. The noise and the smoke coming out of your mouth was terrifying.

The problem is that will always be my image of the dentist and why I still break out in a sweat as I sit in the chair even though I know that the high speed drill will be nothing. “Knowing” is not the same as believing.

Even worse when I was in India in the early 70s I went with a friend to a dentist to treat his toothache. The drill was the same horrifying articulated machine but instead of being electric powered it was pedalled by the dentist. I might have been a treadle, I can’t remember.

It was the stuff of nightmares

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A kid in front of me at the dental clinic threw up and nearly choked when given gas.Apparently he had a cup of tea too soon before his appointment.
Of course I told them I had too, which I hadn’t ,but it got me off for a few weeks.

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I won’t forget dentists back in the 60’s and 70’s. Stuff of nightmares with the drill, no local and the dreaded gas, which I had several times. It gave me dental phobia for years and even now, I’m still nervous when I go.

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So many things (including the painful dentistry of the 50s) but more recently, I will never again forget to close the valve off after emptying the pee bag :slight_smile:

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I have forgotten what I remembered :100:

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When my dad died

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The day the Twin Towers in New York City was attacked.

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The day I had my first heart attack
It was such a shock, but the most memorable thing was the strange feeling of calm and relaxation where nothing mattered anymore, just before I actually died for a minute or two.
I died again in the ambulance on my way to hospital. It had to stop at the side of the road while medics brought me back to life.
I will never forget that day, or that strange feeling of calm. It has made a drastic impact on my life thereafter, both physically and mentally.

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Forty years ago, this week, giving up smoking, just like that, after ten years of 60 a day.

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And yet they’re good.You may not have been treated with those in poorer countries.

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Prior to my heart attack I had tried to stop smoking my usual 20 a day on numerous occasions, I even stopped for six months once but decided to start again because I enjoyed a cigarette so much Spitty

The last thing I was doing before my attack was to smoke a ciggy
And that was the last cigarette I ever smoked. And the funny thing was, I just stopped without a thought and didn’t think about smoking again to this day
It was like I’d never been a smoker at all


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Yep foxy, ten years of 60 a day gives me the right to state, there is no nicotine addiction, just a mental one, and, you can’t get patches or gum for that :laughing:

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That was state-of-the-art as early as in the 1940s. We had those drills even up to the late 80s but the machine was electrically driven.

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Wise decision based on an instinct for survival that kicked in when you gazed into the abyss . I’m glad you’re still here and doing your bit to keep it that way, old sport.

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Thanks Dachs, much appreciated.
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An event like that certainly makes you look at life from a different perspective


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Seeing patients leave this world.

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It certainly does and I was impressed by how you described it and your feelings, which is probably not easy nor can one read it that often.

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Shiver me Timbers.
That’s one that I had forgotten. And has just given me the Collywobbles’ :laughing:
Age 8 > 10yo. School First Aider Sent me to a Dentist
Room dark. Windows taped up to prevent glass shattering
Sat in the chair. Mouth with drill in, wide open.
Whilst dentist prepared the ‘Foot Operated Drill’
Air Raid siren :rotating_light: Goes off. Doodle Bug coming in.
Dentist scrapers out, slamming the door.
Me with legs too short and equipment attached.
Unable to get out of the chair.
Bomb landed in the next street The complete window landed on the floor.
15mins later the Dentist returned. Took the drill out and said.
You don’t need that drilled.
As he scraped out a dollop of ‘Black Crayon Wax’. I had chewed at school. Gulp.
I’ve never been to a Dentist since.
A pair of pliers. Or tying Tooth to Door Knob. Sufficive’s.
PS. I don’t chew Crayon Wax anymore :innocent:

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21/10;25 just before 4pm.
I received an ugent call from my Two Week Pathway Cacer Team to inform me that all of my tests and scans etc have indicated i do not have lung cancer as suspected, but another condition that is routinely treated. I also have a referal to the respitory clinic for November :+1: That sure is a date I’ll never forget :heart:

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