My lower left wisdom tooth has been hurting again. I'm going to call the dentist today to finally get on the road to removing all four of my wisdom teeth.

I'm still very afraid of the pain and the possibility of death by general anesthesia. I'm beginning to think I should just go with local anesthesia, and let the gore of the procedure itself knock me unconscious. I'm so squeamish.

I kinda like the idea of forcing myself to face my fear of pain and blood. I'm hoping to get over it so that I can at least take needles without freaking out. I imagine having my wisdom teeth cut and wrenched out of my mouth won't be even close to the worst of it I'm going to bear children someday.