I’ll start by saying I’m an extremely anxious dental patient after some awful experiences in the past. After circa 3 years of putting it off I’ve got the first of 2 appointments for a very deep clean with local anaesthetic this afternoon and I’m already shaking and feel sick about it.
They’ve arranged for me to have a decent gap between anaesthetic application and treatment (a problem in the past has been a Dentist refusing to believe me that it hadn’t taken effect after 5 minutes) and I’ve got my earphones charging and a good podcast downloaded. I think having something to occupy my hands would help as I’ve gripped my own hands so hard I’ve left marks in the past. No fidget toy or time to get one, would I be unreasonable / completely ridiculous to take one of DS’s tiny jellycat toys to hold / grip / stroke? I’m nearly 42 FFS but I can’t seem to talk myself out of this absolute fear of the dentist and I really want today to go ok so I’m not even worse next week 