Today I went to the dentist, a place which I am sure many of you dread like me. Due to getting myself apprehensive about the pneumatic digger they put in your mouth (it sounds like that anyway if I remember rightly!), I hadn't thought of anything else. When I was called into the room, I lay on the couch. I gazed up at the big, bright light above me which shone on my face. The dentist sat on his stool behind my head and started talking to me as he usually does. As you know, I am finding that learning to lip read is a big enough challenge, however trying to lipread someone who's face is above mine and looking at me the wrong way around, is virtually impossible. If that weren't hard enough, he then covered his mouth with his mask! He put a big thing in my mouth and then he and the nurse left the room. I suddenly realised that I was right in the middle of them taking an x-ray of my teeth, but thanks to my dud ears and my poor lipreading I had never heard them ask me .
I lay in silence for the rest of the appointment, goodness knows what he was telling me through his green mask; it could have been about a new dental device or even him bungee jumping off the moon for all I know!
Thankfully I managed to avoid all forms of pneumatic drills and diggers!
