Well, that's a bust.

I should never be allowed to take a child to the doctor's. I get stressed out, worrying about whatever pains my child might suffer, and man, that is not good for the kid to see. We tried to take Kouryou-chan to the dentists' today to have her front teeth looked at. They're broken and have to come out, but Kouryou-chan wouldn't try the gas at all, totally freaked out when they tried to do the topical Novocaine. The doc said that they could restrain her by force if needed, but after a point it became my responsibility to find another option. So we left the teeth in-- they'll ache Kouryou-chan until they fall out, and she understands that as well as she is able-- and got a prescription for penicillin (yeah, real old-fashioned penicillin) to take care of the obvious infection underneath.

Poor little girl. I hope she'll do okay with this. She's such a stubborn girl, too; once she gets an idea in her head that she's not going to do something she is not gonna do it, no matter what.