DEADLY ACHE

Sitting in the living room in front of the telly one evening, I noticed my 10-year-old daughter Lucie started wincing in pain and I turned to her, worried.

‘What’s wrong?’ I said.

‘It’s my tooth,’ she said, rubbing her right cheek. ‘It really hurts.’

‘My poor baby,’ I said, giving her a hug. ‘We’ll take you to the dentist tomorrow.’

Our dentist was still shut because of lockdown though so I called 111 instead, and in February this year I took Lucie to an emergency appointment at our local dental hospital.

‘I think it’s your wisdom tooth,’ the dentist said, looking at an X-ray of Lucie’s mouth as I held her hand and squeezed it tightly. ‘We’ll take one out now,