Painting with Nitrous Oxide

I thought I was going to be painting under the influence today but here's what happened:

I just got home from the dentist. I've been to our new Utah dentist for a cleaning and check up but not for any procedures. Well, I broke a tooth last week and needed a crown. Usually I would be complaining about having to go, hate needles, hate spending two hours in the chair. But today was different. I made a conscious decision to be grateful instead of complain. I was thinking about how my dad had dentures at age 43. Thank god for modern dentistry, thank god for anesthetic. I'm sitting in the chair all fearless. I remind the dentist that I need nitrous oxide. He says, "We don't have that here. I don't believe you need it." I say, "well, what about morphine?" He doesn't think I'm funny. I go from fearless to near panic attack. I'm trying to think of some breathing and visualization techniques for fear but I can't focus because I'm trying to figure out if I can do this or I do need to exit stage right. Plus, do I really trust a guy who doesn't think my jokes are funny? Finally, my breathing and strawberry shortcake (not milk duds--those guys got me here in the first place!) visualization relaxed me enough to get my mouth to open. I'm home now and really glad I don't have a nitrous oxide brain fog. ahhh another demon down....