Brave stuff Judith 
My dentist will tell you that I’m terribly uncomfortable in her surgery… And that’s a huge step forward from what I was like just 5 years ago. I now go roughtly every 9 months – supposed to be every 6 but it gets stretched to allow for my fears… She’s a nice person and the complete opposite of the balding ginger haired bully that all the school children suffered in Finchley when I was a child – it’s amazing that even the parents of that time remember him 
As for vertigo – I can get frozen at the top of a ladder but if I give myself some time I can find my way down. The daft thing is that I have no issue flying light airplanes at low / big heights, so it’s not vertigo in my case. More a fear of ladders (which are dangerous beasts ) 