NO MORE PAIN!

Or at least, the worst of it is over.

I went to the dentist, and they took an x-ray to see how bad the cavity was. Turned out that the bugger was actually not only between the teeth, but it had spread to cover the whole surface underneath the many years old filling!

The only thing to do? Root canal. Yay?

So the dentist did the preliminary work on it, drilling into the canals and scraping out the nerves and pulp, then filled the canals up with antiseptic and acid (I understand the word "hydroxide" I'm no dumbass when it comes to chemistry), and put a temporary filling over it. I am to go back in a week to finish the procedure.

I love having decent dental coverage! Yay!

I also totally get the "root canal" reference from Little Shop of Horrors, now. It does feel like someone's thrusting in there when they scrape the pulp and nerves out.

Yummy!

I had Pho for lunch. It was vegetable Pho, though it wasn't vegetarian, because the broth was meat-based. It was very yummy, and I am looking forward to making my own vegetarian Pho at home someday.

I know which noodles to use, in fact, I have a pack of them at home, which I usually use when making pad thai.

But Pho was my food discovery of the month, and OMG so yummy, I could eat it everyday. I didn't even eat the whole bowl (it's very filling and comes in very large portions), but I think I might put some tofu in there for protein if I made it at home.

Boo! Hiss!

I was under the impression that I had taken my three Advils (to make it the 600mg I was prescribed, until I can actually make it to the drugstore, so *makes taunting noise*!!!) around 2:20PM, and my tooth was starting to bother me, slowly but surely.

Then I remembered that, when I was out to lunch, I glanced at the clock, and it was 1:15PM and it had been about 45-50 minutes since the Advil. So I'm close to one hour after the 4 hours that Advil usually lasts for me. No wonder my tooth was starting to ache again.

No worries, though, it's nowhere near as bad as it was prior to the novocaine injection, it's a low throbbing and medium-itching sensation (mild dental pain registers as itching to my weird brain, which, in turn makes me want to clench and grind my teeth to ease the sensation, but that "would be bad" right now... ouch!).

So I just took more Advil and I'm waiting for it to kick in.