Woe was Me
posted in The Kitchen Sink |For those who weren’t subject to my whining last weekend, I was plagued by the worse toothache ever. A pounding, aching, horrifying pain in my lower left jaw that just. would. not. STOP!! Urgh.
It started late Friday and persisted throughout the entire weekend – extra unfun because it was the weekend of the Frog’s suprise party and several of our best friends were in town for the occasion. I tried dosing it with painkillers, both topical and of the pill kind, but nothing seemed to work. Sadly, I’m afraid I was a bit of a bore at the Frog’s party because of the evil tooth. At the party, T. very sweetly tried to cheer me up with more pain medication and ice cream (let’s not analyze the irony of being given ice cream to cure a toothache) but nothing worked. It was great seeing everyone, but I’m afraid I spent too much of the night grimacing in the corner rather than socializing.
Well, I woke up last Monday morning to find the pain had mysteriously lessened. By Tuesday, it had disappeared altogether! I’ve been waiting in fear all week for it to returned, but today marks a full pain free week. So I celebrated by getting some candy after lunch.
(Now, I realize the wise course of action would be to see my dentist, but I had just seen my dentist a month ago. And the pain was in a tooth that I’d had crowned and which I knew was problematic. And I don’t have dental insurance so…well…I’m just going to keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best.)
[Update: Thanks for all the concern guys. I ended up calling my dentist to see if I should come in and he informed me that unless there’s more pain, it can wait until my next checkup.]