November 1

TOOTHACHE!!!!! Arrrrggghhhhhoooowwowo. Here's another strike against evolution, in fact, let's make it three, that's right three strikes you're out. Oh. Wait a minute that leaves it God's doing. Hmmm? Yeah, that'd fit, a way to punish us. i must be guilty of something, some price i forgot to pay, I must of did somebody wrong somewhere along the way. I did my time on the weekend, yeah the weekend. It was Thursday night I thought maybe I had cracked a tooth, it was sore so instead of taking the chance it might get worse over the weekend I thought I'd just yank it, picked up a pry bar from my hardwood tools, jammed it between two teeth and gave it a go. Ya know, they don't come out easy, when my eyeball felt like it was coming with I figured maybe the root's a bit long. So off to the dentist. Squeezed me in Friday morning. "Oh no, let's not pull it, you'll lose chewing surface." He says. I say, "Doc, I'm not using this side, I'll gain the use of these teeth when it's gone". He didn't buy the argument and proceeded with a "Root Canal". "There'll be nothing to feel pain on the weekend". He says. He was real happy with his work and I was on my way. The freezing came out later on in the day ,I monitored the pain throughout the entire night. BECAUSE I COULDN"T SLEEP. I call first thing in the morning and my dentist was gone for the weekend but they  could get me some painkillers. I can pick them up from the drugstore later in the day. So now I have to practice some mind over matter. I'm in a mind to have popcorn and a slurpee at Heather's this afternoon and it doesn't matter that my tooth is painful. On the way home I pick up Tylenol 3's with codeine and an antibiotic and drown some when I get home , they don't work, I monitor the pain for the entire night. Sunday morning I'm unable to make it to mass and think oh boy this isn't good. I actually survive Sunday, Deanie has hidden all the knives and other sharp objects around the house. Then around midnight Sunday she brings me a dose of morphine, I didn't ask where she got it, I didn't really care. Monday morning 3am I drop off, maybe the morphine, maybe pain exhaustion. I'm awake 6:30, the morphine has worn off, at 7:30 the dentist office has been expecting my call. I'm in the chair by 8:20, the dentist stands there with a syringe of freezing in his hand, says he doesn't understand. Stick the needle in my face and then we can discuss it doc." Raise you're hand if you need more freezing" he says. I almost hit him in the jaw when my fist goes up, the morphine, tylenol,advil cocktail Deanie fixed me has slowed me down, he sidesteps. He's found the problem, there's another root. "Yank it" I say. " Oh no" he says "we've done too much work on it" An hour and a half later he's done, he's real happy with his work again. Just in case he says he will give me stronger pain killers, asks me how I feel about demerol. Let me tell you a little something about demerol, I had a colonoscopy a few years back and the doctor comes in to do the procedure, says "Do you need medication?" "I don't know." Is my reply. " Ya, you do" she says. I don't remember the needle reaching my vein. If she had said count done from one hundred she wouldn't have heard the first n. Next thing I know it's 4 hours later and Deanie is driving me home. "Demerol will do Doc" I say. I actually have to sign for them at the pharmacy. So I'm home now and I'm not hesitating taking one of these little gems. I get a really, really, really good sleep. Wake up to birds singing, Deanie can't hear them but I'm pretty sure I can. I know you're probably concerned because Demerol is a narcotic and can be habit forming.  Not to worry, I have 19 more of these little gems to wean me off the first one.

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