Toothsome Misery

[xyzzysqrl]

A few days ago, I developed a toothache. Arranging a dental appointment is rather miserable In Our Trying Times(TM) but I did so as soon as possible. Today was the appointment.

I have an infected nerve, and my options are "have the tooth removed" OR "pay a very large amount of money to be hurt by a root canal".

I am choosing to lose the tooth, but it cannot come out until July 8th, unless there's a cancellation and I get real lucky.

My nervous system is trying to eat itself in a very sensitive place, and my only comfort is that I did all the right things. ("Your oral hygiene looks perfect, really. I don't know why this happened. Internal tooth crack, perhaps.")

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. All I have to do is survive now, and I will survive. But I will not do it quietly or gracefully. I am going to be a fucking miserable lump. I am a seriously whiny bitch when I'm in pain, and I am in some BOY HOWDY PAIN DONTCHA KNOW.

So!

I just wanted everyone to know where I stood, or rather slumped and whimpered, and how things are going. I will try not to be a spiteful, hateful bitch on social media. But I am likely to be shorter-tempered than usual and perhaps lack patience for social graces.

I apologize in advance.

Comments

[rowyn]

Oh gosh, that's awful. D: When I had a cracked tooth, the dentist was able to extract it the same day I made the appointment to check it. Waiting three weeks for it is *hideous*. I hope there's a cancellation and you can get in earlier!

[xyzzysqrl]

Very much hoping the same.

[rowyn]

*crosses fingers*

anyway you are fully justified in whinging about it, it's utterly awful. D:

[silveradept]

Ow. Here's hoping that you can get things out quickly and with as little pain as possible.

[penguinmayhem]

and I am in some BOY HOWDY PAIN DONTCHA KNOW.


I thought you were from Maine not Minnesota.

[xyzzysqrl]

Sorry, neither.