antibiotics and a regime of advil have already begun to reverse the infection, and reduce the swelling compltely.

A little pain from the emergency routing, and several shots in sensitive parts of my mouth, but otherwise I am repaired and back at it.

Wheeew…

Are you interested in herbal remedies? White oak bark tincture would be a good place to start.

Sadly, you really got Mom’s teeth.

I was gonna make a joke about spraying yourself with gasoline before you get to the dentist, as it is a very good distraction.

I hope you can work the surgery out, because you don’t want to loose any teeth.

definitely a mouth guard should be helpful.

I hope you get some sleep.

My dentist was pretty nice actually, he could see the pain I’m in and spared me the lecutre. Basic fact is that I need gum surgury, and can’t afford it. The longer I wait, the more likely that I’ll need to have a few teeth removed. Quadruple Bummer.

One thing I find deeply frustrating is that I believe that my stress level is fairly high naturally, and I grind my teeth at night pretty seriously. I sincerely believe that my vigorous grinding causes the teeth to move back and forth, and the gums to become irritated, and this is a huge part of this problem.

I explain this every time and he smiles at me, and says I need gum surgery. This may be true, and this flossing, rinsing, brushing, and immaculate mouth hygene may indeed be a losing battle, but I also think a night guard would be a serious benefit to my cause. The cause of keeping my teeth.

I’m alreadt on anti-biotics, and mega blast motrin, but they aren’t kicking in quite yet. There’s no possible way I’m going to chew anything, so it’s smoothies for dinner, and all the sleep I can steal between pulses of pain in my face.

Now I’m laying down, just trying to relax.