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I can’t even begin to describe how much better my face feels now that the problem with my teeth has been identified and dealt with. This morning started out ok, and I went to school. Around noon my face really started to hurt again, and around 12:30 I was close to tears. Me and pain really aren’t a good combo. So I decided to call my dentist. Voicemail. My dentist has lunch between 12:00 and 13:00, and apparently I reach the ‘fed up’-phase around 12:30, because this wasn’t the first time I heard that answering machine tape. I got on the train anyway and called the dentist at 13:00, and fortunately they picked up and had a spot for me. Which was god, because the trainride to the dentist was hell. Absolute hell. I really felt as if the entire left side of my face was going to explode.  I was half sobbing when I got on the bus, and there was this little kid staring at me, making faces. Little bastard. Was probably just trying to cheer me up though. eh.

I arrived at the dentist, and she took half a glance at the gap that once hosted my wisdom tooth and made a face. ‘yeah, that’s infected. we’re going to have to do something about that.’ So they rinsed it out with stuff, and prescribed more stuff for rinsing out at home and I just sat there thinking ‘is this it? my face is inflamed and all I get is a lousy prescription for rinse-out stuff?’  Feeling like I hadn’t gotten even an inch closer to getting rid of the pain, I once again burst into tears. On the dentist chair. Have I mentioned that I’m a complete pussy who can’t deal with pain at all? :p

but much to my surprise, I actually feel better now. It still hurts a little, but only where it’s supposed to hurt, as opposed to all over my face. Guess a good rinse with ’stuff’ really was all it needed. Eh.

And to think this could have been solved on friday, if that heinous, arrogant bitch of a dental hygienic instructor  had taken the time to actually check if something was wrong with my teeth or not. Some people just really deserve to be shot. 4 days of pain and 4 nights of pain and very little sleep, and it could’ve been prevented.