Really must say "ow!"

[nineveh_uk]

My face hates me because I had a filling replaced 23 hours ago and while that part of my jaw is absolutely fine, my temporomandibular joints are very unhappy indeed after the efforts of holding my mouth open. So I have spent today in lots of meetings (talking does not help) interspered with holding a microwaved wheat pillow to my face. Though at least tonight I get a proper dinner rather than porridge eaten very carefully, as I had an awful lot of local anaesthetic* and the feeling in my face didn't start coming back for nearly four hours. And what with wobblyness due to mixed eating, extra walking for the bus etc. today was not the greatest. But such things can always be an awful lot worse, and hopefully that's it for the next decade or so (previous filling had lasted 20 years).

And please can we have a sensible national Covid policy?? The current state of things is absolute madness.

*On request because I am a wimp, but it turns out that I also need a lot of it, as I could distinctly feel his initial check even after he'd given me a bit extra in the first place. At least I didn't feel the third injection...

Comments

[azdak]

Owowow, you are a heroine to have gone into work instead of curling up in bed with your hot wheat pillow and a sleeping pill. I hope everything feels fine tomorrow.

[nineveh_uk]

I have retired to bed with wheat pillow, Nytol (thanks for the suggestion) and the Volatrol gel that is on the bathroom mirror shelf but I only noticed while cleaning my teeth. Better late than never!