so if you can be flexible

Well, my bosses can be jerks, but I think if I'm crying from pain they'll be okay with letting me go when I need to. We'll see.

Root canals are not usually painful, particularly when compared with the pain they take away. I usually end up with sore areas on my jaw from my mouth being held in an awkward position while it's numb.

I think dentists pretty much plan on new patients arriving in pain at short notice.

Do you know what days of rain after much drought can reveal? Major leaking around the bathroom fan. Sigh. I guess I need a roofer.

I think the antibiotics are beginning to get to the sinus infection that will not die, but it would be nice to not feel like crap. Note to self: Do not scare yourself by eating beets while taking a drug which has "blood in urine" as a serious side effect.

I hope it's not your tooth but better to get looked at before it decays or something (that happened to me).

I am so STUFFED right now. Oh my god. We made this pork roast recipe that was on the Paula Deen show -- pork roast with garlic shoved in parts of it, then rubbed with a mix of adobo seasoning, sazon, and sofrito and cooked. And Spanish rice.

It's called Rockin Pork Roast (or something like that) and the recipe is on food tv. I highly recommend it, plus it was easy.

My root canal was more tedious than painful, as mentioned upthread. And the relief from the pain was totally awesome.

I'd say getting the crown was more painful and just as tedious.

Oh, goodness. You know, I've done really well this week. I love these kiddos, and even though there's been sickness and blah blah blah, I'd totally do this again. And, it's reinforced that I really want to be a mom...and that I think I'd be a good mom.

But you know what just did me in? Chuck E Cheese's. My god. That place is hell.

Me: "Oh god, I can't eat anything because it hurts!"

The Boy: "Not even peanut butter from the jar?"

Me: ....

Me: [running to kitchen] "I love you more than Batman right now!"

(As I was rummaging in the pantry to find the peanut butter, I heard from the dining room, "Right NOW?!?" Heh.)

Mmmmm. Peanut butter....

I have TMJ so root canal is usually hellish for me. The dentist who did my last one had to use a child-sized block for my jaw.

The upside to this is that my insurance pays for nitrous oxide so I don't usually give a shit how uncomfortable it is.

Steph, if you do need a root canal, see if the surgeon will let you use an ipod of equivalent. It helps with the zoning out.

The dentist who did my last one had to use a child-sized block for my jaw.

Yup, me too. It was way less agonizing than the one before when I had to hold it open myself.

Steph, if you do need a root canal, see if the surgeon will let you use an ipod of equivalent. It helps with the zoning out.

Oh, definitely. I don't think it's even something you need to ask about though, is it? At any rate, I wouldn't have thought to. They never batted an eye at me.