Today was the second day of school and thus my first time seeing my Tuesday/Thursday classes. The day didn’t last long due to a terrible toothache I encountered in the middle of the day. The throbbing pain began to slowly develop after I ate lunch with a classmate and professor. Soon thereafter it became an unbearable force on my entire skull that would come in waves of 5 minutes at a time. I have 3 classes on Thursdays, but I only managed to survive 2 of them today. Before I left the campus I made sure to tell my last professor my situation. She totally understood and said it would be fine to leave before her class. She’s too awesome.
My drive home was terrible. The blaring heat caused me to break out in sweats and my pulsing tooth continued to cause me much grief. I felt as if I was going completely mad. My head swerved and my eyes nearly rolled into the back of my head as I drove through I-95. There were blessed moments of complete numbness, but they were short lived. I whimpered into my home and took 800mg of ibuprofen. I laid on the bed and waited for another moment of numbness to finally get myself into a blissful sleep. Somehow it worked. I woke up pain-free and found that dinner was already prepared. I haven’t felt the pain come back since I awoke from my nap.
Tomorrow morning I have an appointment with my dentist in which I hope to receive a pulpotomy. It will be much cheaper than a root canal. I’ll wait ‘till I get back to Colombia for that procedure. I ain’t exactly made of money. Between braces and car accidents and martial arts injuries and MRIs, I’m starting to get a serious dent in my wallet. After all this, I’m going to consider living in a bubble.
