Tooth Fairy Where Are You?

I need the tooth fairy!

Not for a lost tooth but for this stinkin tooth ache I've been suffering with for the past week. Yes, seven days today! I finally got into the dentist after the holiday weekend. He's really not certain he even found out what was wrong for sure. About four teeth hurt when he tapped on them but the one I had a root canal through the crown last year seemed to be the culprit. The xray showed it to be fine. The back molar had a bit of the filling chipped away so he thinks that is it.

After the most painful shot ever, he began to drill all the old filling out to make sure it wasn't fractured. Ouch! Not quite dead enough. They left me there to let the deading juice do a little more work. Tears began to shoot down my face. Stupid tears. I think the excessive loratab and lack of sleep had caught up with me and mix that with pain...hince emotions were getting out of control.

The doc finally came back in, after his assistant checked on me a few times, asking if I was alright, and tried something different. He called it a tranquilizer for my tooth. He was probably thinking he needed to give me one as well. Packed in that tooth good and now we wait.

Then I got a little talk about my stress level. Seems I'm grinding my teeth at night and may be getting TMJ on this side now. I've endured it already on the other side some twenty years ago. Stress? Hmmm. If he'd only seen my summer. Besides summer the last week of pain has been stressful enough. I have never had a toothache like this one before. And it came on without any warning. Usually by the time a tooth is hurting half this bad, I've ignored all the warning signs for a year or two. This is stay awake at night, move to the couch and cry, try every home remedy on the internet pain.

Forget the tooth fairy...I need Jesus!

Somebody pray...