It’s after 2:00 AM on Saturday morning, and I’m at the computer because I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep. My usual night is to be awake and writing (on this blog or my book) for two or so hours, after which I’ll go back to bed and fall right to sleep. It’s…

Monday came and my tooth hadn’t stopped hurting, so I made the dreaded call and arranged for another extraction. The first appointment they could give me with Dr. Stewart was on Monday the 20th, a day and time that would be very hard to deal with in that it would conflict with Joely’s riding lesson…

O.K., I admit it, I was pretty depressed last week. Well, maybe not depressed exactly, but certainly unhappy. I didn’t want to consider what might be coming next, and thought that maybe if I avoided thinking about it, it wouldn’t happen. But avoidance, as I’ve discovered before, doesn’t usually work, and it didn’t work in…

It’s been seven days since I had my tooth pulled. And what are the results? Sadly, there have been no changes except that the hole in my mouth is healing–though that is just making a new cavitation that I will have to have cleaned out at a later date too. Other than that, nothing has…

Monday, November 29th, was a day I was both waiting for and dreading. I want this painful tooth pulled out, but that meant I would have to have this painful tooth pulled out! The process of having a tooth removed was not one I was looking forward to, and there would be no conscious sedation…

As we went about our Thanksgiving Day I began considering the observance of the holiday we celebrate here in America. For me personally, I could make a list containing the freedoms I most cherish: Freedom of religion tops my page, and I hope never to take it for granted. I have the freedom to attend…

My trip to the endodontist was early (9:30 AM) and unexpectedly fast (in and out in under 30 minutes) on Tuesday (the 23rd). I’d barely made it into the difficult to get to office (built into the side of a hill, with a long and winding walkway for someone using a walker, and up two…

OK, my weekend was interesting, at least. After making that appointment on Friday morning (the 19th) for Monday (the 22nd), I thought I merely had to wait out the weekend until the next adventure began. Wrong!  Because while I was waiting the pain index went from pretty average (down) to up (pretty high) like the…

‘Now what?’ is the newest question to face in this rather simple quest to be pain free. Taking Dr. Mark’s and Dr. Lane’s combined advice (to find an oral surgeon closer to home to do any extractions I might need), I called the only oral surgeons in Pittsfield, MA (twenty minutes away) that came up…

Is no news always good news? I’ve been pondering that question the last couple of days as I awaited Dr. Lane’s response to Dr. Mark’s X-rays. The answer, when it came was still curiously inconclusive (tooth 5 looked like it had a problem on one X-ray, but on another it did not!), though we do…