Ooooff, what a month it's been. I was looking forward to a good ten days off during the Xmas-New Years bit but halfway through it Body thought it should get even for all the stress Brain had been placing on it all fall and I fell ill from a terrible cold that's going around. That was over two weeks ago and I'm still an exhausted, brain-dead snot ( Read more... )

Far too long since my last post, but it was a busy month or six weeks in there. I eked out some of my vacation and took most Fridays off, I suppose I could get used to a four-day week but certainly not as much gets done ( Read more... )

TMD = Temporary Mandibular Dislocation ( Read more... )

Ten years ago tonight I was run over by a car in a crosswalk near my home, as I was on my way home from work. My left leg was mangled below the knee and it took a long time to get well. I think all my kollim ridders know the story but if you don't, go here (http://www. ( Read more... )

One New Year's resolution that I'm actually making an effort to honour these days is getting more exercise, in order to help get my weight down. My leg won't allow me to run, swimming is too involved logistically, and who wants to cycle in traffic like this... so I walk, every morning so far, for a couple of miles along the bus route to work then ( Read more... )

I grind my teeth. A lot. I have a night guard, but I usually don't wear it. Monday night I was eating supper (chicken burger) when I got a pain in my lower left molar - most of it had cracked off and, I'm afraid, been swallowed ( Read more... )

I am now eating, and possibly may finish, a large piece of BBQ pork pie. No, it's not a large BBQ pork bun such as is available in Chinatown and groceries north - no! it is a large amount of leftover BBQ pork chunks gathered and baked in a large pastry pie shell, just as if the pork had been apples or lemon meringue ( Read more... )

The remaining swelling did not faze the Doc (or should I call him the Dent?) and we boogied at 8 am sharp. After 45 minutes he had drilled open the leaky filling on my 2-5 (left forward upper bicuspid), pulled out the old gutta-percha (whatever that is), drilled out the canal to a nice roundy circle instead of a flattish bacteria-admitting oblong, ( Read more... )

Well, I went to the office of my reg'lar dentist on Friday and showed him my bespectacled-pumpkin-that-suffered-a-stroke impression, and he agreed that the penicillin the endodontist gave me was as useless as orange Life Savers. He gave me nine days' supply of Cloxacillin, and I have been taking it for about 40 hours now. It seems to be making a ( Read more... )

My pain is a little less today, but I still had a bad night. I am staying home from work today because my left cheek swelled up to twice the size of the right, and I look like a Poster Child for Something. ( Evidence behind the cut. )