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Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
-- Emily Dickinson
I broke a tooth last Friday.
I was just chewing some breakfast cereal and there was a not-quite-right sounding crunch and a bit in my mouth rather harder than the cereal.
So tomorrow I'm getting a root canal and a temporary crown, and later I'll get the permanent crown put in. I'm trying this new (to me, at least) sedation dentistry -- I get put mostly out for the duration of the procedure (semiconciousness with some hypnagogic time-loss), as well as getting something to sedate me tonight in preparation. Kinda looking forward to that.
The tooth doesn't hurt much, but it doesn't help the generalized pain, either.
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
-- Emily Dickinson
I broke a tooth last Friday.
I was just chewing some breakfast cereal and there was a not-quite-right sounding crunch and a bit in my mouth rather harder than the cereal.
So tomorrow I'm getting a root canal and a temporary crown, and later I'll get the permanent crown put in. I'm trying this new (to me, at least) sedation dentistry -- I get put mostly out for the duration of the procedure (semiconciousness with some hypnagogic time-loss), as well as getting something to sedate me tonight in preparation. Kinda looking forward to that.
The tooth doesn't hurt much, but it doesn't help the generalized pain, either.