I bit down on a chicken bone while eating chicken stew Saturday afternoon. By Saturday evening I was in horrible pain. When I woke up Sunday morning my face was swollen and the pain (in spite of aspirin and ibuprofen) was still horrific. I cut my trip short., raced home and saturated the aching tooth with oil of clove for nearly an hour. The pain is gone, buy my face is still swollen. So much so that it discolored one eye and looks like I was in a fight.
All of this because I didn't take care of that tooth when the warning signs began to present themselves. I am going to have that tooth pulled today at noon; but I will have to deal with the swelling and the black eye for a bit - now it would have been worth it for me to hove gone to the dentist last month when my filling first fell out. Some things are just not worth trying to save money on. That's my lesson learned.
Andrea
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