Okay so.. I have this tooth. I mean, I have several but this one particular tooth is causing me grief. It's been wonky acting off and on for a while, but as of two days ago, it's officially a problem child.
I finally gave in to common sense and called the dentist yesterday afternoon, figuring I could get in this morning, but apparently my dentist doesn't work on Fridays. I have an appointment for Monday morning, if I don't end up in jail after a tooth pain induced rage causes me to go Kujo on some poor, unsuspecting bystander.
Yesterday afternoon, I shared my situation with Louise.
Me: "I ought to just run to Scary Hillbilly Town and go to the liquor store. A big bottle of Jack might not make it stop hurting, but by Saturday night, I won't care."
Louise: "Wull, I got a bottle of whiskey out in the car."
*blink*
Me: "What are you doing with a bottle of whiskey??"
Louise: "I've been riding around with it for over a year."
Me: "Where did you get booze?"
Louise: "Oh.. Bernice gave it to me."
Me: "The preacher's wife?? What was she doing with it?"
Louise: "Oh, we wuz gonna make them bourbon balls that Rosey brings every Christmas, but then we never did. You want it?"
Me: "I'll buy it from you."
Louise: "Oh no.. you kin have it."
When five o'clock finally rolled around, I followed Louise out to her car where we did the big, shady booze exchange, which turned out to be one of those little, tiny airplane sized bottles.
Louise: "I wish I'da known you liked that stuff. When Manny got to goin' to church, we poured a whole half gallon of Puerto Rican rum down the sink."
I nearly cried.
Anywho, I left there and stopped at the dollar store. We needed dog food and I wanted to stock up on ibuprophen for the weekend ahead. I ended up spending money I shouldn't have, but I found two tops and a pair of flip flops on the clearance rack for a whopping total of $9.
I'm hoping that the receptionist at the dentist's office is right and that all I have to look forward to is some x-rays and ten days worth of anitibiotics, come Monday morning. Then I can go back and get whatever needs to be fixed, fixed. When i told her the pain was radiating down through my jawbone, she was pretty confident there was a raging infection.
I finally get Mr. G. Bladder under control, then Mr. Back Molar has to go all monkey noodles. If it ain't one thing, it's ten.
Next week was going to be the first full, five day week I was going to get to work in over a month and now I have to take at least a half day off. But it's okay... everything happens for a reason.
Anywho, I've got about $30K in new orders to enter for Bossman, in addition to the $82K I had yesterday. Things are looking up a little for the Asylum. Maybe there's hope.
Ya'll have a great Friday. I'll be over here in my cubicle, sneaking sips of whiskey from the tiny bottle in my purse, swishing it around in my mouth and praying to gawd that no one gets close enough to catch a whiff.
Later Taters!
10 comments:
Well, I'm glad to hear you have more than one tooth! Have a good weekend now, and don't be drinking up all that booze at once!
Man, that ain't enough booze to indrunkefy a fly. Just cover up the scent with a lil' Scope and you should be good to go.
Hope you're better before Monday, or at least not in pain.
Ugh. The same thing happened to me a few months ago. Searing, cry-your-eyes-out tooth ache. It was a freakin' sinus infection. Who knew you had sinuses near your mouth? Apparently we do, and if they get infected, they squeeze the nerves around your teeth.
Good luck getting rid of that pain.
"....indrunkefy....." LOL
You can have my booze. We seldom touch anything but wine and beer.
I have a tooth going bad too, and 2 refrigerators that have bitten the dust in the last 2 weeks. I bought a new one today and paying for it will mean that none of my teeth can get any worse for at least 2 years. Woe is me.
That much booze won't even make the world look prettier.
Get better! Have a great weekend, too.
A fellow blogger went to the dentist last year and ended up with $2600 work to be done.
Now that's an ouch!
Good luck at the dentist. I had a cavity filled just yesterday. Today felt much better.
Mahala
There ain't a worse pain in the world. Hope you found a bigger bottle for the weekend :)
I'd have to be in a lot of pain to use whiskey to reduce it.
But uh .. does it work?
Actually, you should just rub the whiskey on the affected site to disinfect and numb it. I had an infection a couple of months ago and I used a dry tea bag against the affected area, as well as a piece of paper towel and a paste of salt and water... talk about burning the crap out of my mouth, but hell, it worked. The infection came to a head, I popped it, and it greatly relieved the pain, but still used antibiotics.
However, I also used whiskey, as much for pain relief/disinfection as I did for its other natural side effects. I figured if I were drunk enough I wouldn't care.
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