My dentist does not keep Saturday hours but I called his emergency number. He wasn't even in town, but called me in antibiotics and pain pills. The pain is finally under control, but I am so sleepy. TT and I just took a 2 hour nap on the sofa. Not exactly helping with my studying, but I'm hoping that the much needed rest is almost as valuable as studying. I haven't slept in weeks. When I get stressed I have crazy hallucinogenic dreams. At least 3-4 times a night I wake up sitting straight up in bed thinking that I am fighting something off.
Hopefully by tomorrow the antibiotics will have kicked in and I can lay off the pain pills. (I did not inform my dentist that I had already started antibiotics from an old prescription that I had never finished. Fortunately he prescribed exactly the same thing. Yeah, I know that's bad and that you are supposed to take the whole thing--but I have a terrible time remembering to take pills.)
Meanwhile, I have decided that this whole episode is psychosomatic. It seems every time I get really stressed I get some kind of an ailment. Like my last round of finals where I had three back to back and developed the worst migraine of my life. I really hope that I am right about the psychosomatic thing, because if not I am pretty sure I am going to need a root canal. The pain is stemming from a tooth that was recently filled for the second time and is waiting for a crown once I am done with orthodontics.
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