Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymenoceros

This is hilarious!

Enjoy!!

My tooth is finally getting better!

May you never have to have a root canal. Or, if you must (because really they're not that bad), then may you have no complications. Or extra pain. A few months ago I tried to avoid having a root canal--they're rather expensive--but alas, the problematic tooth never calmed down. So a few weeks ago I went in for my routine cleaning and told my dentist I thought I should probably go ahead and have it done after all. *sigh* The following week I had the root canal. I'd had one before and had had no problems, and I was expecting much the same from this one. Of course, it seemed like Murphy's Law was in full effect this time! Apparently generally speaking people have 3 roots in their molars. So my dentist was rather surprised to find a fourth canal in my tooth. Which means the root canal was going to take a little longer. I was sitting there in the chair listening to him work, with the mp3 player playing softly in my ear (I like to be able to hear what's going on...I ain't skeerd) and several times I heard him ask his assistant to suction up the water. Water? Huh. Interesting...he must've been rinsing or something. Right. He couldn't finish the root canal process (the filling the empty canals and all that), partly because of that fourth canal, and partly because the one sick root that had been causing me the discomfort was quite the bleeder. He told me (afterward) that as soon as he touched it, it had started "gushing" and wouldn't stop. So of course he couldn't finish. He gave me a prescription for an antibiotic and instructions to take lots of ibuprofen, and scheduled me for Part Two the following week. The girls at the front asked if I wanted a prescription for something stronger for the pain, and I told them no. "Stronger is for wusses," I said. Three days later I was calling the office again--my tooth was still quite painful. After talking to my dentist on the phone for about 10 minutes, answering his questions as truthfully as I could, and probing my gum above the tooth (and finding it painful!) I was relieved that he was going to give me something for the inflammation. Except that what he gave me was prednisone, a steroid--steroids cause water retention and weight gain. Yippee. BUT it did help clear up the inflammation in the tooth (and the pain thereof). The following week I went in for Part Two. Things went much much better, according to my dentist. The root had stopped bleeding, and he was able to fill it and everything. But then toward the end, I started feeling really...uncomfortable. Everytime he pressed on that tooth, it HURT. Even when the assistant was cleaning it to remove the excess adhesive, that hurt like you wouldn't believe. He couldn't think why it would be hurting like that, but he told me to go ahead and take ibuprofen and if it wasn't significantly better the next day to give him a call. Fortunately, it was. Even today, it's so much better than it was last week...but there's still some mild discomfort. But since it seems to be sssslllloooooowwwwllllyyyy getting better, I'll just keep an eye on it.