Playing in the Shambles

Glad that’s over with. The anesthetic is wearing off now, but the hydrocodone the dentist prescribed is keeping the pain down to a low roar. Chomped the old tongue good a time or two while numb and in the chair, so that’s gonna hurt, too. But the tongue heals quickly and the gaping hole in #31 is gone, along with the old filling and the rest of the top of the tooth. In its place is a temporary crown, with the (hopefully) permanent one coming in a couple of weeks.

It was costly, and insurance-free. Hopefully, in a few years it will be easier for more Americans to make rational choices about health care and coverage. There are plenty of reasons to dread a trip to the doctor or dentist; breaking the bank over a single procedure shouldn’t be one of them.

…in this case, almost instantly:

“Bride’s bouquet brings down plane”

I’m a loser.

220 lb today; goody for me. I think the last time I weighed that, erm, “little” was somewhere around 1985.

In other news, deleted 714 comments from this (woeful) blog. They were almost certainly 100% spam, but if by chance an actual comment got deleted, my apologies. I’ve gotta start checking a little more frequently.