The Problem with Pain

It is midnight.  I just got home from teaching a class.  (The class went well by the way, but that is not the focus of this particular blog).  Okay, I am having problems with my teeth.  I got a large amount of work done before Christmas and nothing has been the same since then.  The original issue with this one particular tooth wasn't really addressed and so here I am writing to you in excruciating, and I mean excruciating pain.  

Pain is a problem, you know?  When your jaw is hurting so bad that you can barely focus on what you are thinking, it is too much.  Pain tonight - a 20 on a scale of 1 to 10.  I have to go get this things fixed.  The advil isn't working too much anymore and I am not going to be able to tough it out.   More in the morning!  Man, I hope I can sleep!