Currently Watching Psych - The Complete Second Season By James Roday, Dule Hill, Timothy Omundson, Corbin Bernsen, Maggie Lawson see related

That's right ladies and gentlemen, I do not have perfect teeth.  To think that I got through my childhood with no teeth problems is simply unbelievable.  However, my good teeth run is finally, finally over.  Now, of course, I had to deal with the dreaded impacted wisdom teeth a few years ago.  And I have had to deal with the fun of the occasional filling in the last two years.  However, nothing could have prepared me for this last week.

I had been having headaches and my mom's sound advice was that I should go visit Mr. Dentist.  I kept shrugging off this advice, thinking, "It'll get better."  Well it didn't and I finally realized that if I didn't do something I would have to go through ward care week and finals with terrible pain.  So, I set up an appointment and went to see the dentist on Sunday 8/10.  (yes, my dentist is open on Sunday, and yes I did go to church that morning.)  Well, it turned out that my upper right molars were the problem.  One had a filling that had cracked, and it needed to be crowned, the other just needed a filling.  So, I survived most of last week until Friday night at about 6:30.  I had eaten some ice cream and just afterwards I got this explosive pain in my bottom right jaw.  It felt like a firework was going off.  So, I called the dentist and they could get me in.  Back I went and this time I learned that the three back teeth (two molars and a premolar) had cavities.  I spent Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday morning filled with high powered pain meds.  I went and got the teeth filled on Sunday.  So, after this coming Sunday I'll have been to the dentist four times.  Not fun at all.

Finals have been incredibly hard.  I just keep reminding myself that I've only got forty more weeks of class after this week and then my ten weeks of externship, and then I'm done!