11.30pm - go to bed. Take night meds, include painkillers for toothache.
12.30am - going insane with toothache. Smear orajel over teeth.
1am - do three Buddhist pain management meditations.
1.30am - smear orajel over teeth and gums.
2am - getting insaner. Pain pain pain!
2.30am - cry.
3am - run a bath, get in the bath, hope the heat will soothe and relax. It doesn't.
3.45am - google 'pain management'.
4am - smear orajel over teeth and gums.
4.15am - cry.
4.30am - get the instruction manual out for the brand new microwave, learn how to use it. Heat up wheat bag.
4.45am - slight relief from the heat of the wheat bag! Yey!
5.30am til 6am - SLEEP!
6am - wake up throbbing, agony, argh. Count down til 7am painkillers.
7am - painkillers. While it's a relief to take them, realise that it'll be another 45 minutes til they have any effect, which they didn't last night.
7.30am - cry. Smear orajel over teeth.
8am til 11am - listen to radio, try not to cry, moan, groan or rock.
11.30am til 1pm - SLEEP!
1pm - bastard evil bastard evil electricity meter reader wakes me up by ringing the bell incessantly.
1pm til now - ouch, yuck, grim, tired, pain, ARGH.
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