many steps back

[fox]

Had my teeth yanked around yesterday, and last night for the first time in many months I was awakened from a pretty deep sleep by excruciating pain in the lower right side of my jaw (where all the Trouble started). Of course the tooth with the root canal couldn't hurt, but everything around it could, and since the project has basically been to tug at the ligaments until they give up and align a different way, I'm a little surprised this hasn't happened until now. Fortunately I remembered what it was like, before, when I was waking up with that kind of pain every night; I went and grabbed a handful of ibuprofen (and brought the bottle in to leave on my nightstand against the same issue tonight), and then lay carefully still until it kicked in and I could sleep again. This morning it feels definitely bruised, hard to say if it's swollen, and I was so bewildered at breakfast time that I had to remind myself not to pour the coffee into the toaster.



I don't have anything intelligent to say about London's burning. It breaks my heart, and when I see headlines or hear sound bites from David Cameron it makes me furious - as if wagging one's finger and saying "You lot stop being oppressed right this minute" could possibly help.