a good reason not to go to the con

Okay, first, con-check: had a very pleasant lunch with thalia (and a few minutes of ellen_fremedon, whom I see most days, but still pleasant!), then joined by surprise insptr_penguin! Walked back to the hotel with the latter and ran into dira, strangecobwebs, and iulia, the last of whom I had never met before, and then came on home because I am not a con-goer.

And it's a good thing I came home, she said, referring to the subject line, or I wouldn't have been here when my upstairs neighbor's kitchen sink overflowed and due either to that or to his dishwasher running, water began raining down from my kitchen overhead light.

My dutch oven is already about half full. Maintenance is en route, but frankly I don't know what they'll be able to do - Mr Upstairs has already got towels on the floor soaking everything up, right, so what else is there? If this is going to involve a sawzall (as it did when downstairs needed my elderly bathtub drain replaced the time their bathroom ceiling basically fell in on them), I'm going to be unhappy.

drip drip drip

The water was coming out of the light pretty quick there for a while. Maintenance man came, replaced my six-quart "dutch oven" (it's a saucepan with no handle, and a lid that can go in the oven, so dutch oven it is) with a big green bucket, had me switch off the kitchen-light breaker switch (side note: in my place, the outlet the TV was plugged into? on the "kitchen" breaker, so that video game I was in the middle of, yeah, I'll be replaying the last few levels - good thing it's a game I dig [and I'd done the hard stuff and saved before lunch]), and went upstairs to see what's what. He's been up there for a while now, and in good news, the water has slowed to about 55 drips per minute.

This has been one of the times I'm glad I rent. (But seriously, what is it with me and guys upstairs flooding their kitchens? Right? (with updates here, here, and here.)

[eta before posting: the water has now stopped. Mr Upstairs has just come down to apologize. Came home, stuff in the sink, started to clean up, and then suddenly WHAM!, water everywhere (stopped-up disposal), and The Girl Downstairs banging on the door on top of it all. I feel bad that he feels so bad. But, hey, it's not their floor that's going to get cut up if they have to replace my overhead light. (He agrees with me that the fact everybody's renting is a good thing at this point.) Maintenance man is back and has taken down the overhead light and is busily drying things very carefully and tapping to see where the water had got to and try to work out whether come Monday someone's going to need to cut up my kitchen ceiling.]

doctor who 5x12 "the pandorica opens"

( spoilers are bothered by the fact that their life doesn't make any sense )

( speculation, because I am unpredictable )

And now, back to our show.

more doctor who

( well, all right )

seeking toothy reassurance

Okay, guys, here's what's what. ( Background: )

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This all feels a great deal like I think I remember it feeling to have a loose tooth, but the last time I lost a tooth was more than twenty years ago, so I could well be wrong. I'm not wrong that it's not supposed to feel like this, though, am I? He's supposed to have removed all the root so I'm not supposed to be feeling anything? And yet this is a different kind of pain than I was feeling before the root canal. It really feels like it's in the gums (and the bone?) - but it's hard for me to tell. Still, though. I'm due back at 4:30 Monday afternoon and at this point, with Sunday and most of Monday between now and then, I wish I were going in first thing Monday morning. I wish I could go in tomorrow.

Other relevant facts: my mother had root canal in the same tooth, and like me had small, difficult canals; plus, she had an extra canal they weren't expecting! It's possible, isn't it, that the dentist dug out three canals and there's a whole fourth one in there he just hasn't seen yet because he didn't know to look for it and it's a tricksy little bugger?

So: people who have had woot canaw, please reassure me. It could as I say be that there's still a whole canal in there; it could be that he didn't get all the root out the way he thought he did; it could be that there's (ugh) an infection of some kind?, if (or especially if) the temporary crown doesn't fit quite right? What I'm looking for is someone to give me the informed opinion that it is unlikely I will need to have (a) surgery more serious than root canal or (b) this tooth removed and replaced with an implant or a bridge. I'm just not prepared for that at this point, and I would love it if someone could tell me that in between the separate phases of the root canal work it's normal to have this kind and this level of discomfort.