2004-04-14 - 10:24 a.m.
A day that managed moments of niceness interspersed with moment of decided not-niceness.
On the nice side, it finally smells like spring, and it was warm out, and I spent much of the day on my own out doing nothing in particular. Spending that much time aimlessly by myself is not always a good thing for me - I tend to end up brooding - but today it went well and I quite enjoyed myself.
On the not nice side, my jaw is causing me pain again. I don't think I've talked much about this here, as it is a subject boring even to me, but I have been having pain in my jaw ranging in level from from mild aches and twinges to blinding, can't-see-straight, kill me now because someone invisible is clearly trying to drive industrial bolts into my head while my teeth crawl out of my skull. I've been having this pain since some dental work in November, and no one seems to be able to offer me much the the way of a solution.
They've made me a bite-guard, I've been told by one health professional to apply heat and take acetaminophen and by another to apply cold and take ibuprofen, I've been for massage therapy, acupuncture, am taking magnesium supplements and doing physio stretches, and nothing has particularly worked. It will seem like there's some improvement, and then it will start hurting again, or hurting in a different way, and I'm beginning to be A) very very tired of being in pain and B) deeply discouraged by the apparent lack of solutions or even clear explanations. Sigh. And it may be due to this stress that my IBS is flaring up again, or it may be a unrelated ickiness, but either way I'm not enjoying it.
Oh well. At least we have cherry pie, which I think I will now go have a piece of.
Mmmm. Pie.
