Sick-ish

I stayed home sick from work today. (Yea!!) I had a dentist appointment this morning and she was just supposed to replace a filling that had come out, but ended up giving me a root canal instead. She told me that she might have to do that, so it wasn't a total shock or anything, but I was still dreading the drilling down to the root of my tooth. (It's even worse since we just studied the tooth in A&P. A little bit of knowledge isn't always a good thing.) Turns out that the worst part of the whole procedure was the shot of novacaine at the beginning. I actually never felt her digging or drilling or scraping at all. She showed me the dead nerve she took out and it looked just like the eye ickies I pick out of Shannon's eyes all the time. So I really didn't need to call off work, but I really thought it best if I gave myself some time to recuperate. After recuperating for 10 minutes, I tidied up the house, cut the grass, and am now doing laundry. I'm going to head out to the drug store to pick up my prescription for Vicodin the dentist wrote out for me. That pain may creep up at any time.