Spent most of the day in excruciating pain. My toothache which started out small and mildly annoying yesterday became so painful I had to go lie down. I thought I was going to die or at the very least pass out. I called the emergency dentist, who it turns out is my dentist now that mine has retired, and he said he reckoned that I didn't have an abcess or anything nasty like that. I just had something jammed in the gum which was causing it to swell up, thereby jamming it in there real good. I did have a pronounced swelling inside my mouth near the gum line, so I figured he was right.

I was really afraid I was going to lose the tooth. I had an abcess in the tooth right next door about 6 years ago and had to have it extracted. So I thought we were going down that road. It was just the swelling putting pressure on the base of my teeth that was causing the pain, and once I'd routed out the area with what they call a T.P., the little brushes my daughter uses for cleaning behind her braces, and swilled it with salt water and Corsodyl(tm) it started to throb really nicely.

Went to bed watching "Batman Begins" for about the fourth time, but Mia hasn't seen it, so I don't mind watching it again. It's shaping up to be my all time favourite Batman movie, even coming close to the top spot, which is of course the Tim Burton movie.

Sank into a restful sleep.