Pain Management

Tonight hubby and I went to dinner and afterwards we ran some errands. I forgot to take my Tylenol with me and by the second errand I was in pain. By the time we were on the way home I was almost in tears. I have never had pain like this in my mouth. It shoots from my ear to my chin and feels like someone is ripping my teeth out. Tomorrow I have an appointment with my dentist to have an x-ray to see what is up. I want to portray to him that I am not a sissylala and that it is not just sensitive. When I called the receptionist, she said, "oh, it will be sensitive for up to a couple of months." And I said, no it is not sensitive, it is painful!!!!! That made me think of all the painful things that I have experienced in my life and how this rates. I think it is in running for the third most painful thing when the Tylenol wheres off. Here is a list of what I have done to myself:

*Broke my nose
*Fractured my foot
*Fractured my elbow
*Bone spur in my heel and had a cortisone shot in the bottom of my foot!
*Ripped all the muscles in my lower back
*Gave birth twice (but had an epidural). Little man was the worse of the pain....pushing 2 hours.
*Had a concussion where I was in bed for 3 weeks and had another 3 weeks after that of recovery.
*Smashed my finger in the car door twice and lost a thumb nail and a finger nail.
*Lost 2 toe nails, one by smashing my foot into the side of the pool and another by a snowboarder who ran over me while I was skiing.
*Thyroid problem that was labeled an "emergency."
*Swam in the Pacific ocean for one mile while guys swam over me and punched me in the face.

Need I say more. Maybe I should give him this list and tell him that the pain that I experienced tonight was in the top three. There, I feel better that I got to vent and I will be switching dentists soon. Why did my dentist have to retire?