Funny Thing Happened....

" On My Way to the Forum " is the classic line and stage / movie production , probably made most famous by Zero Mostel.

I was on my way to cottage country but....... I felt a dull pain in my upper jaw area. I noticed the same thing over the last 2 weeks but it was diffuse and hard to pinpoint. Last night , it was easy... knew the tooth right away.
I hemmed and hawed and said , ' dang , call the dentist '. Thus , I popped in at noon. Left at 1:30.
Clank ,clank w/the probe. Push , push w/ the fingers. X - ray. Aha, we have a dead or dying nerve.
Root canal , right there. Some discomfort and unease.

Willer the Driller , has been my dentist for 35 + yrs. Between myself and my dental plan , we have insured he would have the  lifestyle that he could wish for , and apparently , will keep on doing so.

Turns out , I was 3 days from intense pain and swelling , no more than a week. The X-Ray showed a black outline around the root ( apparently , black isn't good there either ).
The root canal procedure showed the root was dead not decayed to disease point but no blood , no live root.

Came home sore and swollen. Ibuprofen from the depths of hell and anti-biotics for a week. The hope is the infection will be slowed and stopped , and no other tissue involved. Doc was asking nasty questions , such as ' do your sinuses hurt '.
Sinuses ! -  how far up the head is this thing going - doesn't it stop at China as we used to say.

Well, its six hours later and feel fine. Swelling down and pain barely there. The ibuprofen is therapeutic to short circuit pain and build up of swelling.
That was then.     This morning , all is well. No pain but apparently , I need to heal. Especially, since some bone tissue may have been involved.

In the NEWS : a glut of headlines
1. Tourists rescued from ice floe off Baffin Is. serves them right. I saw ' Apocalypse Now ' and Chef said ' Never get out of the boat '

2. U.S. boss held hostage by his Chinese workers. released when he promised to pay them

3. Paula Deen dropped by Walmart. She used the ' N ' word , nashua , on a broadcast.

4. Samsung has an OLED TV ready for production , the cost , 13 , 000. For that price , this TV better make coffee and deliver popcorn to your seat. Heck , makes going to the movies seem cheap.

5. In San Antonio , they debuted a 2 - headed turtle , named ' Thelma and Louise ' after the Three Muskateers.

6. Land cruises. Overnight on CBC ,the show is called ' This and That '. The interview was w/ a chap named Norvind who represented , Royal Norwegian cruise lines.  The plan was to duplicate the luxury and life on board a liner but on land. This item must be a joke. The landliner was to be 145 m long and rolls across the prairies of Canada and N. U.S. Yep , pools , casinos etc.
I've seen those moving shows where they move a building. they need special permits to use the roads. hydro lines need to be lifted etc.
Aha, prairie schooner takes on a whole new meaning.

Weather: Yepper , its summer in T.O. and A/C doesn't stand for alternating current , either. Weatherboy is holding a brolley and there are clouds w/ an arrow going down.

the universe unfolds