Dental Insult

Just spent a mauvais hour and a half having root canal work, after which the dentist said she found three roots but there may be a fourth! This is the second session dealing with the same tooth - the first being last week. Feeling very unwell and exhausted so have decided to take the afternoon off. I am owed a lot of annual leave which I never seem to get the chance to take, so am glad to have an afternoon, albeit convalescent, to myself. This tooth has now cost me £315 - £90 for a white filling and £225 for a root filling.

Wine, Ping Pong, Trauma and Dental Trauma

Dorothy and Julian came around with a Burberry scarf and a special bottle of wine for me. We drank another bottle of wine before going off to have dim sum at Ping Pong behind the Festival Hall.

Today I had to go to the dentist as the pain had become unbearable. On the way I had an enormous fall, tripping over a manhole cover. I was temporarily winded and my neighbour, who had seen the accident, rushed over the road to help me up. So embarrassing. I shall have to stop wearing my really comfortable but extremely pointy toed shoes as this is the second time this has happened in a week. I shall have permanently grazed knees. Eventually made it to the dentist who prepared to do a root canal filling but was hardly able to anaesthetise me sufficiently and when she reached the canals, the tooth was hyperaemic, which apparently means I had been in such pain for so long that all the blood rushes to the tooth making it incredibly oversensitive and hard to work on. She filled the canals with something called Ledermix which will apparently kill the nerves over the next week or so, and then put in a temporary filling. She is going to finish the work next week. Such fun. Not.

No Show, Even More Shopping and Toothache

I had the night wrong for Johnny's show. It was tonight, so missed it. He says he will send me a DVD. But I am very disappointed to miss it.

Went shopping in Oxford Street and bought a pair of rather glamorous Italian flat gold shoes, a black and white dress, a brown blouse, a black sleeveless T shirt, a white sleeveless T shirt, a pink sleeveless T shirt, a lime green pair of cropped trousers which goes very well with one of my new jackets, and some brightly coloured underwear. Collected my two new jackets from the dressmakers.

My tooth has been aching badly for the last few days. I spent £90 on a white filling for this tooth a couple of months ago, and now it needs a root filling which will be £250. I have arranged to have this done on Monday. I shall be broke for months now. Had appalling abdominal pains on and off all day. Must be something I ate, though can't think of anything.