Four hours

20 minutes: a dull throbbing 

30 minutes: a slight yet sharp pain

45 minutes: a strong mean pain

1 hour: a hateful and intense swelling hurt

1 hour & 30 minutes: the tears roll down my cheeks as free as a bird and my mouth is a throbbing, sick animal

2 hours: my whimpering and crying and praying do nothing to stop the pain in my jaw 

2 hours & 45 minutes: I am crying and screaming (in my head) and begging for either relief or death to come and save me. I am standing and holding myself up with the wall and crying, hard. No one can help and nothing is happening. On a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst pain you have ever felt in your whole fucking life, how bad does it hurt? 10. I assume this is as close to the feeling of childbirth or breaking my shin as I will ever get at the point in my life. 

3 hours: I have come to the conclusion that I will soon die. My level of pain seems to be incompatible with life. Now, only to lay on the floor and await my fate. 

3 hours & 30 minutes: I have just stopped crying and whimpering long enough to eat a small bowl of food so I will be able to take my god-sent medication. It takes around 25-30 minutes to work. The pain in my face has subsided on its own. Now it is only a dull, throbbing pain. Looks like its leaving the same way it came in. Don't let the door hit you on the way out you son of a bitch!

4 hours: I found myself laying in bed, thankful that relief, and not Gentleman Death, is on it's way.  My face is puffy and red from two and a half hours of crying. I neck is stiff and painful from being moved and twisted in odd ways to somehow help the now non-deadly pain in my mouth.  My eyes are bloodshot and raw, and my mind is a mess. It is now 4:40 in the morning and I must wake up at 8:40 to take my medication so I don't have to repeat this little break down again. I must sleep, my botched root canal can't wait much longer. God damn me for trying to die on the week end! Damn dentist for fucking it up in the first place. 

Dear blog, 

You kept me from ripping my face off for the last half hour. Thank you. Goodnight.