went to the dentist a little over a week ago… for a filling… can’t remember the last time I’ve had a filling, sigh…

it went very well and I was rather proud of my calm throughout the whole procedure…

she froze the top right side of my mouth where she was working… seemed to recover fine…

a day or so later, my lips felt very dry and I was wondering if I wasn’t drinking enough water… after a few days I was even using some balm to try to make my lips feel better…

a day or so after that I got a big pimple under my nose… it really hurt… then three or four more erupted along the right topside of my lip all the way to the crease of my lips…

I was wondering if I’d eaten too many leftover Halloween chocolates, but didn’t think I had…

yesterday it occurred to me that this all might be a reaction to the freezing…

I have reached the point that I don’t use any drugs because my body reacts so poorly… when I had my hernia/hysterectomy I stopped taking the drugs within a very short period as they were making me feel terrible… dealing with pain was better than being so sick… I know the pain will eventually go away…

today there is still one very angry looking spot, but I think the others are starting to subside…

today’s hibiscus bloom…