Saturday, September 15, 2007

Dekonstrukted: Excruciating

The word itself signifies a great deal of pain. Pain, your body's signal that something is wrong, can sometimes overwhelm you; rendering you to be utterly useless and spontaneously deaf to people who are talking to you. Today I experienced a pain everyone experiences in their life: a massive toothache.

It's like the tooth had a life of its own, with what feels like a vein throbbing along with the entire left side of my head. I tried supressing it with a painkiller but even the pill who advertised itself to be the "angel" of pain seemed like david to this goliath of a toothache. I tried lying on the bed, finding a position where the aching was less felt, but then after a minute it attacks again, more painful than ever.

The irony of the situation is that you have to eat in order to take medication, which, as you may as well have guessed will worsen the pain.

I have to go to the dentist. My teeth have held me hostage.

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