I haven’t been blogging a lot lately for a lot of reasons (a combination of extreme busyness with billable activities, and slight burnout on things to say), but here’s today’s.

I’m still recovering feeling in my chin and nose from a major dose of lidocaine, and various items being inserted into and removed from my jaw. My gums are tender, full of sutures, and I suspect that I’ll be more swollen and painful tomorrow. I have reasonably good medication to deal with it (fortunately, my oral surgeon wasn’t put off by threats from drug warriors at the DEA into undermedicating me for pain).

End result, hopefully, in a few months–infection-free gums and teeth, and good replacements.

I saw the movie “Kate and Leopold” the other night. It’s entertaining, but I can’t imagine making a conscious and deliberate choice to go and live in a world of over a century ago, in which modern dentistry was unavailable…