5 Lost Hours

I just got home from 5 hours in the dentists chair having a root canal, a tooth pulled and fitted for a permanent bridge. I'm not in pain yet, and I probably won't be though I may ache for a while, my dentist is very very good.

Instructions: Don't...don't smoke, don't chew anything sticky, don't drink except with a straw, don't take asprin or anything else that thins blood, don't ... Oh well, the alternative to all this work would be something else. Five hours in a chair, and an afternoon of being uncomfortable perhaps or recurrent toothache and the possibility of severe abcess... good trade off if you ask me. But, 5 hours? Lost forever; down the drain, spilt milk, water under the bridge and all that.

On the other hand, I asked the boss (me) if I could take the day off and he (me again) said "Of course!" So I am.

Cheers.