Thank you for the commiserations. Managed to see the dentist this morning. He couldn’t find anything, so it’s off to an endodontist tomorrow. Will be picking up some pain medicine (“Lorcet Plus”) shortly. So if my pain gets as bad as it did at 3:00 this morning, do not expect much blogging.
Do not expect any coherent blogging.
World's Only Rational Man 
That drug is the equivalent of what *someone* took in St Croix, with wine, that one evening where a glass table was mysteriously shattered. Be careful.
Offer it up, as the Catholics say. (Typically, the unsolicited advice of a chirpy non-sufferer.)