So…ever-escalating agony throughout yesterday.  Specialist seen in the afternoon.  Root canal scheduled for tomorrow, after powerful antibiotics are taken every six hours without fail.  Given how the midnight antibiotics sat in my stomach, I got three or four hours’ sleep this A.M. 

There seems to be less pain this morning, possibly due to exhaustion.  It’s increasingly obvious that I’m the subject of a “test to destruction” experiment designed by You-Know-Who.

I guess an alternative theory is that sleep deprivation causes paranoia, but that’s crazy.  No, the first idea is more in line with Occam’s Pliers: