What's Half an Inch Long and Stuck in My Root Canal?

Gosh, it's been an interesting two weeks.

In terms of good news, I got a chapter of Hourglass posted, cementing myself into a monthly update schedule! I don't think I've ever been this proud to be this pathetic. Hopefully when the story picks up, so will my schedule. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.

Also, Global Game Jame happened near me and I ended up pitching a video game that I helped make with some lovely lovely people who knew how to actually do shit. It's currently a little bit broken, by which I mean that the entire mechanic for getting the story is currently not working. Oops. However if you wanna check out the currently working main menu screen and logo I made and the great original soundtrack by a wizard named James, go see Send Only Memories! I promise I'll update this when we get the game working completely.

So that was all super exciting and nice and fun except for the excruciating tooth pain. Did I forget to mention that? I can tell you I didn't forget it at the time.

As context for my later statement, I am not a wimp when it comes to oral pain. When I was younger I used to use my metal bedpost to remove teeth when they got loose because I was impatient. My braces lacerated my upper gum and it took me three days to notice. I can handle most run-of-the-mill mouth pain.

This was so bad I was seriously considering tearing my own teeth out until it stopped. It hurt into the back of my skull and up around my head like there was a molten wire shoved under my skin. When I made my way to my dentist, he discovered that one of my front teeth was necrotic, and I had to have a root canal to get the dead nerve excised before it actually rotted in my mouth. Honestly if I wasn't in so much pain I'd have been horrified, but as it stood I was just glad that something could make the pain go away.

And then the drill broke off in my tooth in the middle of the root canal. The good news was the nerve was already out. The bad news was there was a half-inch of dental drill chilling in my root canal. It was lodged up in there pretty good too, so good I had to go to another dentist who had a special tool for removing broken-off drill bits from people's faces. I didn't know that was a career path before, but by god I'm glad it is. Otherwise I'd have had to get used to having a metal core tooth, which sounds cool until you try to eat something when there's a goddamn drill in your mouth.

On the bright side, I got to keep it as a souvenir when they got it out, so there's that. Yes I do have pictures. It's hosted on imgur so you'll need to copy the link and paste it in your browser manually if you actually want to see this.

https://i.imgur.com/Cka7cB6.jpg

Fun, right?

Anyways, see you guys in another month. Hourglass is starting to pick up steam and my classes have plateaued in workload so maybe I can work my way up to a whole two updates a month! Gosh I am living on the edge here.