Finally, some answers and better drugs…

The past few days have not been any kind of fun. The toothache rages on, but as of yesterday, it has finally localized and I now have narrowed it down to the exact tooth that is causing me all the problems. Yet another trip to the dentist this morning for him to tell me that because it is the last molar on the upper left side, I need to go to a Endodontisit to either get a root canal or have the tooth pulled out. Considering the cost of root canals when you are without insurnace, I am thinking, I don’t really need this tooth anymore. It has served me well in the past, but I am pretty sure the rest of the teeth in my head can take up the slack.
He was also kind enough to get off of the good drugs and write me a scrip for percocet! Thank God!!!! Darvocet just doesn’t even begin to make the pain go away. So just maybe I might get a good nights sleep tonight. Will have to look for the magic tooth dr tomorrow.
In the mean time, we are waiting for wicked storms to bear down on us this evening. Fox News was kind enough to put on an evil weather service guy to scare the sh** out of us here in the south by saying these aren’t any ordinary kind of severe weather warnings, these are “high risk” warnings. Apparently the warnings we have received for the past 5 years that I have lived in GA have been “moderate” warnings. Could they have classified them this way the whole time, so that I could bypass the many panic attacks over these years and just saved them all up for today?
Coming from a region that does not get a tornodo more than every century or so, these tornado warnings are serious business. I know the southern born folks pay no mind to them, which is beyond infuriating, but us novices get a little flipped out by them. Classify them approriately please, so I can gage my level of freak out!
Seriously, I need to have some grounds for the impending panic attack. Just about a month ago we had a freak January severe storm. I didn’t pay much mind to the TV forecast, because for God’s sake it’s January after all. Just about 10am I got a slight bolt of reality when my weather radio (yes I may actually be the only resident of GA, let alone the south in general, that actually owns a weather radio) broadcast a tornado watch. For the next two hours I checked my favorite weather website www.intellicast.com radar just to keep track of this storm. Turns out I didn’t need to be wasting my time, because I saw it come plain as day out the window that looks out into my yard on the other side of my computer screen.
It had started as a lovely sunny day, then just after 12pm I could see black clouds over the tree line. When I say black, I really do mean black ominus creepy clouds. I called the hubby to warn him and tell him to get home asap, but he was already getting the storm just about 2 miles from the house. I hung up and it was on top of me. The strongest gush of wind I have ever experienced (besides the typhoon in Okinawa in ‘96) and crap pelting the front of my house like crazy. I ran to take cover in the bathroom and waited for my hubby to get home. The storm passed in about 2 minutes and took down two 70′ trees that missed my house by about 8′, loads of tree limbs and sent the trampoline up over the bushes and well into the neighbors yards. Most of the trees in the woods around the house were missing the top quarter of their trunks. Maybe a tornado or straight line winds, but definitely something I don’t need to experience again…ever!
Wish me luck to get through this evening. The tornado watch goes until 9pm! Yeah! Maybe I should take my drugs and just go to sleep.