codeine is my friend

I've had a toothache since Tuesday. It wasn't too bad then, I just focused on my biology paper and kept going. (Am I brilliant or what?) By Friday it was bad enough that I was practically living on advil and still hurting. I discovered that though you cannot take four advil all at once, you can take two tylinol and two advil all at the same time. (Why I do not know, but for awhile it kinda worked.) Saturday I was over playing games at a friend's house on that lovely, snowy morning and was forced to leave rather suddenly. By the time I got to my house it was awful. I arrived to find we were out of one of my painkillers. (*panic*) So Sharon went shopping while I lay on the couch in AGONY attempting to watch a movie. Upon her return more medicine really didn't help a whole lot - except to make watching the movie much easier. :s Finally I called my retired dentist friend, Bill and he told me what it probably was and to ask for some penicillin. I called a dentist, they gave me an appointment but no help till Monday. Then I called my boss and told her my tale of woe. She wrote me up a prescription for penicillin and for codeine, a wonderfully strong painkiller. I'm not supposed to drive and am very drowsy but now I can't even feel the pain unless I stop and think about it......or chew. So I'm happy about all except that tomorrow I will be paying lots of money to the dentist that left me hanging for the weekend as I do not have insurance.