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I'm trying to gather enthusiasm for going out into the cold, cold morning. This is my last of the big sequence of dental appointments. I think the enthusiasm will magically appear tomorrow when I can look out from my bed and say "I'll get up in a little."

The actual treatment today isn't as much as previous appointments (a crown and two big fillings) but it's cold and it's been a big few months and I want to renew my hot water bottle and spend quality time hugging it. Also, it's Friday.

I'm not unhappy. Just cold. Very cold.

The big things is that after this my mouth will cease to be a danger to me and in a few weeks I shall be able to eat as others eat. I'm already carrying around so much less pain and discomfort. So its good. Or it will be, when I brave the outdoors and stop complaining.

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The dental work is done (one filling less than I thought!) and so are some messages, thanks to the kindness of Rachel. I shall be making duck-based soup over the weekend, possibly with onions and garlic and lentils and quinoa. I shall be eating emu mettwurst. I shall be eating buffalo sausage. I shall also have a warm bedroom as I gave in and bought a larger heater. I have now mislaid my double adaptor, so until I find it again I can have heat or my bedroom light, but not both. Given the double adaptor is 30 years old, I may just put it on my shopping list and get a new one when I next do messages.

And that's my day. It's the end of a week that should make significant difference s to my health over the next while. Rachel and I celebrated with hot chocolate. I also gave Seung (my dentist) a hamper. The practice lost most of their staff to the backroom as they discovered how much nicer fresh macadamia nuts are than the we-shelled-this-for-you ones and the joys of shelling them. it was a very good kind of celebration, since everyone in the dental practice is a s foodie as I am and I included some of the things we've talked about over the three months this treatment has been going on.

And so that's it. All I need are checkups for the eye and the heart and the teeth. I'm am - as far as we know - entirely out of the danger zone. I'm on the way to good health again. It's a big moment.