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How Are You Supposed To Handle a Wisdom Tooth Coming In During a Nationwide Quarantine?

We're about a full week into this quarantine and I don't know if I'm going to make it. It has nothing to do with being alone and having nothing to do. It has nothing to do with getting coronavirus. It's because I'm 26 years old and I have a goddam wisdom tooth coming in. How could I possibly still have a wisdom tooth in my body? I'm almost certain I got all four out while in college. My mom claims she has paperwork that shows I got all four out. No, it appears my college dentist conspired against me and left one in there just for fun. What sociopath would do such a thing? He's a goddamn terrorist dentist is what he is. Assuming the quarantine ends one day and I escape this apartment alive I will have no choice but to go on a John Wick manhunt for this witch doctor and make him pay. 

But now what do I do? I can't go to the dentist during a nationwide quarantine right? Fuck that. I've been doing so good with social distancing that I can't ruin it now. Are dentists even open? I guess that's a dumb question since they're in the same ballpark as doctors, but who knows how corona-invested a dentist's office is right now. No thanks. 

So what's my pain level at you ask? Okay you didn't ask, but I'm at about an 8.4/10. The most fun part of my day is when I'm asleep because I can't feel any pain that way. That may have been the saddest sentence I've ever written. Once the pain starts seeping into my dreams then it might be time to hang up my cleats and say good night. At this point I can only eat ice cream and mini muffins which is certainly not a negative, but not great for avoid diabetes in a few years. 

I can barely chew without wanting to saw off my jaw. I'm refusing to smoke any weed during the quarantine because I know I'll start freaking out and thinking the world is going to end. I just don't know what to do. Is it dumb to avoid the dentist? I don't think there's anything that can get me to willingly go to a dentist right now, but the coming days will tell that story. 

I realize we're talking about a tooth here, and my tooth especially. Who cares? No one. We've got people months pregnant out there. I have no idea how you're supposed to handle that right now. I don't even know what to offer as a suggestion to that. 

Back to my problem, the Tom Hanks Castaway move is certainly on the table. That would be a fun live stream wouldn't it? Hubbs yanks out his tooth and passes out on the floor in a pool of blood. Clicks>>>>>>