[Marcella]

This tooth died inside the tooth plus it's the end tooth of a bridge so it's covered up, can't physically reach the tooth. There is no way to tamp down the pain except for pain pills and for an antibiotic to kill the infection. I knew that but tried a tea bag anyway and it was useless.

I wouldn't be able to get the jaw cold enough to interfere with the pain. If this were a SHTF situation, someone with a problem like this - the tooth being part of a bridge, would be in big trouble. Dentist is going to cut the bridge to separate the tooth from the bridge, but how would someone do that if there was no dentist?

I also discovered last night that the Cipro antibiotic bottle was only six pills and should be 20 - I'm short 14 pills. I just called the pharmacist (Walgreens) and guess what - a machine counts out the pills and the machine fouled up. The mental picture we have of a pharmacist counting out pills is no longer true - a machine does the counting.

My Walgreens is across the street so now some time today I have to go to drive-in window and pick up the rest of the pills. If I lived farther away from the drug store, this would be a problem. Do we need to count pills before we leave a drug store?

Did you know a machine is counting pills now?

[greeneyes]

No, I didn’t know a machine does it. I often just look at the bottle to see if it looks like 30 pills. Sometimes I do count them after I get them home. Usually they are ok.

[handmade]

Did you know a machine is counting pills now?

Yep- it clanks and clunks and counts, bottles, and labels the pills. And yes it is not a bad idea to count your pills.