Thanks maleficent and raeanna,
Yes. The particular excruciating pain that has focused my existence for the past several weeks is gone - gone the way of the tooth, which I have here in a reliquary envelope - since I'm still paying for the root canals and crown that accessorize it.
The minor throbbing from the extraction is a little vienna sausage of pain compared to the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile of torment I've been riding around in all this time...
