Since leaving Twin Lakes 4 days ago I have been suffering from extreme pain in my lower left molars and jaw.\u00a0 The pain got worse every day and I assumed I was grinding\/clenching my teeth.\u00a0 In addition, my lower lip and chin were tingling and starting to go numb.\u00a0 It would get very bad when I laid down, so I had a lot of trouble sleeping – even after taking 8 Ibuprofens at once. Last night was a long and miserable night so I finally decided to call Dr Wu, the greatest dentist on Earth. We spent a couple of hours texting back and forth and calling the local pharmacies. He diagnosed that it was almost certainly a root canal infection, and was able to call in some antibiotics and pain medication for me. This is on a Saturday morning on his own time. I am so grateful for his care and generosity – he is truly inspiring and I hope I can somehow repay his kindness some day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pharmacy was over a mile away so I emptied my pack and headed off. When I got to the Walmart there was a panhandler with a sign saying something about cancer so I gave him some change and went inside. I bought some supplies and the medications and went outside to pack it into my backpack for the trip back to the room. There was a man sitting on the only bench so I asked if I could sit there too and he said sure and moved over. We got to talking and he eventually asked if I wanted a ride back to my room. I said sure! He and his wife then drove me all the way back. People are so nice given half a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is quite a forest fire going on south of town. It burned the entire time I was in Salida and kept getting bigger. Apparently it started in a beetle kill area and the forest service decided to let it burn. But then the wind picked up and it got a bit out of control. I hope it doesn’t cause any trail closures. I think I’m west of it so I should be Ok. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since leaving Twin Lakes 4 days ago I have been suffering from extreme pain in my lower left molars and jaw.\u00a0 The pain got worse every day and I assumed I was grinding\/clenching my teeth.\u00a0…Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twin-lakes-to-salida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodpeeps.com\/ProbablyLost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}