On Today's Efforts

Today I bought three new toothbrushes; one for my special paste, one for my regular paste, and one for when I'm well again. I threw out my old one, and am cleaning my other mouth things in boiling water regularly. I will further buy a new waterbottle tomorrow. I've now been taking the medicine for over 24hrs, and it's only gotten worse, but I'm going with the idea that it merely needs a while to become effective. It now is extremely painful, pretty much making it impossible for me to do readings and such (too distracting), and I'm on the it's-too-painful-to-eat-so-I'm-not diet. In addition to general pain and swelling and discolouration.. it is now peeling off. Which is all very lovely. My hope is that I wake up tomorrow and it's considerably better. If it's not improved by next Tuesday (a week from my doctor appointment) I'll definitely be back in.